the instinct to mock Trump for appearing disabled comes, I think, from the same place as the instinct to make fun of him as queer/feminine or Russian—they're all ways of putting him in the box of "other" https://twitter.com/semperdiced/status/1274729331659386883

FDR is the clearest example of a disabled president, of course. but it's also worth noting that this photo of Kennedy—titled "The Loneliest Job" and often used as a means of illustrating the terrible burden of the office and masculine strength—is actually a portrait of disability

per George Tames, the photographer, Kennedy was standing that way not because the weight of the world was on his shoulders but because that posture eased his severe back pain