As the new year unfolds, whispers of mortality have shadowed Donald Trump with unusual intensity. On the final days of December, a gathering of Peruvian shamans in Lima made an audacious prediction: the 79-year-old US president faces serious health challenges ahead in 2026. Yet beyond the mystical prognostications lies a far more substantive concern—one grounded in observable reality and mounting medical speculation from serious academic researchers.
The shamans' claim carries limited scientific legitimacy, admittedly. Nevertheless, their track record occasionally aligns with reality. In 2023, they accurately predicted that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, then imprisoned for human rights abuses, would die within twelve months; he passed away in September 2024 at the age of 86.
