@mastodonmigration @aral oh no, people have been speculating about this for ages to varying degrees of seriousness, including me. (See: https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1861131.html - Speedrunning Howard Hughes)

But there's also serious talk about his Vitamin K consumption, and what people who do the amount of K he does have also been consuming, I was just listening to a podcast talking about this.

But I also think that the importance of his decision that he'd rather have a dead son than a live daughter factors into the specific _expression_ of all his batshittery - particularly in terms of how he's made Twitter into an alt-right/fascist disinformation and propaganda fountain. I think a lot of it goes right back to that.