The president had yet another strange mark on his hands over Christmas, once again raising concerns that his health is not what he has claimed it to be.
Donald Trump—the oldest person to ever be elected president—was photographed with what appeared to be another bruise on Christmas Eve, this time marring his left hand.
The 79-year-old has repeatedly claimed that he is in pristine condition, brushing off public alarm over his deteriorating body.
I’m not “concerned” or “alarmed” that he may be in poor health.
I’m cautiously hopeful that he may be in poor health.
However he goes I just hope he shits his pants live on TV first
didn’t he already piss his pants once?
I am commenting just because I take issue with the headline. The bruise did not spread to his other hand. He has a bruise on one hand and a separate bruise on another hand. There’s no spreading because that’s not how a bruise works. It’s not fucking contagious.
I don’t want to think about any part of his body whatsoever, but he does generally wear a shirt and jacket so we don’t see his arms or chest. It’s possible that the bruise on his hand did literally spread to the other hand via his arms and torso.
They were being snarky.
You are using entirely the wrong sense of the word. It didn’t spread like a rash, it spread like an idea. It spread like a bad smell. It spread like a poorly kept secret.
Like an extra airy fart in a hot, humid room.
For sure. I do understand how it was used, but it still sounds stupid. Just write, “Bruise appears on Trump’s other hand—speculations rise” or something to that effect.
Edit: I think in a world where people just read the headlines, and with many Americans reading at a low level, that people might take it more literally which I why I don’t like the headline as written.
And to forestall your next objection, headlines ARE poetry. It’s a form of constrained writing with hundreds of years of poetic conventions and devices.
It’s the kind of poetry a Vogon would produce after his second Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Source : Took journalism in school and it fucked up my ACTs.
Imagine a world with no poetry. How horrid. Let stupid people be confused, they are perfectly used to it and have a faculty for it you cannot defeat.
I hear what you’re saying, but let poetry be in poems and let direct truth be in headlines. I don’t see a reason to pretty up news.
Damn it, your predictable knee jerk response was almost faster than I could anticipate. That’s how basic you’re being right now.
You cannot fit “truth” in an entire broadsheet page, let alone a headline. That is why it is unavoidably poetic. I’m not making an analogy, headlines literally are poetry.
Some people speculate is dementia drug infusions.
I did work for about a year doing pharm research for Alzheimer’s. Most of those drugs are infusions.
However. None of them stop or reverse loss.
They just slow it down And they aren’t even that effective. Honestly the data I saw… My opinion was. :
-Desperate people are going to pay this $1200 a month infusion cost for literally no benefit and extra risks.
Based on the documents I read, for one of the drugs we were testing (I forget the drug but I recall it’s already used to treat ALS)-
The dosage needed to cause a change in Alzheimer’s would have a serious health risk of brain bleeding.
The dose we were using was like 1/3 of the expected effectiveness dosage.
I thought this was kind of unethical because people signed up to be in the study with the hope of a medicine that would help them. And that’s how it was presented to them.
However. The study was really just trying to see how much brain bleeding occured at 1/3 dose.
With zero expectations for actual effectiveness on slowing down the progress.
I did not like the ethical issues with this line of work.
Anywho I have gotten on a tangent.
The other thing I wanted to say is , if these drugs are to have any effects in slowing (but none stop or reverse , just to be 100% clear on this), then the person MUST start them with early symptoms. What is called “mild cognitive impairment”.
They do nothing if symptoms are already noticeable.
And most people don’t realize they have dementia until it’s already moderate because they mask their symptoms. Or their symptoms are often excused because “pops/Mom is getting old and that’s normal”.
Its progressive.
Slow at first. And most don’t notice until it’s gotten pretty bad.
Trump almost certainly has fronto temporal dementia.
I’m not the only neuroscientist to say so.
I’m not clinical but I did work with dementia patients. Plus many clinicians are saying the same.
He’s got classic text ook symptoms.
People excuse his word salad because it slowly got worse.
But read out loud anything he writes or says.
It’s nonsense. That’s not normal. Read this and it’s a good example of Trump’s speech patterns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logorrhea_(psychology)&wprov=rarw1
-In a more extreme version of logorrhea aphasia, a clinician asked a male patient, also with Wernicke’s aphasia, what brought him to the hospital. The patient responded:
-Is this some of the work that we work as we did before? … All right … From when wine [why] I’m here. What’s wrong with me because I … was myself until the taenz took something about the time between me and my regular time in that time and they took the time in that time here and that’s when the time took around here and saw me around in it’s started with me no time and I bekan [began] work of nothing else that’s the way the doctor find me that way …[5]
I feel like I can actually get a somewhat of a sense of what this person is trying to communicate though. It seems like there’s an actual idea underneath all the confusion. With Trump, I’m not so sure that’s the case.
Then you also know he could go another 10 years like this. I’m not optimistic about an election; I think he’s in power until he whiffs his last Adderall. His handlers have a stake in this. They’ll keep him barely ambulatory for as long as they can, because the orders he’s signing and the countries he’s attacking are all Miller.
its the worst version of Weekend and Bernies ever.
gonna be honest, i think the drug accelerates als.
I’ve lost track of the Trump period calendar going into the holidays, but my bet remains:
https://www.verywellhealth.com/injectable-alzheimers-drugs-8776312
In the open-label trial of subcutaneous Leqembi, 8% of patients experienced reactions at the injection site, and most side effects were mild or moderate, according to Eisai.
People who take Leqembi and Kisunla are required to get an MRI brain scan once a quarter to check for signs of brain damage, such as swelling and bleeding. Such amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) can occur when someone uses a drug designed to clear amyloid. Most ARIA are asymptomatic or cause mild symptoms, but some ARIA require hospitalization and special treatment.
Eisai reported that people who received subcutaneous injections had slightly higher rates of ARIA than those who got an IV infusion, but the sample size of the injection group was small enough that an exact comparison can’t be made.
Trumps’ been on this 28 day schedule of being very peppy, then dragging ass, then being practically dead, then getting his pep back. It lines up with the visual symptoms we see with his hands. He’s also on his like, 3rd or 4th “annual”* MRI for the year.
*there is no annual MRI
This person is not fit and should be in a home.
if by home you mean prison
if by prison you mean ham
Haha in America many are similar.
Hope he’s suffering from that ❤️
If we’re lucky, we might start 2026 with a state funeral~
There will be worldwide celebrations the likes we haven’t seen since the end of WW II.
It fear it will be the same as with Charlie Kirk. A very loud minority along with an army of AI social media users will agressively threaten anyone who says that the death was not a huge loss.
I plan on celebrating that illustrious day, but I do think we need to temper expectations a bit. I am truly not convinced it will actually change much. Trump is a symptom not the mastermind.
Yes, but Trump is the figurehead of a cult of personality and those never survive the loss of their face. There are enough loose cannons and outright insane people within the conservative political sphere that even if there is some kind of secret master plan on what to do after Trump is gone, once the inevitable shitstorm of internal backstabbing starts as everyone desperately scrambles to put themselves at the top it’s likely to all go down in flames.
The RWA (Right Wing Authoritarian) personality type is notorious about lining up behind a figure they deem as “strong”, though. Suggested reading: Bob Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians.
So I guess we’ll see.
Here’s hoping you’re right.
The entire house of cards might not fall, but at least maybe the east wing.
I’ve said it before, but when that headline comes through, I’m going to buy a flag pole, a flag, and raise that thing to the top. I’ll remove all of it after the half staff order ends, but I want everyone that drives by to know just how I feel.
I do wonder how many of those we may be seeing…
If Republicans and centrists and some so-called leftists and liberals clutch their pearls over it - first of all, FUCK THEM. But, secondly, remind them that the conservatives are the ones that raised the flags for Donvict’s inauguration even though Carter was being remembered by having flags at half-mast just prior.
This is the party that lowered flags for that POS of Charlie Kirk. Some people just don’t deserve this honor.
Famous people seem to die on New Years Eve a lot, although it probably just seems that way cause of cognitive bias. People die every day
The White House previously said that Trump’s hand looked that way because he shook so many hands. So, how can they explain it on his left hand? Did he get it from jerking off two horses at once or something?
Someone has a case of the Mondays.
If Jack helped you off a horse, would you help Jack off a horse?
Don’t be ridiculous. He doesn’t jerk horses off. He doesn’t do anything for anyone else.
I believe that there is nothing Donald Trump wouldn’t do if you paid him enough money.
Yes but then again, he’s doing it for himself right?
Jerking off Bill Clinton in one hand, Putin in the other.
It’s Epsteiniensus.
I do hope it’s serious
Some people are claiming it’s from his Alzheimer’s treatment. I had a senior family member who had bruises on and off for decades, people are looking way too much into this. It’s like talking about Putin’s cancer when they are going to be given the best treatment there is on Earth to treat it.
People are claiming his mental faculties are failing when the truth is he’s just a compulsive egotistical manipulative liar who doesn’t care about being right as long as he sounds right. He will make bullshit up on the spot so that the ignorant who rely on the flimsiest of social cues will think he actually knows what he is talking about. This is false hope, just like the Epstein files. He won’t just topple over, he needs more opposition than he is getting.
I’m not a firm believer of any terminal diagnosis from armchair experts but pinning everything to “just a liar” is also off the mark. You can just look at his behavior and speech patterns over the past decade: he has good and bad days but the bad days are definitely getting worse.
There’s also other verifiable symptoms like his facial droop episodes, leg fluid swelling, these bruises, incontinence, etc… It all adds up to a pretty bleak outlook. High quality healthcare can do a lot for a relatively fit middle aged man, it does less when you’re trying to prop up an obese octogenarian already showing bad symptoms.
When you’re going through regular intravenous treatments, using one arm or another puts stress on the local vascular system, so they switch arms after some time to not cause issues.
This suuurrreee looks like he’s been getting intravenous infusions of some sort. Probably not Chemo because they’d install a port to prevent this exact kind of problem.
I’m sure you’re wrong. He’s just switched to shaking with his other hand.
/s
Probably Leqembi for his Alzheimer’s, although I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s regularly having parts of his blood volume replaced or run through dialysis.
Didn’t he accuse the left of taking injections of young people’s blood?
Every accusation is a confession.
Old fuck donald had a mark, P-A-E-D-O.
Biden stepped away from politics because of his waning health. It’s interesting to notice the difference in ethics between codgers
Maybe he’s stroking Bubba too hard and injuring his hands in the process.
He’s mainlining Leqembi in both arms now.
