Donald Trump has confirmed that he wore compression socks to treat his cankles amid growing scrutiny over his health as America’s oldest president.
In an explosive interview about his medical treatments, Trump also admitted that he applies makeup to his hands, saying that the large daily dose of aspirin he takes to thin his blood causes them to bruise easily.
The Daily Beast has led the way in reporting on Trump’s efforts to hide his swollen ankles and the globs of makeup on his hands. Other media outlets largely ignored these issues, and the president and his inner circle have adamantly denied that he had any problems.
But in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Trump said he wore medical compression socks to help with swelling in his ankles.
He can’t remember when he’s supposed to lie about shit.
One of these days we’ll stop electing 80+ year old dementia patients to run America
No we wont. The uneducated will continue to believe what Fox, Facebook, and X tell them to believe.
America has an idiot problem, and it wasnt an accident.
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Yes, they will
But you realize we can educate people right?
Like, someone that uneducated today only stays uneducated if no one educated them, and whether or not you want to “help” them, we’re all better off if we educate them.
Teaching critical thinking is really a “childhood only” thing, it’s very hard to get that into people after their minds are set and there are fallacies at work keeping them attached to their opinions.
Growing up in the 90s, we had classes in “media consumption” that taught you how to examine the claims made and the sources behind them. Rule #1 - news should be dispassionate, if you’re hearing something passionate, it’s not news.
Looking back I realize our teachers saw the information wars coming, and decided to do something about it. Sadly my parents never got this education and so every Facebook meme is true in their eyes.
it’s very hard to get that into people after their minds are set and there are fallacies at work keeping them attached to their opinions
Brain plasiticy doesn’t come into play until the mid to late 60s…
It’s why it’s acceptable to give up on a 70 year old boomer, but not really anyone else.
There’s a concerning amount of accounts arguing we need to write off teenagers that were dumb enough to vote trump before their brains have even finished developing.
Point being, giving up on voters is only good for a very small demographic.
One of these days we’ll stop electing 80+ year old dementia patients to run America
Boooooring
Whoever asked the monkey paw for “interesting times” is a fucking dick
When the boomers are dead
I doubt it. With the caveat that unless Donvict and pals completely fuck up/stall out/reverse breakthroughs in medicine - dementia may become a thing of the past, I suppose.
But I seriously doubt there is any substantive difference between people born between arbitrary years, labeled “boomers”, and any other set of people born between arbitrary years.
You haven’t been paying attention. Trump gained younger voters in 2024. He didn’t need “boomers” to become President. He needed money, lies, and young men to vote for him, which they did.
Maybe covid changed things enough but I wouldn’t be surprised if what happened with his first term happened again. Basically when I was in highschool circa 2016 there was a solid group of guys who supported him by the time we graduated in 2018 that had more or less evaporated, and amongst my friends the opinions shifted from ambivalent at worst to outright venomous at best by 2020. But then again we’re all on the older half of gen z so we overlap with millennials on a lot of things, perhaps it’s another generation jones situation.
Largely due to a psy-op using “new media” and influencers.
we’re about to get 10 years of the couch fucker, come hook or crook.
Trump is 79.
Trump is 79.
Concrete thinking and literalism are no match for hyperbolic speech, you robot.
That’s not a foot, it’s 11.5 inches.
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You do realize the president is elected to a four year term, right?
Elect him at 78, and you signed up for 2 years of a president over 80.
Like, I’m not sure if the issue here is the concept that time progresses linearly, or cause and effect.
But those are really the only two things we need here, so it’s got a be one of them.
I have 80 year old grandparents. Love em to death. It blows my mind thinking of anybody that age running the country.
runningruining the countryftfy
Raiding.
So he definitely had that stroke
If he bruises easily are they sure blood thinners are a good idea? I’m all for regime change through internal haemorrhage, but this once again sounds like bullshit.
Well, it’s either blood thinners or death by stroke/infarction. The man’s blood must be like mollases without the thinners, he eats like shit and barely exercises, except the golfing trips.
I don’t care if he dies from a stroke or from a heart attack, as long as he gets on with it.
Yet, Bernie “was too old” by the “polls” and the DNC but he could have won but instead they put up Hillary and again Kamala?!?! MONEY!
Drumpf has ONLY won against women, who would have thought?!
And Bernie is still out there holding strong with no ailments and still having AMERICAN VOTERS VOICES HEARD FIRST! It’s so upsetting watching the fall of America into oligarchs and fascism!! Fuck both parties!
Time to clean house and drain the swamp plus set term limits!! Get it together America, it’s embarrassing!!!
Drumpf has ONLY won against women, who would have thought?!
A woman could’ve beaten Trump. Just not a neoliberal one.
Bernie DID have a heart attack…
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2019/10/05/bernie-sanders-had-a-heart-attack-doctors-say
He could easily go years this way. His brain will be Swiss cheese, but Miller is running things anyway.
Lmao is he really America’s oldest president now? Finally?
No, he’s 4 years younger than Biden, who was 82 at the end of his term. Trump turns 80 this year.
Unless the fucker is dead or aggressively dying, I’m not really interested in this recurring story.
Can an oldpeopleologist tell us what kind of term length we’re looking at here based offa those bruises
“Gerontologist”. 😉
There is a word for everything
That’s less fun
Wow. Who knew he wore makeup?!
I take two legit bloodthinners, clopidogrel (Plavix) and apixaban (Eliquis) and I don’t get bruises like that. Of course my highest dose of aspirin was also 81mg, they took me off that when they added clopidogrel.
OTOH I’m also not 80 damn years old…
Soon.
Don’t give us hope.
I mean, isn’t he still lying? I bet they stick him with some kind of juice in those spots on his hands. They’re in the same spot on both.
Those spots are really common locations for access to veins in older patients. Also as people age their blood vessels become a lot more fragile, especially the veins, and will break at the slightest damage, especially when he’s on blood thinners too.
But yeah they are definitely giving him some sort of IV medication or fluids.
Paywall.
So… Can any medical expert tell us if this sets any life expectancy limits?
All the way up to the end of his term.
