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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    He could easily go years this way. His brain will be Swiss cheese, but Miller is running things anyway.

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    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

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      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.

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      One of these days we’ll stop electing 80+ year old dementia patients to run America

      Boooooring

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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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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.

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    I have 80 year old grandparents. Love em to death. It blows my mind thinking of anybody that age running the country.

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    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!!!

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      Drumpf has ONLY won against women, who would have thought?!

      A woman could’ve beaten Trump. Just not a neoliberal one.

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    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.

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      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.

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    Every person that age takes many MANY pills to keep going each day.

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      I’m at least in favor of leaving any of the stupid shit he destroyed or built as-is for another 250 years as a reminder of how fucking stupid we were.