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Trump, 79, finally admits he’s wearing compression socks and makeup to hide how sick he is
(www.thedailybeast.com)
Wow. Who knew he wore makeup?!
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Can an oldpeopleologist tell us what kind of term length we're looking at here based offa those bruises
His skin is so thin that...
Indeed it is
Soon.
Don't give us hope.
Lmao is he really America's oldest president now? Finally?
So he definitely had that stroke
How does this confirm a stroke? Genuinely asking
So he already showed signs of it months ago and now he's on doses of aspirin for blood thinning so intense his hands are covered in bruises. It's unlikely they'd prescribe such a high dose unless he had a serious need for blood thinning such as a history of arterial blockage
It doesn't. You can have this sort of bruising for all sorts of reasons.
He still probably did have a stroke though.
Million dollar scam idea: sell MAGA hand makeup.
Along with cankle socks.
Great. Now release ALL of the Epstein files.
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.
Tbf he says that he bruises easily because he takes massive amounts of aspirin as a blood thinner. Against doctors' advice if I read that correctly.
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.
I have 80 year old grandparents. Love em to death. It blows my mind thinking of anybody that age running the country.
~~running~~ ruining the country
ftfy
It blows my mind thinking of anybody that age running the country.
They're not the sharpest anymore. But personally I have a bigger problem with Trump's personality and lack of ethics, regardless of age.
Also imagine your grandpa (or -ma!) using that makeup for - what? Hide that you're old? It doesn't work!
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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
we're about to get 10 years of the couch fucker, come hook or crook.
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.
....
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.
I wonder if his dementia will progress to the point where he starts inadvertently reliving old, sick Epstein memories while live
Ewww... No one wants to see the hard toadie.
I think this is a big reason they're so desperate for people to stop talking about it...
trump would admit to wild shit a decade ago, he's undoubtedly worse now. Someone asking him ""what's the youngest woman who's slept with you?" In a "nice" manner would likely get him to just openly admit to raping a child.
If it's not phrased in a way that he gets defensive, he's liable to just fucking answer.
"What is the age of your youngest partner?" would be a great question for him to be asked, and a skillful interviewer could absolutely get him to answer with pride about his misdeeds as he describes several instances of varying levels of horror before arriving at the single event he thinks TACOs all.
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He could easily go years this way. His brain will be Swiss cheese, but Miller is running things anyway.
Why would he admit to it now, and for a large outlet like WSJ? We all got used to him lying about it endlessly.
edit: taking a closer look at the original article, there really is no reason for conspiratorial thought: it's just an old man babbling.
PS: the pictures of his hands are horrendous.
PPS:
He insisted in the interview that he is in excellent shape and puts it down to “good genetics.”
What good genetics look like:
He is increasingly disinhibited, it's one of the things that happens in old age as time takes its toll on brain functions. Really old people will just say whatever, a lot like drunk people do.
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.
Trump said he wore medical compression socks to help with swelling in his ankles.
He also sleeps in a straitjacket to help with his swelling dementia.
Paywall.
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.
Assuming he actually takes aspirin, he's not lying, he's misdirecting: the infusions cause bruising, the aspirin makes it more noticable.
Don't you think they're sticking him a lot though? For them to go to a noticeable place, they've probably tried all other locations. My guess is that they fluid him up every day with either electrolytes or some kind of dementia meds. He's wearing a bandaid, they may even have a permanent stint in there.
It depends on what type of treatment he's getting and whether it requires an IV or an infusion. There's speculation that he's getting infusions for Alzheimer's (either Leqembi or Kisunla); both treatments would explain the bruising on his hands, and also require periodic checks with an MRI.
So... Can any medical expert tell us if this sets any life expectancy limits?
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A straight jacket might help him with an allover compression!
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