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.
Can an oldpeopleologist tell us what kind of term length we’re looking at here based offa those bruises
Wow. Who knew he wore makeup?!
Soon.
Don’t give us hope.
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.
Lmao is he really America’s oldest president now? Finally?
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.
runningruining the countryftfy
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!
Raiding.
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.
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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.
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.
Largely due to a psy-op using “new media” and influencers.
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.
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.
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.
