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
“Gerontologist”. 😉
That’s less fun
There is a word for everything
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.
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.
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?
All the way up to the end of his term.
A straight jacket might help him with an allover compression!
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
I have no problem believing someone would be ruining the country if they were in charge.
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
Trump is 79.
Trump is 79.
Concrete thinking and literalism are no match for hyperbolic speech, you robot.
Maybe if the the Daily Beast would include his age in the headline of every single article then OC would have gotten it correct.
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.
When the boomers are dead
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.
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.
I wonder if his dementia will progress to the point where he starts inadvertently reliving old, sick Epstein memories while live
If I remember correctly, it was known before his first presidency that he walked in on underaged girls changing. Also, “grab them by the pussy”. He’s extremely obviously been a shitty person for a long time and it literally does not matter at all
His ascending to public knowledge was for being a racist prick when he was renting out his daddy’s properties landing him in legal trouble. This man has never been good.
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.
Ewww… No one wants to see the hard toadie.
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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.
if you think you can just educate people into not supporting trump, listen to The Necessary Conversation podcast. these people care more abt “winning” than being right
Those podcast episodes make me angry and depressed at the same time.
these people care more abt “winning” than being right
They need taught something?!?!?
Clearly that’s more than enough reason not to attempt to teach them anything…
If we taught things to people who don’t those things, just think of the horror!
Obviously our time is best spent telling others not to try anything and just fucking give up. Maybe listen to some fucking podcasts and pat ourselves on the back about how we’re intrinsically better? We won’t fix anything that way, but it makes you feel superior and that’s why the billionaires have spent so much effort into you having these views you think are your own
I know this is harsh, but wake the fuck up, we need all hands on deck.
you must not have much personal experience with these people. at some point you gotta know how far you can get with them, otherwise you will burn out and become horrendously cynical. btw i never said we should just give up and listen to podcasts. im just offering you a window into a family split down maga vs progressive lines and how they (the magats) will do anything to justify their position rather than listen and absorb new information.
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
Hope he lives to 150 so America finally gets what it deserves.
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.
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
A heart attack is not an ailment. It’s like getting bruised: certain people in certain situations are more likely to get it, but it’s not a disease or condition and just randomly happens. everybody gets heart attacks
Speaking as someone who has had two, it’s an ongoing medical condition. 😉
Apparently I was wrong: Most heart attacks are caused by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary_artery_disease . The article says that Bernie Sanders doesn’t have heart disease nor familial history of it, though. Hope you live long!
Unless the fucker is dead or aggressively dying, I’m not really interested in this recurring story.
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.”
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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.
Daily Beast is such a cope cringe mess
“the dictator is a poopy head” vibes
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Every person that age takes many MANY pills to keep going each day.
