OP: Is this a factual question, asking whether an ear can fully heal? I don’t know if there’s ever been any pictures of the injury itself in the hours after it happened, so it could be a tiny nick that just bled a lot. Or, a bigger nick, with some good plastic surgery.
Any photos at all of the actual damage done might help determine whether a man of his age could totally recover with what seems to be no visible damage whatsoever.
There must be magical healing properties in maxi-pads.
Two possibilities are that he’s wearing make-up to conceal the scar or that the photo was retouched to eliminate the scar.
If those existed, I’m sure we would have all seen them by now.
Both are certainly possible, although the latter is less probable due to the unflattering aspects of the photo itself.
Could it be that - like a lot of photos on the internet - it has been reversed,
and that’s actually his left ear ?
That could be possible.
Would Time use retouched photos or flip an image?
I have just seen photos of Trump’s ear (Googling “phots of Trump’s ear damage) after it had been shot and, while there does seem to be a bit a blood, I really can’t see much (if any) damage to the ear itself.
Trump actually complained that Time retouched the photo to make his hair disappear, so any retouching to make his ear seem whole seems doubtful.
I had assumed it was just a tiny nick. Even very small cuts can bleed a lot, especially on the head. And it didn’t look like all that much blood to me.
He also said the “M” in Time was a crown thingy.
Proves he cannot read.
The ear? Ears bleed. Ever had a Beagle get a nick, looks like a murder scene. Trump ain’t a Beagle but he has old man, low hanging ears. He got a nick, notch or clip in the ear. And lived to invent a tiny MyPillow for his ear.
5.56mm bullets are surprisingly small (in fact, they’re just 5.56 millimeters across). Unless they meet some resistance, they don’t actually make that big of a hole or a furrow. Their damage comes from their speed, not their mass.
The size of a needle used for ear piercing is usually between 0.8 mm and 1.0 mm, and the effect is visible for quite a while.
The needle also goes through the fleshiest part of the ear. Most of the rest is cartilage, and while cartilage heals slowly, it heals from the skin inward, so the wound is much less visible.
The effect of the wound healing around an earring post is visible for quite a while. That’s much different.
No need to move the hidden posts, thanks.
There are, but they wear off after 28 days.
I recently nicked my right ear on the helix. It was about 1 cm. and bled despite my applying pressure for maybe 30 minutes. There was a scab for 3-4 days, and by the two-week mark, you couldn’t tell there’d ever been an injury. OK, that’s anecdotal and so not much help.
After Trump was hit and treated, his then-doctor (now Congressman), Ronny Jackson, said the injury was 2 centimeters long and went down to the cartilage. (I read this in WaPo, I think, but have since canceled my subscription.)That isn’t very deep, since the skin is rather thin there.
New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi said she examined Trump’s ear in early August. He tapped the spot where the wound was.
“The particular spot that he identified with his tap was pristine,” Nuzzi wrote. “I scanned carefully the rest of the terrain. It looked normal and incredible and fine.”
Nuzzi later added: “An ear had never appeared to have gone through less. Except there, on the tiniest patch of this tiny sculpture of skin, a minor distortion that resembled not a crucifixion wound but the distant aftermath of a sunburn.”
It sounds like a very minor graze. If it didn’t damage the cartilage, I could see it showing no scars this long after the injury. Obviously IANAD.