What’s the deal with the bruise?
I have seen at least two different reports that mention that Trump has a large bruise on his right hand.
I feel that the writers are trying to communicate something but I don’t now what it is. What’s the implication of having a bruise on your hand?
He’s trying to one-up Gorbachev?
Could he have gotten an IV without it getting leaked to the press?
IME people who take blood thinners, notably Coumadin (generic warfarin), often have big red or even black splotches on their hands. They are bruises, sort of, but they happen from the normal activities of life, like bumping your hand on something. Is this what y’all are talking about?
Gorbachev had a birthmark, as I recall.
BTW, I’d vote for Gorby over trump in a New York minute.
Yeah, pretty similar:
Perhaps that’s the PIC where he’s mainlining the stupid pills?
I’m no physician, but I don’t think there is, by itself, any implication of lower life expectancy or being unable to hold down a desk job.
This is from a good medical web site:
As mentioned, it could be due to the CVI he already admits to, although docs are disagreeing on whether this is likely. Another possibility is reaction to a NSAID drug like aspirin or ibuprofen. If I take either, I get a lot of bruising.
Yup. My father (twelve years Trump’s senior) has had those sorts of bruises on his hands and legs for years, due to being on blood-thinners. I suspect that part of the reason that those (and his swollen ankles) have gotten so much attention is that Trump’s critics see those as at odds with Trump’s and his sycophants’ insistence that he is incredibly, perfectly healthy.
This happens to me all the time, but usually just dime-sized. I’m always bumping my hands and arms on something. My PCP says it’s just something that happens as you age.
But I saw a meme that had a circle drawn around Trump’s bruise, with a picture of Queen Elizabeth II with a circle around her bruise. The meme said that the photo of the Queen was taken two days before she died.
ETA: My last aunt was on Coumadin. We visited her almost two years ago, and I saw the bruising. I think she lasted another year, dying in her 90s.
Yeah. Leaky veins aren’t good news, but are hardly signs of impending doom either. Seems like an age-appropriate side effect to non-medical me.
That, and the “cover up” is just such a perfect example of their fundamental incompetence. I can understand the urge to hide it, Trump is incredibly vain, after all, but who looks at that splotch of whatever it is on his hand, and thinks, “Nailed It!”? I’ve never even used makeup in my life and I’m pretty sure I could do a better job hiding it.
Remember, the person applying the makeup also has to cope with Trump’s ADHD. Trump won’t sit still long enough for them to do anything effective.
I don’t have a link handy but there was a recent video of Trump on the golf course where we could see a corresponding bruise on his left hand. So we at least know that the handshake excuse is an outright lie. I have a feeling that it is indeed from an IV and the reason it’s on both hands is because his right hand is no good for IV insertion any longer so they had to switch to the left.
Trump says Democratic donor Soros and son should be charged with corruption, offers no evidence
Conspiracy theorists and antisemites often focus on 95 year old George Soros, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden.
Some of the back and forth is here:
New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
Monarez was confirmed on July 29. So she managed just under three Scaramuccis, assuming they’ll lock her out of her office in the morning.
P.S. She was confirmed on a party line vote, so should Democrats applaud this? Probably not, because they’ll now put in someone worse, but I wanted to raise the question.
With the hell of war,
He’s come to grips.
Policing up the filter tips.
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier.
Courtesy of Tom Lehrer.
I missed this news story that came out on August 20:
My link suggests that the conflict of interest is tied to specific entities whose bonds Trump buys. But I think the bigger conflict concerns general interest rates. Lower the rates, and the higher the bond value. This probably explains why Trump is pressuring the Fed to lower interest rates — even though it would be inflationary.
I wonder how long the maturities are. This info could confirm where the conflicts of interest tend to lie.
Respectfully (to you, that is), so what?
Consider:
So? Those are the kind of securities a blind trust would likely buy.
If Trump had the government somehow plow a bunch of federal money into the New York Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, or even the too-big-to-fail banks mentioned, it is not going to noticeably push up the value of those bonds, because the paper is already low-risk. And protecting us from the kind of general economic collapse that would crash the credit rating of government bond issuers, and too-big-to-fail banks, isn’t a conflict of interest. A competent presidential administration should already do that. Meta might be an edge case, but Trump shouldn’t be trying to crash that company regardless, and helping it would push the stocks, not the bonds.
However, if Trump bought a miscellaneous boatload of, say, five year bonds, and then tried to push down interest rates for the rest of his term – as he is doing – that’s a major bit of self-dealing. And that’s why I put this in the compendium of horrors thread.
There’s one eye popping disgrace after another in this article about the guy in charge of readiness for the U.S. military:
When I said “so what?” I didn’t mean there would be no consequences, just that Trump wouldn’t care. IOW, he would say "so what?"