# Trump has been diagnosed with Chronic Venous Insufficiency
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Tags:** trump
**Created:** [July 17, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991 "2025-07-17T18:36:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/41 "2025-07-17T23:10:21Z")
Really, I would’ve much preferred an official diagnosis of dementia, just to put an end to all the speculation on that front.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/42 "2025-07-17T23:19:07Z")
I just know that some reporter is going to say “chronic penis insufficiency.”
BTW, that one picture where his ankles were visible suggested pitting edema to me, which is a sign of congestive heart failure.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/43 "2025-07-17T23:19:17Z")
Blood thinners are sometimes prescribed in cases of CVI, to prevent phlebitis and other clotting issues. Aspirin is a blood thinner, but it’s possible he’s on something stronger, like warfarin or Plavix. Being on a blood thinner would explain the bruising.
DVT is a risk for people who fly commercial because you’re forced to sit for long periods in a cramped seat. I’m sure Trump doesn’t have those restrictions on Air Force One.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/44 "2025-07-17T23:19:46Z")
You can move this to the Pit if you wish. I actually considered posting it there to begin with.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/45 "2025-07-17T23:58:54Z")
Gavin Newsom, Please Please Please tweet _“Sorry about the diagnosis! Hey, I almost forgot about Epstein!”_
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/46 "2025-07-18T00:05:46Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#):
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> Be still my heart.
No, no, wrong heart to be still.
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### Author:  [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/47 "2025-07-18T00:10:16Z")
> [@Broomstick](#):
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> One can purchase compression stockings that don’t look like medically issued compression stockings.
I bet they have a Superman one.
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### Author:  [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/48 "2025-07-18T00:11:25Z")
My husband is 73, only takes one baby aspirin, once a day, and he has extensive bruising all over his hands and arms.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/49 "2025-07-18T00:39:45Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> …suggested pitting edema to me, which is a sign of congestive heart failure.
Oh you tease.
Didn’t I hear something a while back about Melania being some sort of food coach, resulting in Don having a bit of weight loss?
Golfing: no more carts. Gotta walk. No more portable toilets (apparently wheeled from hole to hole). Have to walk back to clubhouse for voiding. Pick up the tennis racquet again. Run about 20 miles a day.
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### Author:  [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/50 "2025-07-18T00:44:18Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#):
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> Golfing: no more carts. Gotta walk. No more portable toilets (apparently wheeled from hole to hole). Have to walk back to clubhouse for voiding. Pick up the tennis racquet again. Run about 20 miles a day.
Are you kidding me? If he had this routine, he’d already be dead. Remember in season 1 of Andor when that fat greasy Imperial was forced to help with a gold heist and after about ten minutes of hard cardio he straight up died? That would be Trump. I bet he doesn’t even tie his own shoes.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/51 "2025-07-18T00:47:40Z")
> [@DWMarch](#):
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> …about ten minutes of hard cardio he straight up died? That would be Trump.
Egg-ZAK-t’lay (as said by M. Palin when threatening to take a problemmatic train route)
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/52 "2025-07-18T00:49:16Z")
**Moderating:**
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> You can move this to the Pit if you wish. I actually considered posting it there to begin with.
Given that it’s once again slipped to the side of various insults not directly related to the diagnosis, I think it’s for the best.
As we are now in the Pit, you may all disregard my prior modnote about rants and insults.
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### Author:  [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/53 "2025-07-18T00:57:30Z")
Fuckin’ A!
Fuck you, Trump! Even your own body hates you.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/54 "2025-07-18T01:01:01Z")
🆙 ⬆
Discourse, Fuckin A!
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/55 "2025-07-18T01:04:56Z")
If what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, I’m rooting for him not getting stronger.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/56 "2025-07-18T01:05:25Z")
Ahem, now that we’re in a forum that I don’t have to play fair in ( 😉 ) may I add that I hope Trump goes with the same sort of unproven and dangerous treatments he always recommends for others, instead of the way he always secures the most expensive and effective ones for himself. And that as they don’t wish to gainsay him, that his various doctors let him -do- it. Perhaps a lovely course of leeches (though they may avoid him from professional courtesy) or other advanced bloodletting techniques?
😈
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### Author:  [@TheBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBryan)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/57 "2025-07-18T01:10:47Z")
Well you know that this is a coverup. You don’t just develop this one day. They’ve been hiding this for years, and they’ve been using a robot double to fill in for him during flare ups.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/58 "2025-07-18T01:14:11Z")
Swollen ankles? That’s a symptom of pregnancy, right? If he has the abortion in DC can he be arrested when he returns to Florida?
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### Author:  [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/59 "2025-07-18T01:26:40Z")
“chronic venous insufficiency”
Ha! You’re officially insufficient, you orange fucking prick! Take yer pills or you get no ketchup, ya shitty toddler!
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991/60 "2025-07-18T01:45:48Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#):
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> I hope Trump goes with the same sort of unproven and dangerous treatments he always recommends for others…
I think he needs to consult RFK Jr about treatments.
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