That’s not just makeup. It looks like a layer of Tegaderm with makeup on top. Pretty sure that’s what’s is used on his hand too. Maybe there’s a version used by makeup artists, or it’s just the off-the-shelf medical stuff. You can see on him if you zoom in how the texture on it is different - kind of wrinkled.
That would certainly lend credence to the hypothesis that the back of his hand is being used as an IV site.
True, but it’s also just a good surface to slather makeup on. Smooths out the crustiness. You can get it in sheets without the gauze.
Further contrasts between the Biden and Trump presidencies:
Joe Biden had a skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma) removed during his time in office and it was matter-of-factly reported by the White House.
Trump’s skin lesions (including the probable neck pre-/in situ squamous cell carcinoma) have been obfuscated by a captive medical staff.
That illustrates the difference between the Biden presidency and the Cult of the Leader.
*Trump’s lesion(s) might also have provided a good teaching moment about the value of sunscreen, except that would have necessitated candor, as well as going against MAHA claims that sunscreen is dangerous.
And Jimmy Carter had hemorrhoid surgery.
“Doesn’t it seem odd that Ronald Reagan had an operation on his ass and George Bush had an operation on his middle finger?” -George Carlin
Reagan, too, from his nose.
Joe Biden had Reagan removed from his nose? ![]()
That just triggered a memory in me. Fifty-odd years ago I spent three weeks in Europe galavanting here and there in a Eurail pass. When I got off the train in Cologne one afternoon I could hear church bells ringing. After a few minutes I realized they were ringing changes, a pattern where every every bell in a set is rung in every order. Intrigued I walked over to the cathedral and found someone important to the church had died and they were in the process of burying him that afternoon.
The funeral procession included priests, nuns, and bretheren from all over the world and the graveyard next to the cathedral where the open grave was waiting had only about a dozen graves in it. Even as a strong agnostic I found it quite moving. I have since found out that changes are rung as a celebration. For example, churches all over England rang changes on VE day and for the opening of the 2012 Olympics.
Anyway, to bring this to relevance, do Catholic and Anglican cathedrals celebratory ring changes? If so could they do it right after the announcement of his nibs’ as a celebration?
Seriously? What is their beef with sunscreen?
I have friends who ring bells (changes) as a hobby. You need to gather several people to do it. So unless the announcement was predicted in advance, no. But they could certainly do it for the funeral. Probably even a day or three after the announcement. And maybe, possibly, if a group of bell ringers was already scheduled to meet, they could pivot right away.
They claim it causes cancer.
Well, I’ve known several people with skin cancer, and none of them wore sunscreen. That’s why they got skin cancer. Those MAHAs are so messed up.
Did science tell you something? Did medicine tell you something? Then we will do the opposite to prove them wrong. Waahhhhh!!! ![]()
Using sunscreen is an admission of weakness.
Can I Pit this thread? I’m tired of seeing “Trump is dying”….Sure he’s dying and someday the prediction will be true and we can smugly say we were right….even if its years from now, because SOMEDAY, it will happen.
Clearly it wasn’t as imminent as was originally thought. Now this thread has just become a stupid farce of itself.
There used to be a problem with sunscreen that it blocked the frequencies of light that cause sunburn, but not some other frequencies that cause cancer. So by encouraging people to spend more time soaking up dangerous rays, they actually did increase the risk of cancer.
I’m pretty sure that issue was addressed a couple of decades ago, though.
The subtlety of that argument is beyond Trump, RFK Jr and your average MAGA. They don’t want to use sunscreen because someone smarter than them told them it was good for them. That’s it.
Thanks, that seems vaguely familiar, but, yeah, it was ages ago that it was fixed.