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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.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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

[-] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I wonder if his dementia will progress to the point where he starts inadvertently reliving old, sick Epstein memories while live

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

"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.

[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

....

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.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago
[-] blackbearjesus27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That’s not a foot, it’s 11.5 inches.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

...

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.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Trump is 79.

Concrete thinking and literalism are no match for hyperbolic speech, you robot.

[-] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe if the the Daily Beast would include his age in the headline of every single article then OC would have gotten it correct.

[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

One of these days we'll stop electing 80+ year old dementia patients to run America

Boooooring

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Whoever asked the monkey paw for "interesting times" is a fucking dick

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