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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    I take two legit bloodthinners, clopidogrel (Plavix) and apixaban (Eliquis) and I don’t get bruises like that. Of course my highest dose of aspirin was also 81mg, they took me off that when they added clopidogrel.

    OTOH I’m also not 80 damn years old…

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        So he already showed signs of it months ago and now he’s on doses of aspirin for blood thinning so intense his hands are covered in bruises. It’s unlikely they’d prescribe such a high dose unless he had a serious need for blood thinning such as a history of arterial blockage

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        It doesn’t. You can have this sort of bruising for all sorts of reasons.

        He still probably did have a stroke though.

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    I have 80 year old grandparents. Love em to death. It blows my mind thinking of anybody that age running the country.

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      It blows my mind thinking of anybody that age running the country.

      They’re not the sharpest anymore. But personally I have a bigger problem with Trump’s personality and lack of ethics, regardless of age.

      Also imagine your grandpa (or -ma!) using that makeup for - what? Hide that you’re old? It doesn’t work!

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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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          if you think you can just educate people into not supporting trump, listen to The Necessary Conversation podcast. these people care more abt “winning” than being right

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            these people care more abt “winning” than being right

            They need taught something?!?!?

            Clearly that’s more than enough reason not to attempt to teach them anything…

            If we taught things to people who don’t those things, just think of the horror!

            Obviously our time is best spent telling others not to try anything and just fucking give up. Maybe listen to some fucking podcasts and pat ourselves on the back about how we’re intrinsically better? We won’t fix anything that way, but it makes you feel superior and that’s why the billionaires have spent so much effort into you having these views you think are your own

            I know this is harsh, but wake the fuck up, we need all hands on deck.

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

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        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.

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          “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.

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        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

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          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.

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

      Boooooring

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        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.

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          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.

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        I doubt it. With the caveat that unless Donvict and pals completely fuck up/stall out/reverse breakthroughs in medicine - dementia may become a thing of the past, I suppose.

        But I seriously doubt there is any substantive difference between people born between arbitrary years, labeled “boomers”, and any other set of people born between arbitrary years.

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        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.

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

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    If he bruises easily are they sure blood thinners are a good idea? I’m all for regime change through internal haemorrhage, but this once again sounds like bullshit.

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      Tbf he says that he bruises easily because he takes massive amounts of aspirin as a blood thinner. Against doctors’ advice if I read that correctly.

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      Well, it’s either blood thinners or death by stroke/infarction. The man’s blood must be like mollases without the thinners, he eats like shit and barely exercises, except the golfing trips.