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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's hand is missing a chunk of flesh..new speculations about his health
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"For the 1000th time. Were not alarmed. Were impatient"
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Girard442
(6,915 posts)COL Mustard
(8,380 posts)Hell live forever
wnylib
(26,432 posts)Harker
(18,120 posts)Silver Gaia
(5,424 posts)That shot is so blurry. All I see is a gnarled, wrinkly old guy hand.
John1956PA
(5,118 posts)It is believed by many that the backside of his right hand underwent trauma from insertion of IV needles. It is thought that he wore bandaging and makeup on it last year.
niyad
(133,971 posts)depression just to the left of center.
ratchiweenie
(8,240 posts)one to the left. This is not missing flesh, it is just old wrinkled skin.
bucolic_frolic
(55,767 posts)Looks like healed vein puncture to me
eShirl
(20,417 posts)malaise
(297,846 posts)31 days to the big 80
Xipe Totec
(44,587 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,974 posts)CanonRay
(16,250 posts)Response to Xipe Totec (Reply #32)
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zanana1
(6,519 posts)But it looks like a 79 year old hand to me.
3Hotdogs
(15,535 posts)Trueblue Texan
(4,599 posts)and notice the bruising is broader than previously. The makeup isnt stretched quite as far as the bruising. I wonder if he had some kind of incident with an IV.
obamanut2012
(29,507 posts)None.
That isn't from arthritis.
Orrex
(67,377 posts)Redleg
(7,026 posts)They have to be rubes to believe that Trump is Christ-like or an instrument of God (or god if you prefer).
Orrex
(67,377 posts)They already worship him; they happily equate him with Jesus, except that Jesus didnt suffer nearly as much (in their view).
wnylib
(26,432 posts)do all the same things Jesus did.
Redleg
(7,026 posts)I pride myself on my facility to swear in great vulgar torrents and to devise creative new combinations of filthy and derogatory terms. The problem is that I don't have the words to truly describe the absolute shit-fuckery of these worthless people.
indusurb
(342 posts)That's almost a perfect match, in miniature, of the scars I got in the crooks of both elbows from selling plasma twice a week for two years back in the eighties. Granted they were using twelve gauge needles on me, whereas they're using much smaller needles on Trump, but elderly skin doesn't heal as well and scars quicker.
Still he must be getting a heck of a lot of IV sticks for some malady or other. Look for one of those divots to show up on his left hand because once you get that kindof scar tissue it's tough and painful to get a needle through it.
Sympthsical
(11,106 posts)Which we kind of knew he was getting an IV for something.
That's just how that ends up looking sometimes.
But "chunk of flesh!" is certainly some clickbait.
Understandable that everyone's hopeful, but this doesn't look that unusual in someone hedging 80 who's had peripheral IVs.
I am dreadfully curious what he's being treated for. Of course there is tons of speculation, but even educated guesses are still diagnosing from afar. One imagines we'll find out someday. The people around him can't keep anything quiet ever for very long.
FakeNoose
(42,362 posts)I'm sure he's got age spots (former freckles) on his skin. That's partly why he wears that awful orange makeup on his face, but most people never think to cover age spots on the hands or arms.
yardwork
(69,585 posts)Separating this from Trump, what are some possible reasons for regular IV infusions in the hand over a long period of time?
I don't have much knowledge about this. Maybe...
Chemo infusions for cancer or an autoimmune disease? Or a weird woo-woo elixir of life treatment recommended by RFK, Jr.?
I would not be surprised if he's doing some kind of weird woo-woo treatment recommended by the weirdos around him.
dem4decades
(14,362 posts)The Madcap
(2,022 posts)NH Ethylene
(31,394 posts)I had one on my chest when I had cancer. I don't understand why they would repeatedly give him IVs in his hand when they could use a portal that's always available.
But I don't know much about this sort of thing.
Silver Gaia
(5,424 posts)Multiple hand IVs would be impractical for chemo infusions..
MustLoveBeagles
(17,184 posts)I wasn't seeing a missing chunk of flesh
Just an old dude's hand.
twodogsbarking
(19,300 posts)TheRickles
(3,526 posts)niyad
(133,971 posts)ahnakneemoose
(29 posts)niyad
(133,971 posts)sinkingfeeling
(58,023 posts)medical tests run on it. I've been told it's a known condition that can be the result of carpal tunnel. I even posted about it with photos a few months ago.
Srkdqltr
(9,930 posts)Trueblue Texan
(4,599 posts)Where the central tendon meets his cuff, there is definitely flesh missing. But it looks like its mostly healed. My guess is he had a bad experience with an IV.
Kid Berwyn
(25,035 posts)Oh well.
Johnny2X2X
(24,428 posts)There are types of chemo that can eat the skin, but they would probably not give that through the hand.
Why didnt the media ask him about it more?
Irish_Dem
(82,251 posts)Johnny2X2X
(24,428 posts)I think I fully realized it during the 2024 campaign when Trump was completely controlling the media coverage of both he and Biden and then Harris. When it came out in court before that that Trump basically had medi9a members from the NY Times and MSNBC on his campaign payroll and it was barely covered as a scandal I realized that he spent the last 4 years corrupting the media and if he had plants at the NYT and MSNBC, he had plants everywhere. I told a friend that if he has the media in his pocket like I think he might, it won't matter who runs against him, he will beat them. And that's exactly what played out where the media just magnified his campaign's themes and hammered Biden and then Harris. The his buddy took over Twitter and he started paling around with Zuckerberg and I knew he had social media too.
I don't know if we can win with the media being controlled like this. Substance doesn't matter when the GOP can just utter their opponent is woke, and then the media parrots it while social media fills voters' social media feeds with propaganda. I don't know if we can break through that without doing work behind the scenes to uncorrupt all of this.
Irish_Dem
(82,251 posts)He owns the courts, congress, corporations, universities, voting machines,
districting efforts, and most of the media, US military and ICE.
And he is silencing any criticism with his arrests and lawsuits against whistleblowers.
He has the entire system sewn up.
Even if he doesn't win, he can declare fraud and get the troops in place.
Johnny2X2X
(24,428 posts)I think that's a trial balloon for me. He's negotiated a multi $billion dollar settlement with himself. How this gets covered is a litmus test. If it doesn't garner the largest media outrage ever, we are cooked.
I think they'll try to seal the terms of the settlement, but the amount will leak. If this isn't a massive story, we just don't have any hope. And if he gets away with it, expect more lawsuits for bigger amounts.
Swede
(40,026 posts)Rotting in real time.
Vinca
(54,316 posts)Looks like there's an indentation where he gets some kind of IV, but that's been there. My husband disagrees with me. He says it looks like something's been sucked out of his hand. No bruising, no bandage??
sop
(19,252 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,517 posts)He shouldnt be cosplaying Jesus. God might be smiting him.
NCDem47
(3,522 posts)Vomit city.
I'm sorry...nothing about that looks normal.
Norrrm
(5,545 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,994 posts)A very large one.
pfitz59
(12,906 posts)from some sort of infusion? Chemo?
hatrack
(65,122 posts).
usonian
(26,567 posts)Simple.
Happy Hoosier
(9,614 posts)He's an animated corpse with an AI Trump emulator running his foul mouth.
spanone
(142,041 posts)Ms. Toad
(38,806 posts)I'm familiar with it from a foot condition treated by injections of steroids between the toes. It things out the far pad on the bottom of the foot, and often also creates divots like that between the metatarsals on the top of the foot as the fat dies off in response to the the steroids.
gab13by13
(32,745 posts)MineralMan
(151,531 posts)That divot is the junction of two tendons in the back of the hand. On old people, they can stand out.|
The photo depicts no missing tissues.
Blue Owl
(59,600 posts)Quickly.
LetMyPeopleVote
(181,879 posts)republianmushroom
(22,661 posts)Doodley
(12,078 posts)Rob H.
(5,912 posts)Granted, it's a sample size of 1 and my dad doesn't live on Big Macs and Diet Coke and isn't morbidly obese like Orange Foolius, but that doesn't look normal to me.