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BumRushDaShow

(160,919 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:11 PM Aug 23

Trump's hand makeup has returned after questions about president's health over swollen ankle sightings

Source: The Independent

Saturday 23 August 2025 17:58 BST


Donald Trump was seen Friday in Washington D.C., with makeup applied to his hand again after recent questions about the 79-year-old president’s health.

A large patch of what appeared to be foundation, in a lighter shade than his skin, was clearly visible during President Trump’s visit to an exhibit at the People’s House museum.

Later in the day, during a World Cup event in the Oval Office, Trump kept his left hand folded over his right as he made remarks, but the makeup was again visible when he stood up.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not address the makeup but referenced Trump’s frequent hand-shaking in a statement Saturday. “President Trump is a man of the people, and he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis than any other President in history. His commitment is unwavering, and he proves that every single day,” Leavitt told The Independent.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-health-hand-makeup-b2813029.html

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Trump's hand makeup has returned after questions about president's health over swollen ankle sightings (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 23 OP
Sweet Jesus just fucking die already CanonRay Aug 23 #1
Nah debilitating stroke Henry203 Aug 23 #2
We're past that point Orrex Aug 23 #9
Well, idk about "self serving vanity", but I suppose you're right. electric_blue68 Aug 23 #22
Can't wait to see his "Big, Beautiful, Body"....... SergeStorms Aug 24 #62
It'd be nice to see him with aphasia since he's in love with his own voice. greatauntoftriplets Aug 23 #33
Why would you want to keep supporting his fascist ass? niyad Aug 24 #49
I gotta hurl. Her and Huckabee Sanders are the worst in my lifetime. Blondie and all the Faux News appointments as well. Evolve Dammit Aug 23 #3
I V. nt doc03 Aug 23 #4
What would require IV on a regular basis? FirstLight Aug 23 #10
There are so many places to place an IV PatSeg Aug 23 #15
I think I got an IV there when getting an MRI doc03 Aug 23 #40
Maybe drump uses Propofol? IcyPeas Aug 24 #56
Yes, that could be PatSeg Aug 24 #68
That's about when he started talking about trying to get into heaven. Something I've never heard him say before. Walleye Aug 24 #76
chemo sometimes given weekly Born Free Aug 24 #75
I got my chemo infusion in my hand, 4 times 3 weeks apart Walleye Aug 24 #77
He might be taking Alzheimer's medication. tinrobot Aug 24 #55
Maybe its Maybelline! Bayard Aug 23 #5
Karoline stop the BS, it's not from hand shaking PERIOD vapor2 Aug 23 #6
Sounds like he's not going to survive much longer which is a pity 🎻 cstanleytech Aug 23 #7
I would have preferred seeing him behind bars, which is also a pity. sop Aug 23 #8
As would I but it's not a perfect world. cstanleytech Aug 23 #12
I would bet my next paycheck... Dulcinea Aug 23 #32
He then will likely get a heart transplant. Disaffected Aug 24 #44
Probably not. Dulcinea Aug 24 #48
But your father Disaffected Aug 24 #80
Well, at least he'd get an upgrade from not having one to having one finally. cstanleytech Aug 24 #82
Just for those who didn't know what CHF means (I didn't). Congestive Heart Failure SWBTATTReg Aug 24 #74
He may be ready to explode. Oh, the humanity.... twodogsbarking Aug 23 #11
Geez--trump really needs to hire a better make-up artist for his hand riversedge Aug 23 #13
No best makeup Oscar for whoever did this clumsy... 3catwoman3 Aug 23 #36
No makeup artist of any talent or repute is going to work for that scumbag. Aristus Aug 24 #67
That looks like putty, not makeup. niyad Aug 24 #50
Shoe Goo bagimin Aug 24 #65
It's almost like his entourage hates him jmowreader Aug 24 #60
He's never had a make-up artist, that's why he looks so bad all the time FakeNoose Aug 24 #72
Does he have a pulmonary edema that they trying to hide under that wood putty? Botany Aug 25 #83
I wish him all the worst JoseBalow Aug 23 #14
Snort! 😄 electric_blue68 Aug 23 #23
He'll leave office The Wizard Aug 23 #16
Everything they say includes "more than any other President in history" PSPS Aug 23 #17
May the reaper reap swiftly and terribly Blue Owl Aug 23 #18
It's obvious VanceFan Aug 23 #19
It's turning into a claw. N/T tonekat Aug 23 #20
It's not a craw, it's a CRAW!!! AZ8theist Aug 23 #21
That's where they transfuse the blood they take from Javaman Aug 23 #24
Post removed Post removed Aug 23 #25
...last admin...?...as in Biden...? FirstLight Aug 23 #27
You'd think someone (maybe someone who wears lots of make up) Grammy23 Aug 23 #26
Is there not a professional make-up artist aka MUA... littlemissmartypants Aug 23 #28
I'm getting a bit giddy thinking that he's got to be nearing the end. llmart Aug 23 #29
... Oeditpus Rex Aug 23 #30
Yuck. EndlessMaze Aug 23 #31
My grandmother always had swollen ankles. greatauntoftriplets Aug 23 #34
Personally I am hoping for a lightning bolt. BlueKota Aug 23 #35
Me, too. Preferably while he's golfing. Something public and something that can't be blamed... 3catwoman3 Aug 23 #38
Marjorie Taylor Greene would be pretty suspicious of a lightning strike. thought crime Aug 24 #46
I could live with that. 3catwoman3 Aug 24 #53
🤣 BlueKota Aug 24 #59
True BlueKota Aug 24 #58
Nature smites thee. thought crime Aug 24 #47
What's a teensy tiny little repair without a band-aid? usonian Aug 23 #37
Most shaken hands in history? 90-percent Aug 23 #39
"...he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis..." LudwigPastorius Aug 23 #41
Given the swelling in his hands, he may have stage 4 CHF. 58Sunliner Aug 23 #42
I've thought that all along. Dulcinea Aug 24 #57
Procul Harem was playing on the bastardized ex Rose Garden BidenRocks Aug 23 #43
The makeup is bad, plastered on. Aussie105 Aug 24 #45
Is tr💩mp a Blend? MrWowWow Aug 24 #51
Can't TACO Hire a makeup artist? Looks like a hot mess. Bread and Circuses Aug 24 #52
Thanks to the Independent reporting BaronChocula Aug 24 #54
Asprin used to prevent cardio issues would not do it NewEnglandAutumn Aug 24 #61
My husband is on the baby aspirin treatment. murielm99 Aug 24 #66
What can (and often does) cause that kind of bruising BumRushDaShow Aug 24 #70
I'd bet vankuria Aug 24 #63
Hand make-up? He is fake in every way possible. twodogsbarking Aug 24 #64
trump is not well and is trying to hide the decline in health LetMyPeopleVote Aug 24 #69
I want him to be so very sick. Remember though, we also heard putin was very sick. bluestarone Aug 24 #71
Soon he will be shaking hands with nobody. twodogsbarking Aug 24 #73
If he kept his hand pointed at a 45 degree angle he wouldn't have that problem underpants Aug 24 #78
Vegas SuzyandPuffpuff Aug 24 #79
IV bruises? alfredo Aug 24 #81

Henry203

(745 posts)
2. Nah debilitating stroke
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:17 PM
Aug 23

Where he becomes wheel chair bound and can’t talk but understands everything.

Orrex

(66,106 posts)
9. We're past that point
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:54 PM
Aug 23

He needs to stroke out and die. Our fantasies (mine included) about him suffering in mute paralysis are self-serving vanity. His handlers would continue his Truth Social rants and his fascist executive orders as long as a machine can keep his foul blood pumping.

Nature needs to remove him in a spectacular and public and unambiguous fashion so that there’s no doubt even among the most zealous of his fuckhead kkkultists.

electric_blue68

(24,042 posts)
22. Well, idk about "self serving vanity", but I suppose you're right.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 08:52 PM
Aug 23

Total "Be GONE, trump !!!!!"

Evolve Dammit

(21,254 posts)
3. I gotta hurl. Her and Huckabee Sanders are the worst in my lifetime. Blondie and all the Faux News appointments as well.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:17 PM
Aug 23

FirstLight

(15,747 posts)
10. What would require IV on a regular basis?
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:57 PM
Aug 23

That's the question I have. Because if you were going to have to do IVs on a regular basis with somebody, wouldn't you have a stent or something already there so you wouldn't have to keep puncturing them? So then that begs the question that he's not getting it on a "regular" basis but "as needed"...

PatSeg

(51,029 posts)
15. There are so many places to place an IV
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 07:04 PM
Aug 23

In my experience, the hand was usually the last resort. So I'm assuming he's probably had numerous IVs already. It is possible that they've given him an IV port(s) somewhere unnoticeable, but it/they may have failed after awhile.

As for the makeup, is that really the best they could do? There is all kind of great makeup that could have covered up marks or bruises that are very natural looking.

I have to say, he's really looked awful lately even for Trump.

doc03

(38,438 posts)
40. I think I got an IV there when getting an MRI
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:01 PM
Aug 23

they injected the contrast dye in that IV. Maybe they found something with a MRI a couple weeks ago when he had the mark on the back of his hand. Maybe they have done a follow up checking something they found with the MRI.
I am not a doctor, it's an old nickname

IcyPeas

(24,312 posts)
56. Maybe drump uses Propofol?
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 04:35 AM
Aug 24

Propofol... that intravenous sleep medication that Michael Jackson used.

PatSeg

(51,029 posts)
68. Yes, that could be
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 10:41 AM
Aug 24

I have had so many IVs in my life that eventually they can't find a suitable vein. That is usually when they would have to resort to the hand.

Of course, any other president would be open with the public about his health condition, but we know that Trump will never be.

Walleye

(42,645 posts)
76. That's about when he started talking about trying to get into heaven. Something I've never heard him say before.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:53 PM
Aug 24

Born Free

(1,647 posts)
75. chemo sometimes given weekly
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:37 PM
Aug 24

If a person has problems with chemo they will give them smaller doses and push it into the veins in the arm and/or back of the hand on a weekly basis.

Walleye

(42,645 posts)
77. I got my chemo infusion in my hand, 4 times 3 weeks apart
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:54 PM
Aug 24

It only left a small mark, but I’m not on blood thinners

tinrobot

(11,790 posts)
55. He might be taking Alzheimer's medication.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 03:24 AM
Aug 24

Llecanemab (Leqembi) and donanemab (Kisunla) are administered intravenously. Both target the beta-amyloid proteins associated with Alzheimer's.

Considering that he seems to be exhibiting symptoms, it's definitely a possibility.

vapor2

(3,170 posts)
6. Karoline stop the BS, it's not from hand shaking PERIOD
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:31 PM
Aug 23

So tell us if it is heart, liver or kidneys

Dulcinea

(9,205 posts)
32. I would bet my next paycheck...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:11 PM
Aug 23

...that he has CHF & they're just not telling us. I'm not a doctor or a medical professional, but the Fascist Felon sure shows a lot of the signs of CHF.

Dulcinea

(9,205 posts)
48. Probably not.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:40 AM
Aug 24

My father needed a heart transplant at that same age & they said he was too old & not in good enough shape.

Disaffected

(5,921 posts)
80. But your father
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:30 PM
Aug 24

was not the president. I'm thinking that makes a big difference (as it did with Cheney).

twodogsbarking

(16,016 posts)
11. He may be ready to explode. Oh, the humanity....
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:04 PM
Aug 23

Who has next Thursday at 3 am in the office pool? I'll take it if available.

3catwoman3

(27,815 posts)
36. No best makeup Oscar for whoever did this clumsy...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:37 PM
Aug 23

…attempt at camouflage.

Might as well scream, “Look, look! I’m trying to hide something!”

Aristus

(70,983 posts)
67. No makeup artist of any talent or repute is going to work for that scumbag.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 10:27 AM
Aug 24

He has a bad habit of not paying his employees and contractors. They had to find someone who works cheap.

jmowreader

(52,683 posts)
60. It's almost like his entourage hates him
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:59 AM
Aug 24

You'd never get an exact, undetectable match with all the color variations on the back of his hand, but you can get WAY closer than the Glidden Tract House Beige he's wearing.

FakeNoose

(38,797 posts)
72. He's never had a make-up artist, that's why he looks so bad all the time
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 01:00 PM
Aug 24

No professional make-up artist would ever do such a terrible job. He does it himself, plus his own hair.

Botany

(75,392 posts)
83. Does he have a pulmonary edema that they trying to hide under that wood putty?
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 02:21 AM
Aug 25

BTW nice over the top cufflinks too. Diamonds, a ruby, set into silver cufflinks but in his picture standing up he looked like
shit with his mouth half open, stooped shoulders, and blank look on his face.

Javaman

(64,558 posts)
24. That's where they transfuse the blood they take from
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:10 PM
Aug 23

Immigrant children.

He only realized that fucking kids won’t make him immortal, he needs their blood

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Grammy23

(6,049 posts)
26. You'd think someone (maybe someone who wears lots of make up)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:19 PM
Aug 23

Would show him how to at least blend the blob — feather it out so that it gradually is faded into his hand. But then this is the same guy who thinks his face looks good with orange foundation that stops before reaching his hairline. So there isn’t much chance he’d bother to blend a non-matching foundation on the back of his hand.

His staff clearly does not care if the excuse is plausible. They just need a story and they’ll stick to that no matter how ridiculous it is. Got the bruising from shaking hands, eh? How come we never n saw this problem during campaign season when logically he was shaking as many if not more hands than he is now? 🖐️🤚

littlemissmartypants

(29,903 posts)
28. Is there not a professional make-up artist aka MUA...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:40 PM
Aug 23

That will agree to work for him? Or is it that his current MUA hates him so much as to intentionally f things up?

I've seen prosthetic noses, warts and scars done by students that were more believable.

My God! He's such a cruel joke on reality.

greatauntoftriplets

(178,316 posts)
34. My grandmother always had swollen ankles.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:29 PM
Aug 23

Strange how that's one of the best memories I have of ger since she died when I was 8.

She had several strokes over the years, and it was a stroke that killed her. As an adult, I've thought that her swollen ankles were a sign of CHF.

BlueKota

(4,645 posts)
35. Personally I am hoping for a lightning bolt.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:37 PM
Aug 23

That would send a really symbolic message. Kind of like the Chiffon commercial, "it's not nice to fool mother nature." It would be poetic justice. He's ending all environmental protections, so mother nature strikes back.

3catwoman3

(27,815 posts)
38. Me, too. Preferably while he's golfing. Something public and something that can't be blamed...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:41 PM
Aug 23

… on Democrats. You know, without a doubt, that if he keels over while eating, or is found dead in his bed, they’ll be sure that we did it.

90-percent

(6,951 posts)
39. Most shaken hands in history?
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:45 PM
Aug 23

Wheres the fact check on this How can it possibly be verified? Another tfg fabricated so called "fact"

-90% jimmy

LudwigPastorius

(13,492 posts)
41. "...he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis..."
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:07 PM
Aug 23

Who the fuck shakes hands with the top of their hand?

I'll take a stab and say, he's diabetic and has been receiving insulin and electrolytes through a peripheral IV.

Dulcinea

(9,205 posts)
57. I've thought that all along.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:41 AM
Aug 24

The Fascist Felon's health is clearly declining, & it's something that can't be cured, or that horrible (expletive deleted) of a press secretary would gleefully tell the world he was getting treatment & would be fine.

BidenRocks

(2,286 posts)
43. Procul Harem was playing on the bastardized ex Rose Garden
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:48 PM
Aug 23

The orange freak had "A Whiter Shade of Pale" playing (among others).

Karma, neh?

Aussie105

(7,265 posts)
45. The makeup is bad, plastered on.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:21 AM
Aug 24

It's a repetitive appearance, someone needs to track the time frame of this patching effort.
Might be a big hint there.

He has been looking more gaunt, low energy, more confused, and has lost weight over the last few months.

My Bingo card says . . . kidney failure, dialysis can be done via a vein in the hand and can leave a bruise.
Poor diet, long term abuse of uppers, yep that fits.

If he was a human being, he'd say . . . I'm not well, I'm no longer up for his, someone else take over.

But Trump being Trump, he will live in a permanent state of denial and believe in his immortality or whatever he has been searching so desperately for all his life.
I don't mind Trump fading away to the state of non-viability known as Death, but why does he need to take the whole country with him?

(On reflection, it probably is embalming fluid going into his veins.)



BaronChocula

(3,409 posts)
54. Thanks to the Independent reporting
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 02:59 AM
Aug 24

Leave it to the foreign press to scrutinize a republican president the way the way the American press scrutinized President Biden.

NewEnglandAutumn

(243 posts)
61. Asprin used to prevent cardio issues would not do it
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:04 AM
Aug 24

At the end of the article it said "He added that Trump’s hand bruises could be from the aspirin he takes to prevent cardiovascular disease." No way that is true. People who take an aspirin a day for this purpose take what used to be called 'baby asprin' it is 81mg. No way it would do that. I am wondering if he is on blood thinners.

The medical report in April was a lie.

murielm99

(32,368 posts)
66. My husband is on the baby aspirin treatment.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 10:13 AM
Aug 24

He doesn't have that kind of bruising. I take a blood thinner. I bruise easily, but I don't have that kind of bruising either.

BumRushDaShow

(160,919 posts)
70. What can (and often does) cause that kind of bruising
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:29 PM
Aug 24

is some kind of steroid like prednisone (or related like methylprednisolone) and that can be taken orally, or via IV (I know I have had both).

vankuria

(962 posts)
63. I'd bet
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:13 AM
Aug 24

He’s getting IV diuretics, that would explain bruises on his hand and the catheter bag he’s obviously wearing. For a variety of issues he’s retaining fluid and the depends he wears can only soak up so much pee. I’d also bet his kidneys are working overtime and that may account for the tired, strained look he always has. He’s in rough shape and sooner rather than later his body will completely give out. He’s probably still eating McDonalds and not listening to anyone about the crap food he consumes, time hopefully is limited.

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,428 posts)
69. trump is not well and is trying to hide the decline in health
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:08 PM
Aug 24

I am a type II diabetic with some kidney issues and have had a ton of blood work done. I have had to have blood drawn from my hands on several occasions. trump is not well



bluestarone

(20,387 posts)
71. I want him to be so very sick. Remember though, we also heard putin was very sick.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:41 PM
Aug 24

He's still going strong!

underpants

(193,279 posts)
78. If he kept his hand pointed at a 45 degree angle he wouldn't have that problem
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:02 PM
Aug 24

Baghdad Barbie seriously never disappoints. The complete lack of situational or self awareness is remarkably not just consistent but 110%.

SuzyandPuffpuff

(296 posts)
79. Vegas
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:25 PM
Aug 24

What are the odd makers in Vegas saying? Lol ... someone needs to start a pool as to the date of his final diaper load.

alfredo

(60,226 posts)
81. IV bruises?
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 09:09 PM
Aug 24

&I bet you dollars to donuts that’sThe reason for the bandage. I wonder if he has asked for; a Purple Heart?

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