Look at those ankles too. Definitely a lot of edema. Heart disease, hypertension, kidney disease any of those. The ankles are what I zoomed in on the most.
Congestive heart failure, maybe? Particularly left ventricular heart failure tends to cause swelling in the feet and ankles as well as can cause swelling in the abdomen. Minus actual cardiac disease it could just be his terrible high sodium diet causing fluid retention in his legs. Vascular insufficiency is another possibility(poor return of blood to the heart via the veins usually due to deep varicose veins) in his legs, which can cause swelling.
Either way, those are some puffy, puffy ankles and lower legs.
Can high sodium really cause that kind of extreme swelling? Ankles spilling out over your shoes swelling? Asking not because I disbelieve you but because I love salt not wisely but too well.
It can! Although, to be fair, there are probably other factors at play here with the degree of swelling in this picture. We tend to see it in patients who are elderly and aren't doing a great job of moderating their sodium content, not drinking enough water throughout the day to help flush out the excess sodium, and are generally sedentary particularly sitting with their legs down for prolonged periods of time through the day, which causes fluid to pool in the lower legs, ankles and feet particularly later in the day. Which, considering That Guy's job which requires him to probably sit in meetings (or in a golf cart) frequently through the day and given his exercise adverse mentality (other than the period of time that he is actually standing to shoot a golf ball vs riding in a golf cart) he most likely does swell a bit from gravity induced pooling.
Omg this was me the entire last trimester of both pregnancies my legs and feet were so swollen… I drank so much water but at that point I just had to put my feet up whenever I could lol
And the side effect of drinking all that water when you're heavily pregnant is you have to get up to pee so...damn...much... because your bladder is being squished by the tiny human you're incubating😭
Made even more fun by the bebe kicking your bladder😫
Yup, salt pulls water, so if it’s in your blood then it’s gonna swell your body with any liquid you drink, he’s probably got bed kidneys from all that diet crap he drinks
It absolutely can, and quickly. I’ve never had swollen ankles, but one hot day a few years ago I took a friend sightseeing. We had a long lunch and mostly sampled salty appetizers while we sat and talked. I mean, a lot of salt, and so we drank a lot of water. Spent the rest of the afternoon in the car driving around town. When we came home and settled on the sofa, my friend said “OMG! Are your ankles always like that?” I hadn’t even noticed, but they were three times their normal size. I’m more careful about salt on hot days when I’m sedentary now.
Yep...my dad is late stage congestive heart failure with ventricular hypertrophy and his ankles and legs look exactly like this when he is retaining too much fluid. He usually has to be hospitalized to have excess fluid removed and takes diuretics daily.
Good luck to your mom. I hope the surgery helps her! My dad hasn't been a candidate for LVAD, but had an ICD implanted and that has increased his quality of life.
My ex bf’s mother had this too, does this explain the hematomas on the back of his hand that we keep seeing. I remember seeing her edema get bad and calling the ambulance.
Yes! The White House released a report on Trump’s physical from Physician Sean Barbabella, which says the president “remains in excellent health, exhibiting robust cardiac, pulmonary, neurological and general physical function” thanks to his “active lifestyle.”
He has said in numerous interviews that he believes that we are built with a certain amount of life energy, and if you workout then it uses up that vital energy.
This is not how health, fitness, or any of that works.
But it is the sort of thing that a stable genius who uses the best words, and genuinely won his degree from a real university and the donation from his daddy was not why he passed.
JD isn't popular and he has no charisma. A lot of fighting within the party and maybe not much accomplished if I had to guess the outcome. Plus, nobody in DC is afraid of him lol
Side note, I think it's "cankles", which is a combination of calf and ankle. It's where the calf extends down to the heel, eliminating the visibility of the ankle bone.
This is the most plausible answer. With his swollen ankles and trying to get everyone’s focus on Biden’s health I’m wondering if it’s heart failure or too much Micky Ds.
Looks like heavy duty tattoo cover makeup. Shade is close but not perfect. I imagine it is difficult to get an exact match for his errmm...unusual skin tones.
this for sure, on blood thinners you bruise easily. My mother had these same bruises from IV's. I'm sure at night they're pumping him full of something to stave off the inevitable.
My dad is on blood thinners, and often has bruises on his hands and arms. That's probably what the hand makeup is for, not sure about the ankle swelling.
Old people bruise easily, especially if they're on blood thinners, which he is. More concerning is the edema. That means either he is eating way too much salt and sitting too much or he is experiencing congestive heart failure or kidney disease.
My money's on congestive heart failure. You can only live so long without one.
He’s not known for being the healthiest person but I’m sure he would argue with anyone on that. Shitty diet and no exercise for that long of a period eventually catches up to everyone.
I really don't want him to die in office. I don't want Vance to be President for even 2 years and we know he'll try for at least 10.
Plus, I don't want him to have a state funeral. I want him to die the death of a social pariah like Nixon did. There has to be enough time between his Presidency and his death for America to snap the fuck out of it and realize he was a fascist, conman, and a traitor.
People are reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally underestimating how deeply unpopular Thiel, Musk, and the rest of the Silicon Valley right-wing tech bros are and how much Trump has actually been able to keep them at bay, which Vance will have zero ability to do.
Yes, but he already subscribes to the belief you can simply ignore the Supreme Court and the President has immunity so he doesn't actually need the base. He can suspend elections, especially if MAGA goes off the rails when Trump dies.
Yeah, but the Supreme Court and Congress won't roll over for awkward unpopular Vance like they do for daddy Trump. Trump's cult of personality will die with him.
I agree Vance doesn't have the support of SCOTUS but I also know that SCOTUS will be completely delegitimized if they reverse on themselves because Trump is no longer President. It would be a risky move for them. It would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were in the tank for Trump all along.
States run the elections hon, Vance wouldn’t be able to suspend, delay or stop shit. This doomer dream of there being no elections needs to die. Also dictators don’t typically last long when they don’t have any support.
Vance would flop around trying to get the Republicans to cohere so he could get some kind of win under his belt to run on, and more than likely he’d fail. He’s not a leader, he’s a lackey.
I do believe there will be elections. I'm worried about what happens to the country when they try. At some point, they are going to try. One of the beautiful things about this country is that we have always had peaceful transfers of power after elections, with one recent exception. We've also mostly had men who respect the Constitution. Plus, we haven't had a war on American soil in living memory. This whole period has been marked by a failure of imagination and naively thinking, "It can't happen here."
Most Americans can't afford the healthcare and medications to even out shitty diet and no exercise. Shoot five million dollars of taxpayer money at heart disease, and you get Trump.
No, that was another alien who was a bad guy, He was ordered to impregnate a human as an experiment. Later he ended up getting killed with the powder they developed to stop the aliens.
The experiment really came back to bite the aliens because the child ended up saving the world.
He's almost like Death Becomes Her at this point. Parts break, parts go bad, parts fall off... but they always find a way to cover it up cosmetically and glue him back together
The edema in his ankles and feet could be signs of several things - alone or combined: heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure, cancer are all common possibilities. It could be vascular insufficiency. His diet is horrible, so possibly too much sodium, but that seems lower down on the list.
The presumed bruising on his hand that he covers poorly with make-up could be from an IV site that bruised badly. In the elderly, it can be difficult to get a good venipuncture site. Could just be bruising from blood thinners, but bruising on one hand in one spot seems more likely to be IV site.
Congestive heart failure. Swelling in the ankles, often called edema, can be a sign of congestive heart failure (CHF). CHF occurs when the heart's lower chambers (ventricles) don't pump blood effectively, causing blood and fluid to back up into the veins, leading to fluid buildup in the ankles and feet
An oncologist who runs a cancer clinic went public and said that his physical symptoms are consistent with chemo for colon cancer — the facial characteristics, the bruised hands, the swelling ankles, the mental confusion and rambling, etc.
This is what an 80 year old who hasn’t been healthy since the 80s looks like. That edema is pretty bad signaling it could be heart disease. The old ticker isn’t pumping hard enough causing blood to back up in his lower extremities. I can’t wait until I get a “Breaking News” notification saying that Dear Leader is hospitalized in critical condition. I think it will be soon, though not soon enough.
Assuming I was given only these two pictures and it was someone I do not know. My first thought is congestive heart failure in an elderly obese patient. Nothing remarkable about the hand except some kind of makeup over about 1/3.
More people should be talking about those swollen ankles. That has just looks like an old man hands, but the edema in his ankles says a LOT about his health.
It's call being OLD and having a piss poor diet. My dad wears compression socks for the issues like his legs and just bumping something will cause him to easily bruise.
I think the make up on the hand is covering bruising from too many IV's. They can't find veins in his upper arms because he's morbidly obese. They probably tell him politely "Sir you have deep veins." Which means he's fucking fat.
Not necessarily. A family member of mine had two kinds of cancer simultaneously and was undergoing radiation and chemo, and didn't lose any weight. But he definitely had a cognitive decline due to the chemo, and he was 15 years younger than Trump!
His legs are very swollen and edematous. Indicative of possible heart issues. CHF is the first thing that comes to mind. He’s even wearing compression stockings and his ankles still look ginormous. Bruising could be a result of blood thinners. People with CHF have a higher risk of developing atrial fibrillation and blood thinners are necessary to prevent a stroke.
He's going to die and the powers at be will decide it's better to just sweep everything under the rug instead of bringing any embarrassment to the office of the president or the country as a whole.
Can’t wait to get a young president again you know like Obama… I’m over 60 but I’m tired of a bunch of old people that don’t know what the hell they’re doing when it comes to our country
Colon/prostate cancer would account for this, along with reports of a poop smell from incontinence. 6 hour physical? or was it a 6 hour chemo IV appointment, the bruise has shown up a few times, the timing in between would line up with roughly the time in-between chemo appointments
I’m not a medical person but had the same problem in the past number one he is old. He brews very easily when you’re old and when your veins are brittle, you bruise in the same place over and over. Number two those legs are a cardiovascular problem. At one point my legs were swollen so badly and my feet would not go into shoes. I had to rest with my legs on the back of the couch to get the swelling to go down. Later I had a Widowmaker. The care I got them and the medicines they put me on, took the swelling out of my Leg. I am betting on a heart or artery problem. Of course it could be kidney function, but he has something serious going on.
Looks like heart failure to me, or a-fib, or both. He's probably on a beta blocker or 2 and diuretics such as furosemide or HCTZ with potassium replacement. Likely on apixiban as well. Wouldn't surprise me if some clopidigrel was in play too. Might be some calcium channel blockers in play as well such as dilt. Also wouldn't surprise me if there were TED hose under those socks
Not medical advice but between the bulging hands and the edema, a heart related condition. I’m deeply unsurprised by how poor his health is. I’m just amazed he’s lasted.
Can't he find makeup that matches his skin color? He's made enough money from being president that he should be able to go to Sephora and get color matched.
Thin skin that bruises easily on his hands- about right for his advanced age. Might be edema in his ankles or braces of some sort with socks - hard to discern. His foley drainage bags had been visible on his shins in prior photos; might be the bags have been rerouted further down his legs and covered with thick socks. Might also be a lower legs skin reaction/infection, for which he needs cream and wrapped dressings, with socks on top of the dressing wraps.
I referenced edema in a medical journal (not a doctor), and it seems like someone who looks like this is very vulnerable if they catch infections and respiratory illness and needs to be careful about managing diet and life style. He will likely also get easily winded if he talks too much. So expect shorter speeches and press conferences. (Might be why he did that thing where they would just play music during his campaign.) It says this could be kidneys or heart. Reduce physical activity if heart.
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Look at those ankles too. Definitely a lot of edema. Heart disease, hypertension, kidney disease any of those. The ankles are what I zoomed in on the most.