White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president wears bandages on the back of his hand because he’s “literally constantly shaking hands.”
CNN host Jake Tapper isn’t buying the official White House explanation for Donald Trump sporting bandages on the back of his hand, arguing on “The Lead” that there’s more to the president’s health picture than has been revealed.
Tapper discussed the matter with CNN chief political analyst David Axelrod and ex-Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that Trump wears the bandages as a result of “constantly shaking hands.”
“The White House gave the same explanation for bruising back in July,” Tapper said Thursday. “Obviously, he’s 79 years old. And there is something going on with his health that they’re not telling us, because otherwise, why did he have that MRI?”
Is he dead yet?
I got a nice bottle of booze waiting for the announcement
Can the doctors be sued and brought to testify under oath that Donald is perfectly healthy?
Perjury has actual consequences IIRC
Does it? Does perjury have real consequences when literally nothing else does?
I believe that between doctor patient confidentiality and HIPAA, that will be quite difficult.
Imagine that your doctor was forced to give testimony on your health. Nobody would want that.
Idk I heard it was an abortion… That should do it
Id assume Trump would need to file a HIPPA release which ain’t happening.
Now if this was a democratic president the supreme court would say that by accepting taxpayer funded healthcare, the citizens are thereby the payor/insurance company and that HIPPA authorizes release of protected health information to payors so the public is allowed to know subpoenad health information without a release.
File that one under “No Shit Sherlock.” But he’s going to dodder along for another 8 - 10 years.
Whatever it is, I hope it hurts a lot.
I heard it was childrapeolitus, and that he has had a really bad case of it for many decades.
I hope it’s something serious but on the cusp of treatment, cancelled because he shut down the NIH.
He wants to be on a coin so badly, he’ll die for it. I say we increase the incentive, and offer him a stamp, too, even though he probably hates stamps for some MAGA reason.
It really doesn’t matter until he actually collapses to the floor. Even then they’ll try to spin it into something positive “Mr. president was exhausted for working the hardest anyone has ever worked.”
That’s basically already their excuse for him falling asleep constantly.
The Dems poisoned him. Kill all the Dems.
I really don’t understand why they always feel the need to cover up presidential health issues. I know the answer is “national security,” but how exactly is it secure to have a man in obvious mental and physical decline going around “shaking hands” with other world leaders? Just own up to it and have him die at Mar-a-lago playing golf like he probably wants. That was the whole point of having JD as a backup, right?
My bet is that they’re trying to get to the two year mark before kicking Trump out. That way JD gets a little less than two years in the white house, but is still eligible to be president two more times.
I doubt that’s the reason. Vance doesn’t have the skills or the personality to be president. I’d expect to see him impeached more than win an election.
They think they’ll last 10 years before they’re ground into a paste.
Blue anon back at it again.
I mean, there is definitely something wrong with Trump, he’s almost 80.
I guess you could argue that what’s wrong with him doesn’t affect his ability to lead, but personally he hasn’t been mentally fit to lead for a long time now.
CNN host and an MD?
I’m so tired of this fucking story. This evil p.o.s is never going to die. We’ve been hearing Trump health/mind failing stories for like 10 fucking years already…
Wake me up when he’s actually dead. Unfortunately he’s probably going to outlive me and I’m only 39.
His age makes people complacent because they assume he’s gonna die soon. Even if he does, I’m nit sure it’ll improve anything
Exactly.
Unless his death is imminent, I dont care.
It certainly feels that way.
Why say something now, Jake? Why not wait until after his presidency? Then write a book about it? Then sell that book while you’re doing your job on TV? Just a thought.
Because he’s holding out for a spot when Trump dies. Everyone in the conservative sphere is circling the White House like sharks because they know half of everyone is gone as soon as Vance sits down - because half of them are in those seats on account of being friends with Trump and nothing more.
I’m $ure he ha$ hi$ rea$ons.
Trump died at 11:58 pst
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Considering he already walks and talks like a badly animated corpse, I don’t think that would make much of a difference.
Bruised hand you say? JD is slacking on his primary duty
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president wears bandages on the back of his hand because he’s “literally constantly shaking hands.”
As if that were even a slightly reasonable explanation.
I have bandages on my finger tips because I type on a keyboard all day. Without these bandages, by fingers would fall off!
Lol
Wow solve any other capers by yourself there Nancy drew?
