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.
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
we’re about to get 10 years of the couch fucker, come hook or crook.
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.
Teaching critical thinking is really a “childhood only” thing, it’s very hard to get that into people after their minds are set and there are fallacies at work keeping them attached to their opinions.
Growing up in the 90s, we had classes in “media consumption” that taught you how to examine the claims made and the sources behind them. Rule #1 - news should be dispassionate, if you’re hearing something passionate, it’s not news.
Looking back I realize our teachers saw the information wars coming, and decided to do something about it. Sadly my parents never got this education and so every Facebook meme is true in their eyes.
Brain plasiticy doesn’t come into play until the mid to late 60s…
It’s why it’s acceptable to give up on a 70 year old boomer, but not really anyone else.
There’s a concerning amount of accounts arguing we need to write off teenagers that were dumb enough to vote trump before their brains have even finished developing.
Point being, giving up on voters is only good for a very small demographic.
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
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.
you must not have much personal experience with these people. at some point you gotta know how far you can get with them, otherwise you will burn out and become horrendously cynical. btw i never said we should just give up and listen to podcasts. im just offering you a window into a family split down maga vs progressive lines and how they (the magats) will do anything to justify their position rather than listen and absorb new information.
I wonder if his dementia will progress to the point where he starts inadvertently reliving old, sick Epstein memories while live
Ewww… No one wants to see the hard toadie.
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.
“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.
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
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.
Boooooring
Whoever asked the monkey paw for “interesting times” is a fucking dick
When the boomers are dead
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.
Largely due to a psy-op using “new media” and influencers.
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.
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.
Trump is 79.
Concrete thinking and literalism are no match for hyperbolic speech, you robot.
That’s not a foot, it’s 11.5 inches.
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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.
Maybe if the the Daily Beast would include his age in the headline of every single article then OC would have gotten it correct.