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BumRushDaShow

(158,727 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:11 PM Saturday

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

Henry203

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

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

Orrex

(65,837 posts)
9. We're past that point
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:54 PM
Saturday

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

(23,446 posts)
22. Well, idk about "self serving vanity", but I suppose you're right.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 08:52 PM
Saturday

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

Evolve Dammit

(21,161 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
Saturday

FirstLight

(15,687 posts)
10. What would require IV on a regular basis?
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:57 PM
Saturday

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

(50,814 posts)
15. There are so many places to place an IV
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 07:04 PM
Saturday

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

(38,301 posts)
40. I think I got an IV there when getting an MRI
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:01 PM
Saturday

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

(24,078 posts)
56. Maybe drump uses Propofol?
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 04:35 AM
Sunday

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

PatSeg

(50,814 posts)
68. Yes, that could be
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 10:41 AM
Sunday

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

(42,090 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
Sunday

Born Free

(1,645 posts)
75. chemo sometimes given weekly
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:37 PM
Sunday

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

(42,090 posts)
77. I got my chemo infusion in my hand, 4 times 3 weeks apart
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:54 PM
Sunday

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

tinrobot

(11,703 posts)
55. He might be taking Alzheimer's medication.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 03:24 AM
Sunday

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

(2,907 posts)
6. Karoline stop the BS, it's not from hand shaking PERIOD
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:31 PM
Saturday

So tell us if it is heart, liver or kidneys

Dulcinea

(8,979 posts)
32. I would bet my next paycheck...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:11 PM
Saturday

...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

(8,979 posts)
48. Probably not.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:40 AM
Sunday

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

Disaffected

(5,828 posts)
80. But your father
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:30 PM
Sunday

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

twodogsbarking

(15,216 posts)
11. He may be ready to explode. Oh, the humanity....
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:04 PM
Saturday

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

3catwoman3

(27,507 posts)
36. No best makeup Oscar for whoever did this clumsy...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:37 PM
Saturday

…attempt at camouflage.

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

Aristus

(70,659 posts)
67. No makeup artist of any talent or repute is going to work for that scumbag.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 10:27 AM
Sunday

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

jmowreader

(52,617 posts)
60. It's almost like his entourage hates him
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:59 AM
Sunday

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

(38,366 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
Sunday

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

Botany

(75,113 posts)
83. Does he have a pulmonary edema that they trying to hide under that wood putty?
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 02:21 AM
Yesterday

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

(64,407 posts)
24. That's where they transfuse the blood they take from
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:10 PM
Saturday

Immigrant children.

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

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Grammy23

(6,029 posts)
26. You'd think someone (maybe someone who wears lots of make up)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:19 PM
Saturday

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

(29,118 posts)
28. Is there not a professional make-up artist aka MUA...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:40 PM
Saturday

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

(178,094 posts)
34. My grandmother always had swollen ankles.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:29 PM
Saturday

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

(4,519 posts)
35. Personally I am hoping for a lightning bolt.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:37 PM
Saturday

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

(27,507 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
Saturday

… 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

(6,947 posts)
39. Most shaken hands in history?
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:45 PM
Saturday

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

-90% jimmy

LudwigPastorius

(13,250 posts)
41. "...he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis..."
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:07 PM
Saturday

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

(8,979 posts)
57. I've thought that all along.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:41 AM
Sunday

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

(2,047 posts)
43. Procul Harem was playing on the bastardized ex Rose Garden
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:48 PM
Saturday

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

Karma, neh?

Aussie105

(7,132 posts)
45. The makeup is bad, plastered on.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:21 AM
Sunday

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

(3,159 posts)
54. Thanks to the Independent reporting
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 02:59 AM
Sunday

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

NewEnglandAutumn

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

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

(32,286 posts)
66. My husband is on the baby aspirin treatment.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 10:13 AM
Sunday

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

(158,727 posts)
70. What can (and often does) cause that kind of bruising
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:29 PM
Sunday

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

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

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

(168,555 posts)
69. trump is not well and is trying to hide the decline in health
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:08 PM
Sunday

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

(20,136 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
Sunday

He's still going strong!

underpants

(192,363 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
Sunday

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

SuzyandPuffpuff

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

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

(60,214 posts)
81. IV bruises?
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 09:09 PM
Sunday

&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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