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 presidents health.
A large patch of what appeared to be foundation, in a lighter shade than his skin, was clearly visible during President Trumps visit to an exhibit at the Peoples 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 Trumps 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

CanonRay
(15,534 posts)
Henry203
(707 posts)Where he becomes wheel chair bound and cant talk but understands everything.
Orrex
(65,837 posts)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 theres no doubt even among the most zealous of his fuckhead kkkultists.
electric_blue68
(23,446 posts)Total "Be GONE, trump !!!!!"
SergeStorms
(19,696 posts)on a slab in a mortuary. 😉
greatauntoftriplets
(178,094 posts)niyad
(126,375 posts)Evolve Dammit
(21,161 posts)
doc03
(38,301 posts)FirstLight
(15,687 posts)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)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)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)Propofol... that intravenous sleep medication that Michael Jackson used.
PatSeg
(50,814 posts)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)Born Free
(1,645 posts)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)It only left a small mark, but Im not on blood thinners
tinrobot
(11,703 posts)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.
Bayard
(26,620 posts)Preferred by tiny hands all over the world.
vapor2
(2,907 posts)So tell us if it is heart, liver or kidneys
cstanleytech
(27,886 posts)sop
(15,661 posts)cstanleytech
(27,886 posts)Dulcinea
(8,979 posts)...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.
Disaffected
(5,828 posts)And live another 20 years. Just like Cheney.
Dulcinea
(8,979 posts)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)was not the president. I'm thinking that makes a big difference (as it did with Cheney).
cstanleytech
(27,886 posts)SWBTATTReg
(25,618 posts)twodogsbarking
(15,216 posts)Who has next Thursday at 3 am in the office pool? I'll take it if available.
riversedge
(77,313 posts)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-health-hand-makeup-b2813029.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-health-hand-makeup-b2813029.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-health-hand-makeup-b2813029.html
3catwoman3
(27,507 posts)
attempt at camouflage.
Might as well scream, Look, look! Im trying to hide something!
Aristus
(70,659 posts)He has a bad habit of not paying his employees and contractors. They had to find someone who works cheap.
niyad
(126,375 posts)jmowreader
(52,617 posts)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)No professional make-up artist would ever do such a terrible job. He does it himself, plus his own hair.
Botany
(75,113 posts)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.
JoseBalow
(8,223 posts)Fuck that guy
electric_blue68
(23,446 posts)The Wizard
(13,355 posts)when the gods foreclose on him.
PSPS
(14,839 posts)Blue Owl
(57,114 posts)
VanceFan
(81 posts)He's rotting from the inside out. Might explain part of his smell.
tonekat
(2,312 posts)AZ8theist
(6,863 posts)Javaman
(64,407 posts)Immigrant children.
He only realized that fucking kids wont make him immortal, he needs their blood
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FirstLight
(15,687 posts)He was not hiding anything
Grammy23
(6,029 posts)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 isnt much chance hed 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 theyll 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)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.
llmart
(16,731 posts)Let it be so.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,429 posts)
EndlessMaze
(57 posts)I gross out on shit like this. Trump is revolting,
greatauntoftriplets
(178,094 posts)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)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)on Democrats. You know, without a doubt, that if he keels over while eating, or is found dead in his bed, theyll be sure that we did it.
thought crime
(707 posts)3catwoman3
(27,507 posts)thought crime
(707 posts)usonian
(19,909 posts)
90-percent
(6,947 posts)Wheres the fact check on this How can it possibly be verified? Another tfg fabricated so called "fact"
-90% jimmy
LudwigPastorius
(13,250 posts)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.
58Sunliner
(5,981 posts)He looks like death warmed over.
Dulcinea
(8,979 posts)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)The orange freak had "A Whiter Shade of Pale" playing (among others).
Karma, neh?
Aussie105
(7,132 posts)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.)
MrWowWow
(864 posts)Is he half human plus half zombie?
Bread and Circuses
(1,017 posts)BaronChocula
(3,159 posts)Leave it to the foreign press to scrutinize a republican president the way the way the American press scrutinized President Biden.
NewEnglandAutumn
(234 posts)At the end of the article it said "He added that Trumps 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)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)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)Hes getting IV diuretics, that would explain bruises on his hand and the catheter bag hes obviously wearing. For a variety of issues hes retaining fluid and the depends he wears can only soak up so much pee. Id also bet his kidneys are working overtime and that may account for the tired, strained look he always has. Hes in rough shape and sooner rather than later his body will completely give out. Hes probably still eating McDonalds and not listening to anyone about the crap food he consumes, time hopefully is limited.
twodogsbarking
(15,216 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(168,555 posts)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
Link to tweet

bluestarone
(20,136 posts)He's still going strong!
twodogsbarking
(15,216 posts)underpants
(192,363 posts)Baghdad Barbie seriously never disappoints. The complete lack of situational or self awareness is remarkably not just consistent but 110%.
SuzyandPuffpuff
(260 posts)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)&I bet you dollars to donuts thatsThe reason for the bandage. I wonder if he has asked for; a Purple Heart?