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Lmao is he really America's oldest president now? Finally?
So he definitely had that stroke
Million dollar scam idea: sell MAGA hand makeup.
Along with cankle socks.
If he bruises easily are they sure blood thinners are a good idea? I'm all for regime change through internal haemorrhage, but this once again sounds like bullshit.
Tbf he says that he bruises easily because he takes massive amounts of aspirin as a blood thinner. Against doctors' advice if I read that correctly.
Well, it's either blood thinners or death by stroke/infarction. The man's blood must be like mollases without the thinners, he eats like shit and barely exercises, except the golfing trips.
I don't care if he dies from a stroke or from a heart attack, as long as he gets on with it.
Great. Now release ALL of the Epstein files.
He could easily go years this way. His brain will be Swiss cheese, but Miller is running things anyway.
Paywall.
I have 80 year old grandparents. Love em to death. It blows my mind thinking of anybody that age running the country.
~~running~~ ruining the country
ftfy
I have no problem believing someone would be ruining the country if they were in charge.
It blows my mind thinking of anybody that age running the country.
They're not the sharpest anymore. But personally I have a bigger problem with Trump's personality and lack of ethics, regardless of age.
Also imagine your grandpa (or -ma!) using that makeup for - what? Hide that you're old? It doesn't work!
Raiding.
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
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.
....
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.
I wonder if his dementia will progress to the point where he starts inadvertently reliving old, sick Epstein memories while live
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.
One of these days we'll stop electing 80+ year old dementia patients to run America
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.
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.
Why would he admit to it now, and for a large outlet like WSJ? We all got used to him lying about it endlessly.
edit: taking a closer look at the original article, there really is no reason for conspiratorial thought: it's just an old man babbling.
PS: the pictures of his hands are horrendous.
PPS:
He insisted in the interview that he is in excellent shape and puts it down to “good genetics.”
He is increasingly disinhibited, it's one of the things that happens in old age as time takes its toll on brain functions. Really old people will just say whatever, a lot like drunk people do.
Yet, Bernie “was too old” by the “polls” and the DNC but he could have won but instead they put up Hillary and again Kamala?!?! MONEY!
Drumpf has ONLY won against women, who would have thought?!
And Bernie is still out there holding strong with no ailments and still having AMERICAN VOTERS VOICES HEARD FIRST! It’s so upsetting watching the fall of America into oligarchs and fascism!! Fuck both parties!
Time to clean house and drain the swamp plus set term limits!! Get it together America, it’s embarrassing!!!
Drumpf has ONLY won against women, who would have thought?!
A woman could've beaten Trump. Just not a neoliberal one.
Trump said he wore medical compression socks to help with swelling in his ankles.
He also sleeps in a straitjacket to help with his swelling dementia.
I mean, isn't he still lying? I bet they stick him with some kind of juice in those spots on his hands. They're in the same spot on both.
Those spots are really common locations for access to veins in older patients. Also as people age their blood vessels become a lot more fragile, especially the veins, and will break at the slightest damage, especially when he's on blood thinners too.
But yeah they are definitely giving him some sort of IV medication or fluids.
Assuming he actually takes aspirin, he's not lying, he's misdirecting: the infusions cause bruising, the aspirin makes it more noticable.
Don't you think they're sticking him a lot though? For them to go to a noticeable place, they've probably tried all other locations. My guess is that they fluid him up every day with either electrolytes or some kind of dementia meds. He's wearing a bandaid, they may even have a permanent stint in there.
It depends on what type of treatment he's getting and whether it requires an IV or an infusion. There's speculation that he's getting infusions for Alzheimer's (either Leqembi or Kisunla); both treatments would explain the bruising on his hands, and also require periodic checks with an MRI.
So... Can any medical expert tell us if this sets any life expectancy limits?
All the way up to the end of his term.
A straight jacket might help him with an allover compression!
Every person that age takes many MANY pills to keep going each day.
Hope he lives to 150 so America finally gets what it deserves.
I'm at least in favor of leaving any of the stupid shit he destroyed or built as-is for another 250 years as a reminder of how fucking stupid we were.