Trump, 79, Spotted With New Bruise on His Other Hand

[u/ufosloth]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-spotted-with-new-bruise-on-his-other-hand/

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[u/TheTresStateArea → u/[deleted]]

On blood thinners so he bruises like an over ripe banana.

[u/goosejail → u/TheTresStateArea]

An ICU nurse did a video about his hand & cankles & said they're likely running a Lasix drip overnight (among other things) for him & they unhook him during the day so he can do public appearances. She said he's exhibiting textbook congestive heart failure signs.

Edit to add: here's the video since so many have asked: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BaBv34/

Edit 2: a port catheter or any central line placement is a surgical procedure (it's done this way in peds, not always in adults in all circumstances. A PICC isn't central line, it's peripheral) His team may not want to draw any more attention to his already obvious health issues by having him undergo some mysterious surgery. He'd have to (usually) transfer presidential authority to Vance while he's under anesthesia.

Edit 3: I didn't say the marks on his hand were definitely from an IV. They could be from regular blood draws. The video, if you watch it, says the same.

This commenter explained it well: Veins are hard to hit when someone has CHF and veinous failure as the veins are essentially collapsing in his extremities. In order to get fluids in they need easy to reach veins so they go for the hands and feet. They’re likely rotating because those veins keep collapsing.

[u/orielbean → u/[deleted]]

I already voted for Covid that one time

[u/B1NG_P0T → u/orielbean]

Wasn't that the best night?! I fell asleep so full of hope, only to be so disappointed in the morning.

[u/throwaway404f → u/B1NG_P0T]

That’s just me every morning

[u/Jesusland_Refugee → u/orielbean]

I voted for him to beat COVID, so he'd have to face consequences for his bullshit. Boy was I fucking stupid, not making that mistake again. Go team heart disease!

[u/OkGo0 → u/goosejail]

Why are they using hands if they are so visible? Why not use anywhere absleeve can cover

[u/goosejail → u/OkGo0]

Just from my former experience as a cancer mom, they could be rotating where they place the IV or take blood from. He may very well have bruises on his arms as well that we don't see.

[u/Mechaslurpee → u/goosejail]

Also depending on his veins, my wife is a very hard stick and they frequently have to get it from her hands to get blood or do an IV

[u/rap31264 → u/Mechaslurpee]

I have what they call rolling veins and I welcome the top of my hand to find a spot otherwise it's a fishing expedition...

[u/HermanGulch → u/rap31264]

Ironically, it's my veins on the back of my hand that roll. So I've generally given 'em one try on the hand, then it's up to the arm.

[u/HaltandCatchHands → u/OkGo0]

Wouldn’t it be sensible to make a port if you’re doing nightly IVs?

[u/goosejail → u/HaltandCatchHands]

He may very well have one & the marks on his hand are from regular blood draws.

I replied to another comment that placing a port or any central line is a surgical procedure done under general anesthesia. His team may not be willing to risk all the public speculation if Trump has to transfer his presidential authority to Vance to undergo some mysterious surgery. There's no way they can get away with people not finding out with so much public attention already on Trumps admitted health issues.

[u/cutshop → u/goosejail]

I mean the image for CHF is literally him...https://www.ahhrehab.com/congestive-heart-failure/

[u/creepy_charlie → u/cutshop]

Would this explain him falling asleep in public all the time?

[u/Dopaminedessert → u/creepy_charlie]

also hes 80 and spends his nights scrolling twitter and watching southpark.

[u/swordrat720 → u/cutshop]

Tiny hands ✅

Gut ✅

No dick ✅

Cankles ✅

Really is the poster child.

[u/Fresh_Ad3599 → u/cutshop]

This is so good.

[u/ajobforeveryhour → u/goosejail]

As a former ICU nurse I totally agree. On the one hand, it should be noted people can live for years with CHF. On the other, if they're at a point where they're doing IV diuretics, it's not promising (for him). It is also unlikely he would make the lifestyle changes needed to keep him going longer. Noncompliant CHF is not a fun way to go. Take care of yourself, people!

[u/still-waiting2233 → u/ajobforeveryhour]

Especially when he cannot rest and they blast him with diuretics for repeated public viewings. High risk for crumping his kidneys (probably not working too well anyways if they are giving it routinely IV)

[u/neenna68 → u/ajobforeveryhour]

My ex has CHF. 47 has all the same signs. Someone also said something about continuing the same bad habits? My ex in a nutshell. Docs told him to stop drinking. He hasn't. Told him to stop smoking. Again, nope. He cant even walk on his own power anymore. Needs a walker. And he weighs over 300 pounds.

It won't be long.

[u/latitudesixtysix → u/neenna68]

At 47, Jesus chfrist

[u/neenna68 → u/latitudesixtysix]

My ex was actually 42. I typed 47 for the orange cheeto.

[u/DrDerpberg → u/goosejail]

As much as I hope that's true, there is way too much attention out there for anybody with medical training promising he's going to croak soon. Remember the doctor who made like a 20-part series during his first term about how he'd be to demented to stand up and talk at a podium within months?

I'm not going to count my dead dictators before they croak. I'll be celebrating in the streets when it happens, but not holding my breath.

[u/DemadaTrim → u/[deleted]]

With good health care you can keep someone in congestive heart failure alive for a long time.

[u/ohnovangogh → u/DemadaTrim]

What about someone that eats like shit, never exercises, abused uppers for who knows how long, is morbidly obese, and doesn’t follow a regular sleep schedule?

[u/WhoIsYerWan → u/ohnovangogh]

And is made of rage and hate.

[u/laserdisk4life → u/TheTresStateArea]

Why not both

[u/GetOffMyLawn_ → u/TheTresStateArea]

Been on thinners for decades. With the newer drugs bruising isn’t that bad. Something else is going on.

[u/EMTDawg → u/GetOffMyLawn_]

He has CHF and is getting IV treatment. The IV needle is leaving the bruise.

[u/metao → u/[deleted]]

Man woman person camera IV

[u/Ready_Supermarket_36 → u/[deleted]]

Seriously, he’d have a port installed if it was regularly administered. The bruises could just be from blood thinners, like most elderly people have.

[u/ratchetryda92]

The fact that hes going to such lengths to hide it makes me think its not looking good

[u/FramingLeader → u/ratchetryda92]

That’s just vanity

[u/joebluebob → u/FramingLeader]

Yeah this is a 6"1 man with 3 inch lifts.

[u/ShutUpTodd → u/joebluebob]

he paved the White House grounds so he doesn’t stumble on lawn

[u/Eastern-Heart9486 → u/joebluebob]

5 ft 11 heels and lifts

[u/inconspicuous_male → u/ratchetryda92]

He has always gone to great lengths to hide anything wrong with him. That's not new. And keep in mind, Trump has probably the singularly best healthcare of anyone in the entire world. So he could outlive any prognosis made by internet sleuths

[u/TraditionalClick992 → u/inconspicuous_male]

Except for the oversized bandage on his ear after the shooting. 

[u/NamelessResearcher]

It's a miracle anyone noticed it, his hand is so small.

[u/UncleSaltine → u/NamelessResearcher]

I like to think that, whatever is going on, his hands are swelling up to the point that they're finally normal sized

[u/Ordinary-Leading7405 → u/UncleSaltine]

Yeah but then his hands would feel like two balloons

[u/Cheesenip20 → u/Ordinary-Leading7405]

He has become…comfortably numb

[u/OneSalientOversight → u/Cheesenip20]

"We don't need no education" - Linda McMahon, US Secretary of Education.

"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces." - Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense.

"How I Wish You Were Here" - Trump singing a song about Epstein

"Think I'll buy me a Lear Jet" - Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary

[u/jimgolgari → u/OneSalientOversight]

“Mother, should I run for President?” - Donny to Ivanka

“Black and Blue, and who knows which is which? And who is who?” - Donny’s hands, to each other.

[u/Secret_Initiative_41 → u/Cheesenip20]

Wish I was

[u/MarkEsmiths → u/NamelessResearcher]

To be fair the tiny hand is almost all bruise.

[u/cunticles → u/MarkEsmiths]

I don't know if it's the same but it reminds me the queen also had a bruised hand shortly before she passed away

[u/Adam18290 → u/NamelessResearcher]

Thhhannkss guuuyyy

[u/fowlraul]

Thoughts and don’t cares

[u/bryan49 → u/fowlraul]

I don't care, do you?

[u/PrayForMojo_ → u/bryan49]

I care. Can’t come soon enough.

[u/sswihart → u/fowlraul]

Thoughts and clots.

[u/prlhr → u/sswihart]

Clots and prayers.

[u/timetogetoutside100 → u/[deleted]]

beat me to it! but yeah, sounds like a acceleration !!!

[u/I_AM_THE_BIGFOOT → u/timetogetoutside100]

The big "You're Fired."

[u/No_Good_8561 → u/I_AM_THE_BIGFOOT]

Soon to meet the Big Apprentice in the sky

[u/Obvious_Toe_3006 → u/No_Good_8561]

Wrong direction methinks..

[u/onethousandmonkey → u/[deleted]]

Then what happens? Vance/Miller? Ugh

[u/throwawaylol666666 → u/onethousandmonkey]

Vance doesn’t worry me. Peter Thiel can’t purchase charisma for him. He will not inspire the slavish devotion that Fat Don does.

[u/eyevandy → u/throwawaylol666666]

I honestly think there would be a sizeable MAGA contingent that believed Vance killed him.

[u/iowan → u/eyevandy]

Everybody's saying it.

[u/throwawaylol666666 → u/eyevandy]

You know… I think you’re right.

[u/Popculturemofo → u/eyevandy]

Now that would be crazy and nobody should be putting those kinds of crazy rumors out on the internet for any MAGA to read and then run with. 😉

[u/Zocalo_Photo → u/eyevandy]

Conspiracy theory: the Pope was a trial run.

[u/adhdt5676 → u/throwawaylol666666]

I’m much more worried about the Kevin Roberts guy from Heritage getting in the mix. We all know Vance just backs whoever will get him further

[u/Raintitan → u/onethousandmonkey]

I giant messy power grab. With no alpha dogs left.

[u/GhostofZellers → u/Raintitan]

Exactly, no alpha dogs, just a bunch of butt sniffers.

[u/Nervous_Otter69 → u/onethousandmonkey]

They’ll eat each other alive trying to seize the throne. Will be amazing to watch monkeys fuck football

[u/TheFurryMenace]

But guys!?!? How does this affect Joe Biden’s mental state?

[u/Old-Time6863 → u/TheFurryMenace]

Hunter Biden's dick caused this bruising

[u/FriendToPredators → u/TheFurryMenace]

Joe Biden’s going to still be capable of a decent jog four years after this guy’s no longer breathing 

[u/GayCatDaddy → u/TheFurryMenace]

Mainstream news media: "Trump's hands continually bruised. Here's how this is bad for Joe Biden."

[u/localistand]

He's weak. The National Guard deployments to US cities are meant to project the strength Trump himself so clearly lacks.

[u/FrostyPhotographer → u/localistand]

My fear is this is his final act. Get the pieces in place so if he kicks it, JD can turn be ready to call on them to break up the, what I assume will be, massive fucking celebrations.

[u/Omnio89 → u/FrostyPhotographer]

My biggest question about this whole thing, assuming he goes, does JD really have the charisma and power to assume the MAGA leadership? I more so predict that his death will trigger a bunch of rats abandoning a sinking ship and claiming they never really supported Trump.

[u/reallygoodbee → u/Omnio89]

does JD really have the charisma and power to assume the MAGA leadership?

In a sensical world? No. But he'll just tell them whatever they want to hear and they'll be licking his boots and bowing at his feet before sunset.

[u/g3_SpaceTeam]

Didn’t they bitch for years about how Biden was hiding medical issues? Weird how that doesn’t matter now.

[u/KJS123 → u/g3_SpaceTeam]

Nothing they bitch about EVER matters! They have absultely NO fundimental principles. Whatever they said yesterday doesn't matter to them, so they can say whatever they want today and discard it tomorrow as irrelevent. It's a mental fluidity that they'd be lost without. They're not serious about ANYTHING, except warding off the reality that they've been duped. Make no mistake, they know it. They've just substituted basic decency for "winning". Well, really it's the illusion of winning that they're contenting themselves with. Smoke and mirrors. Culture war hysteria and memes about 'crying libs'.

Yes, it's truly pathetic and it's doing irrepreable harm to both the United States and the larger free world, but they don't care about all that. They'll happily trade a world on fire for those little dopamine hits they get at the thought of 'owning the libs'.

Instead of acknowleding the hypocrisy of their yesterdays, remember that whatever they're screeching about today will be on that pile too, by and by. Treat it with all the seriousness that they treat yesterday's bullshit with, and no more. They REALLY don't like it when you give their lies the same contempt they do, but in real time.

[u/LichtensteinMind008 → u/KJS123]

Exactly. There will be no "gotcha" moment with these people. Any hypocrisy you could point out means nothing. Their only goal is to make sure we are arguing about the price of eggs, or inflation, or the national debt, in order to hide the fact that they're utterly foaming at the mouth to hurt people, and biding their time long enough to get their daddy in the white house.

We are past the point of saying crap like, "If Obama did that you'd riot." They know. They don't care. The whole point is that Daddy is now beating up those meanies that make them feel bad and think. People have got to wake up. There aren't two parties anymore. There's one ineffectual party, and another mob of cultist yes-men eager to watch the world burn.

[u/LemurMemer → u/[deleted]]

If you think about it the dude really won in the end. This is the super villain living out his full lavish life in luxury, shitting on others each step of the way. And just before he was going to receive repercussions for the heinous actions of his life, the sweet embrace of death takes him. Except in our reality he was never going to receive repercussions because he’s rich and powerful and half the country is fine with their cult leader being a pedophile

[u/ShrimpieAC → u/LemurMemer]

He’s the living embodiment of the term “failing upwards”.

[u/YakiVegas → u/ShrimpieAC]

I don't think he fails upwards, I think he was just a pretty great conman who happened to appeal to ignorant racists hurt by capitalism at just the right time in history.

[u/93ImagineBreaker → u/LemurMemer]

We had a chance to punish him but we fumble it for 4 years. Meanwhile American will take decades to fix this.

[u/lalabera → u/[deleted]]

I pray for it every night

[u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay → u/lalabera]

Every time Reddit is down I go check Google to see if it’s finally happened

[u/w4tts → u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay]

Won’t even need the internet to find out. The streets will be making NOISE.

[u/62frog → u/[deleted]]

I desperately want him to kick the bucket so we can get a picture of Joe Biden smiling at his funeral, but I’m afraid of what the right will do if he passes in-office. They will deify him even more and there’s a nonzero part of the population that will say that it’s a conspiracy and the democrats actually killed him because they believe his bullshit doctor saying he’s healthy.

[u/Enelson4275 → u/62frog]

The power vacuum will be one of the largest in human history. The neocons will want a return to Reaganism. The corporate interests will refuse to cede any ground willingly. Christofascists will be fighting a holy war. The Trump family circle will jockey for relevance.

J.D. Vance is not as incapable as those on the left believe, but he doesn't have the capacity to navigate all of this as a figurehead. It's likely that nobody does. What happens when Vance runs in the '28 primary against Don Jr and Dwayne Johnson and Jeff Flake and Joe Rogan? At this point Trump has aligned too many competing interests for anyone else to hold it together.

It'll be especially bloody if Trump passes before the economy truly crumbles. Because at that point Trump will be deified and the inevitable economic hardship will be blamed on whomever managed to first usurp the political power.

[u/fairoaks2]

IV medication? 

[u/sane_sober61 → u/fairoaks2]

So frequently, they have to rotate the port sites. That is a lot of diuretics.

[u/l-Am-Him-1 → u/sane_sober61]

These diuretics may help with the heart failure but end up causing kidney failure

[u/SinisterCroissant → u/l-Am-Him-1]

Depends.

:-D

[u/ricennoodle → u/SinisterCroissant]

Yes he wears those too.

[u/BloodBlizzard → u/SinisterCroissant]

Yes, plenty of those too.

[u/stillcore → u/l-Am-Him-1]

The man is surrounded by failure.

[u/superindianslug → u/stillcore]

And filled with it

[u/NoOffenseImJustSayin → u/l-Am-Him-1]

AKI. The IV diuretics used help with fluid build up due to congestive heart failure cause a condition known as Acute Kidney Injury.

I was raised a Christian so I’m ashamed to say I’ve never looked forward with greater anticipation to any individuals passing more than I do now. I’m tired.

[u/IJourden → u/NoOffenseImJustSayin]

I used to feel similarly.

Eventually I decided that if someone's death objectively, significantly makes the world a better place, it's their own fault when people are happy they die.

[u/DrLophophora → u/l-Am-Him-1]

Good

[u/Turbulent_Length5899 → u/l-Am-Him-1]

Let’s hope. Just kidding, mods!

[u/Turbulent_Length5899 → u/sane_sober61]

Time for a big beautiful PICC line I guess

[u/Samsquanch-Sr → u/fairoaks2]

You mean it's not from left-handed handshakes?

It's absolutely an IV bruise, and if you've ever had one daily for weeks, you recognize this clearly. No question at all.

There are so many non-terrifying reasons for drips, too. I wish they'd just admit to this? People aren't all idiots. Is this all just ego?

[u/Superduperbals → u/Samsquanch-Sr]

The world didn't know Stalin was dying until he was already dead. Franco was kept on life support for weeks in 1975 while Spanish propaganda insisted he was recovering; Mao went blind and mute from ALS while China pretended he was fine; Brezhnev slurred through speeches and could barely walk yet "ruled" the USSR until 1982; Kim Jong-il vanished for months after his 2008 stroke that North Korea never acknowledged; Hitler hid his trembling Parkinson's hand behind his back and under tables; Tito's gangrenous leg was amputated in secret while Yugoslavia claimed he had a "minor circulation problem"; Andropov ran the Soviet Union from a dialysis machine; Chernenko could barely breathe from emphysema yet became Soviet leader anyway; Not just fascists and dictators pulling this shit either, Woodrow Wilson's stroke left his wife secretly running America, and FDR hid his paralysis behind staged photographs.

[u/akestral → u/Superduperbals]

Don't forget Reagan!

[u/remfem99 → u/akestral]

Reagan didn’t know where he was by the start of his second term.

[u/Zomunieo → u/akestral]

In the first term Chief of Staff James Baker ran the show while Reagan acted as president. In the second term Nancy Reagan became more prominent.

[u/sonofagunn → u/Superduperbals]

Bernie was dead for the entire Labor Day weekend and even hosted a party at his house in the Hamptons.

[u/Orwells_Roses → u/Superduperbals]

Thats quite a compilation of sickly dictators, nice work!

[u/hobard → u/Samsquanch-Sr]

Considering his swollen ankles, admitted cardiovascular condition, constant IV bruises, and recent musings about heaven, the “non-terrifying” reasons seem pretty unlikely.

[u/Samsquanch-Sr → u/hobard]

I am saying if you're going to lie, pick a better lie. "Yes, it's an IV bruise, from this totally minor treatment..."

Not "handshakes", for crying out loud.

[u/shapu → u/Samsquanch-Sr]

"The president has a minor chronic condition, and doctors figured it was better for him to get his medication through an IV line than by pills," would be a totally fine, reasonable, and wise way to frame it. 

The fact that they're not doing that demonstrates that first, they're idiots, but secondly, that it's probably a lot more serious than something that can be explained away.

[u/vashoom → u/shapu]

This is the administration that spun Covfefe as a secret message. They absolutely will and do lie about the dumbest possible things.

[u/Samsquanch-Sr → u/shapu]

Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Everyone knows IV drips provide better, faster absorption than pills.

[u/Tomahawk72 → u/hobard]

The heaven comment struck a weird chord with me.

If hes making jokes like that then there is something seriously wrong with his health that hes not telling us.

[u/Special_Persimmon_52 → u/Tomahawk72]

His pondering about getting into heaven was revealing. His mortality is on his mind.

[u/ArthurDentsRobeTie → u/hobard]

"Terrifying" sure is a funny way to spell "optimistic."

[u/Popculturemofo → u/Samsquanch-Sr]

A lot of it is ego. Trump has portrayed this image to his followers that he is at peak physical condition. The MAGA cult literally thinks this 80 year old overweight sack of bones is the embodiment of medical perfection.

[u/pequena80634 → u/Popculturemofo]

“…sack of bones…”. lol. Sack of something, not certain it is bones.

[u/johnnycoxxx → u/Samsquanch-Sr]

The dude doubles down every time he has a misspeak. He can’t even admit that he fumbles a word. So yeah. It’s all ego

[u/Arcanym → u/fairoaks2]

Is it where they inject the bleach and UV light?

[u/epanek → u/fairoaks2]

Well I guess trump accidentally spoke the truth “I want to heaven I guess I’m not doing great though”. That was him spilling his health secret. Not doing great is the message from his doctors. It’s not about his behaviors

[u/swankpoppy → u/fairoaks2]

Remember when Biden first got elected and all the republicans kept talking about how old he was? Yeah… Trump old AF RN

[u/RobertBorden → u/fairoaks2]

Is that were the case, wouldn’t they use sites higher up on his arms?

[u/CynicalBliss → u/RobertBorden]

Depends on his veins. I’m a phlebotomy frequent flyer and my elbows/forearms are terrible for finding viable veins. The hands are usually the secondary go-to, and at least for me easier to find a spot. I’m not quite Trump old, but I’m Trump fat. Honestly I even prefer the hand for an IV.

[u/FeedMeYourGoodies]

He must be shaking hands with his left hand now!

[u/adalaza]

God owes us one for Cheney

[u/MusikMadchen → u/adalaza]

I had to Google it but that fucker is STILL alive. This is why I have no expectation that Trumps deteriorating health means anything.

[u/DoomOne → u/MusikMadchen]

Well, you have to keep in mind that Cheney actually did try to maintain his health. Trump eats cheeseburgers like it was breathing air and believes that exercise "drains his life battery".

He can't be in tippity top shape.

[u/stickyfan1230 → u/DoomOne]

Plus i am sure he is a lot older than Cheney was at the time. EDIT: just looked it up. Cheney was 71 in 2012 when he had his heart transplant. Not much younger, but still…

[u/SouperDrangus → u/stickyfan1230]

Eh, 39 and 31 isn’t much of a difference. 79 and 71 is prettyyy big for medical intervention

[u/missed_sla → u/MusikMadchen]

Alive is kind of a stretch here, I think he's actually a draugr and we need to force him back into the ground

[u/q_eyeroll → u/adalaza]

Don’t forget Mitch.

[u/Choice-of-SteinsGate]

It's no coincidence that Trump was recently lamenting not getting into heaven...

He's having to come to terms with his mortality now because his doctors likely diagnosed him with a severe heart and/or kidney condition and not just a symptom of the condition—chronic venous insufficiency—that's strictly associated with his old age and is no cause for alarm.

This is how MAGA tried to rationalize it when a story that downplayed Trump's poor health conveniently appeared alongside images of his severely swollen ankles.

Of course, MAGA will demand sympathy for the old, decrepit man and insist that his obvious physical and mental decline is not being "covered up."

They'll demand respect for Trump while they spent the better part of Joe Biden's term drumming up conspiracy theories about him, antagonizing and insulting him, mocking and ridiculing him, decrying his lack of fitness, even suggesting things as wild as him being a clone. Trump jumped on that too if you don't remember. He actually posted this on social media:

"There is no Joe Biden – executed in 2020. Biden clones, doubles and robotic engineered soulless, mindless entities are what you see. Democrats don't know the difference."

And while Trump is showing signs of becoming increasingly more unhinged by the day, he is still managing to find time to publicly denigrate and blame this alleged Biden "clone" for all of our country's problems whenever he gets the opportunity.

I suspect that along with birthright citizenship, the two term limit, due process, the emoluments clause, the first amendment, etc, Trump and MAGA will set their sights on challenging the 25th amendment so that Trump can still cling to power long after he's been clearly designated unfit to serve.

[u/BlackCaaaaat → u/Choice-of-SteinsGate]

And while Trump is showing signs of becoming increasingly more unhinged by the day, he is still managing to find time to publicly denigrate and blame this alleged Biden "clone" for all of our country's problems whenever he gets the opportunity.

This lunatic can launch nukes.

[u/Turbulent_Length5899]

I’m gonna assume that his venous access sucks and the only thing they could find was in his hand

[u/AzRamrod → u/Turbulent_Length5899]

I’m sure his care staff has access to an ultrasound machine. I’m sure they would find a way to get IV access that wasn’t this visible.

[u/Fungool001 → u/Turbulent_Length5899]

The veins in hands are often used because they are closest to the surface. They found that using the ones in the inner elbow are not as accessible and the elbow has to be immobilized.

[u/adhdt5676 → u/Fungool001]

I will second this. Whenever I’ve gotten surgery, they somehow always choose my elbows and I’m like a statue until they’re removed lol

I also hate needles so that might play a role in it haha

[u/spqrnbb → u/adhdt5676]

I really prefer the wrist or back of the hand for IVs when possible. Granted, I'm definitely one of the people whose veins are piss-poor and covered in a lot of fat, but I've had one too many blowouts of the vein in my elbow for my liking.

[u/BeerExchange]

Bruises on both hands yet he has an ear that is scarless. Really makes you think doesn’t it?

[u/BrokenGlare2024]

What a kicker it would be Trump kicks the bucket and Biden keeps on rocking it.

[u/Goshawk5]

I'm not paying attention to his hands. I'm looking at his sunken eyes. Those look exactly like my grandmother right before she passed at 79.

[u/Desertnurse760]

Nurse here. If he were getting regular IV's, they'd likely put a PICC line in, which would be located on the inside of his upper arm where it would be very difficult to spot. The likely cause are anticoagulants used to prevent blood from clotting in the lungs, legs, heart, etc. This would be in line with his press secretary stating that he is being treated for DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) i.e Blood Clots.

[u/VaguelyArtistic → u/Desertnurse760]

This would be in line with his press secretary stating that he is being treated for DVT

Don’t forget he’s also suffering from DJT.

[u/Commercial_Yak_1637 → u/VaguelyArtistic]

We are all suffering from DJT

[u/xMyDixieWreckedx → u/Commercial_Yak_1637]

He has the best DJT, no one has ever DJTed like him.

[u/Turbulent_Length5899 → u/VaguelyArtistic]

DJT? Fuck, ain’t nothing more toxic than that.

[u/KatBeagler → u/Desertnurse760]

Are the clots going to be okay?

[u/LA0711 → u/KatBeagler]

Clots and prayers

[u/TopTransportation695]

Cholesterol do your stuff!

[u/quite_a_gEnt → u/TopTransportation695]

heart disease has a big chance to redeem itself this year.

[u/wavinsnail]

Everytime I read a Trump 79 headline my heart feels lighter, and then I'm disappointed 

[u/RockVonCleveland → u/wavinsnail]

Donald Trump, 79, found dead tired

Donald Trump, 79, passed on highway

The body of Donald Trump, 79, still fat

[u/fatcatwantsfood → u/wavinsnail]

You know It makes me feel a tiny bit better knowing there’s others whose feeling this way too

[u/Raspberries-Are-Evil]

He is on his way out.

[u/dblan9]

We need to start very publicly coordinating all of the requirements and selling tickets to massive parade parties so he knows just how happy we will be when he kicks.

[u/DeuceGnarly → u/dblan9]

We need to start circulating plans for rallies, getting celebrities booked, bands, you name it - just let the worthless sack of shit know how we feel before it's too late.

[u/couchshredder30]

This man is really going to die and get off the hook for his entire life of rape, scamming, warmongering, crime, and murder isn’t he? It’s always the worst ones who get the easiest exits. Then we wonder why atheists are on the rise

[u/trumpuniversity_ → u/couchshredder30]

He was never going to face consequences in this life. Not in a world that’s owned by billionaires.

Settling for the next best option isn’t so bad.

[u/Haunting-Savings7097 → u/couchshredder30]

If it makes you feel any better, someone with his level of narcissism facing their own mortality will be the most terrifying thing of his entire life. And eventually it will happen, and he will be in emotional hell. Unless he dies suddenly I guess. Which is a great reason to not do some stupid thing like that sniper kid did. He can suffer by dying like everyone else, in the setting of narcissism. Nobody should ease his suffering by making it fast.

[u/RedCrayonTastesBest → u/Haunting-Savings7097]

They could ease our suffering by making it fast though

[u/real0987]

Can you imagine there is a woman who was raped at 14 years old. The man who raped her is now president of the United States. Just imagine that... mind blowing 🤯

[u/kevendo]

Well, he has successfully united the entire world with at least one great hope!

[u/jim-james--jimothy]

Little kids are slapping his hands away. Release the Epstein files.

[u/Stranger-Sun]

He's more bruise than man now. Twisted and evil.

[u/Slippery-ape]

Thats why Vance getting all those vacations in, he knows he is gonna be running it soon.

[u/mistertickertape]

Congestive heart failure. IV Diuretics. I’ve seen a couple opinions from cardiologists regarding his prognosis - one was 6 months, the other as high as a year.

[u/Infranto → u/mistertickertape]

The one going viral on TikTok right now is from a doctor of physical therapy, not a doctor of medicine (and definitely not a cardiologist). And he just gave anecdotal quotes stating "here's how long CHF patients that I've seen have lived."

Take comments from anyone on the internet with a massive grain of salt and make sure they actually have the credentials to back up their claims.

[u/_still_truckin_ → u/mistertickertape]

They always say that you can’t kill pure evil. I’m not getting my hopes up until they separate his head from his body.

[u/300ConfirmedShaves]

I can only hope that it hurts constantly, and that he's scared and in pain every day until he kicks the proverbial bucket and takes the express elevator to the depths of hell.

[u/Ainvb]

Can’t wait to see Gavin’s team weave cankles into their game.

[u/bonobo__bonobo]

Hamburger from the sky do your thing

[u/apert]

His base will fucking strangle a kid to give this piece of shit a heart transplant.

[u/Winner-Living]

Wouldn't it be crazy if Biden went to Trump's funeral?

[u/robodrew]

It's almost like Trump is old as fuck. My stepfather is in his late 70s and he gets random bruises on his arms and hands, usually from doing nothing. Maybe his hand hits the side of the bed at night or something. Literally anything can cause it, because his skin is literally super thin these days and his capillaries are fragile.

I'm not trying to excuse anything regarding Trump. Just saying he's too god damned old to be running this nation. He should be relaxing at home while doctors check his vitals daily. I mean, really, he should be in fucking prison. But you get what I'm saying.