I mean sure seems like something a Harvard rowing team coxswain would be saying is happening.
Trump's Drooping Face Draws Questions and Alarm
https://www.distractify.com/p/trump-drooping-face
https://www.distractify.com/p/trump-drooping-face
I mean sure seems like something a Harvard rowing team coxswain would be saying is happening.
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snooggums@piefed.world · 114 pts · 356d
He absolutely had a stroke. His bruised hand is probably from being hooked ip to an IV and being really, really old. The side effects are confusion, trouble being coherent, and other mental problems he already had so at least those won't be as noticeable as they would be on a regular person.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 356d
another side effect is ai generated official tv appearance
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 32 pts · 356d
Which explains the AI edited appearance.... To cover for the ailment.
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 356d
Lol... we can never really know because he's looked and acted like a stroke victim for years.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 356d
He's probably been having them for years
Once you have one they become more and more common, and the common they are they more likely you are to hit a serious (life ending) one.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 356d
hes probably on anti-clotting medication, which can cause bruising and bleeding. clots which makes you prone to strokes.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 355d
I'm pretty damned old and just had a cannula in my hand for a couple of days because I had surgery that required me to be knocked out. No hematoma. For him to have gotten one of those, either a nurse fucked up or he's on blood thinners.
And yeah, there's some evidence he's been having mini-strokes on and off for at least a year. Here's hoping they get progressively worse, and he sees nothing in his future but worsening debility and helplessness, surrounded by people who despise him. May he survive long into his term, just to frustrate Vance's ambitions. A long power struggle as his flunkies try to remove him from office while dishing the dirt on his incompetence and dementia will also be wonderfully humiliating and will make Vance seem even more like the backstabbing weasel he already is.
snooggums@piefed.world · 5 pts · 355d
I'd rather he croaked earlier because Vance doesn't have the same belligerence that has led to declaring war on US cities and he doesn't have the cult following that enables it when Trump does that shit. Vance would be actively undercut by the party and it would fall back to infighting.
If nothing else it wouldn't be worse now and I wouldn't have to hear about Trump as much.
garth@sh.itjust.works · 73 pts · 356d
teft@piefed.social · 63 pts · 356d
JFC that's not a little bit of a droop. That's almost definitely signs of a stroke. A guy I knew at work looked exactly the same after his stroke. Trump looked relatively normal at the u.s. open a few days ago and you'd think after a stroke he'd at least take a week or two off given his advanced age and "robust" health. Maybe it's bell's palsy or someone smacked him upside the head with a frying pan?
Edit: Also this article seems a little on the nose.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 356d
If it was done with a frying pan ... they should have done the other side too just to even things out and not make it so noticeable.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 356d
He can’t take time off. He believes it’ll make him look “weak” and he’ll lose control of the narrative.
And deliciously, him trying to push through and play strong man will kill him even quicker. I seriously wonder if he’s starting to question his mortality or is just completely ignorant.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 356d
Given his comments about getting into heaven, he absolutely is.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 356d
He is. He's been telling his dumbass fans to donate money to "help him get to heaven"
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 355d
He's going to try to bribe St Peter, isn't he?
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 355d
He disappeared for Labor Day weekend. Like all of it. Not a normal Trump weekend at all. The first interview afterwards was a private interview with a right wing outlet.
Then the AI facepaint video about Kirk.
The only thing that doesn’t fit with the coverup is the taking in front of Marine 1 if I have the timeline right.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 356d
The last time he disappeared for 4 days, everyone assumed he was dead. Now he can't take any time off, or the rumor mill will really start spewing.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 356d
That is not a guy who filmed the Kirk apology video the night before.
stickly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 356d
It probably is, dude weekend at Donnie'd himself
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 356d
look at melania, she must be estatic hes about to pass.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 356d
Dude could be stroking out right there, and she'd just call a lawyer to make sure the will is secure.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 355d
Or maybe that's the look he gets when he's pinching a loaf.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 356d
Justin Trudeau on speedial...
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 356d
I don't see JT taking that call
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 355d
Too busy with Katy Perry, which really isn’t any less weird to me.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 354d
Melania surely made a very careful and open-eyed calculation before marrying DJT. I wonder if she still thinks she's above water on the deal.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 356d
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 356d
I highly doubt she does. It marinates in his own shit 24-7
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 355d
I'm not convinced that all the Viagra in the world could rouse that rotten toadstool to action.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 356d
Looking like how my grandpa looked shortly before he died. Granted I've said that before and the bastard is still here but here's to hoping it goes through this time
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 356d
Oof yeah thats an old man who's unlikely to make enough of a recovery to be doing speeches for a living again. Didn't see if it's full body sagittal droop or just facial. Former says stroke, latter says palsy. Like neither is good for him but palsy is manageable, stroke in a 79 year old is entirely likely to be the beginning of the end.
stickly@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 356d
You can see in the clip he checks his left hand with a lift but can't match it with his right hand. Similarly, he conspicuously doesn't move his right hand in his most recent recorded speech.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 356d
Oh wow that is a subtle but juicy detail, sure looks like exactly that to me, nice catch!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 356d
that explains melania so close to him, melania is going to reap his soul soon.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 355d
She's just staying close in case he tries to change his will.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 355d
Latter can also say stroke, just localized to the area of the brain that controls the facial nerve.
My hope is that something blows out in his brainstem. If he survives it, there's no way he'd be able to hide the effects of that.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 356d
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 356d
Give him some credit. At least he's not asleep, like at the pope's funeral.
bstix@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 356d
I wouldn't consider this "not sleeping" either. It appears that he's in some state of mental limbo.
If this isn't a stroke, then his doctor should probably check for zombie bite marks.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 356d
Damn.
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 51 pts · 356d
Concern is the wrong word, delight is the correct word. The sooner he dies the better.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 356d
Nah, if he dies too soon Vance has more time to cement his power. He needs to wait like 2 years and 8 months.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 356d
If he dies soon enough this counts as Vance's first term for 22nd amendment purposes.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d
As if that matters to Republicans anymore.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 355d
I really wish I could say you're just being an alarmist.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 356d
Vance is not capable of that.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 356d
At this point I don't believe you have to be liked to seize power.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 356d
He doesn't know how to move the leavers of power. Every congress critter in the GOP who thinks they have a shot in 2028 will be looking to tear him down.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 355d
No, if it's more than 2 years into Trump's term, then he still gets to serve two full terms. He could conceivably serve for 10 years. He needs to take over sooner than that.
Besides, bad as Vance is, every day with Trump is far worse. At least if Vance took over Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller would probably be out quickly. He's Trump's Wormtongue, whispering poison into his ear, and with pair of them gone, some of the worst behavior would calm down a bit.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 356d
I would rather not have to live through 2 years and 8 months more of this waking nightmare
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 356d
Just know that it doesn't get better under Vance.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 354d
3years 3months https://presidentialtermclock.com/
Eldritch@piefed.world · 6 pts · 356d
Sadly, there is an ever-ending shit-shoot of potential other candidates to follow. They won't have to capture his audience or be as "charismatic" as he is. As things fall apart and degrade. They will just crack down as authoritarians do. On innocent people of every stripe.
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 356d
I would have preferred the last three years of his miserable life spent in a maximum security prison, but as it seems like the law doesn't exist in the US anymore I will accept a series of strokes leading to shitting himself and collapsing on a stage in public. I'm okay with that trade.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 356d
Are these people unaware of who is president?
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 356d
And the most important question is: Where are the Epstein files?
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 356d
Draws questions and alarm?
Question: When will he finally croak?
Alarm: They will be wasting millions to keep this rotting corpse alive for as long as possible.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 356d
Without him, the Astronomican will collapse! We must feed him one thousand innocent babes a day to keep him alive on his golden throne.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 355d
FOR THE EMPEROR!
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 356d
Lol. I wouldn't call it "alarm".
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 23 pts · 356d
Yeah more like breathless anticipation
HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 355d
but being worried about being let down yet again.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 355d
More like being sick and tired of his shit.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 354d
What's alarming is how hard it is to flush that ever-returning turd.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 356d
Idk what they’re talking about it’s drawing joy and schadenfreude from me
x00z@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 356d
"Draws alarm"?
Yep, it's the party alarm.
Linktank@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 356d
"Fears of joy"
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 356d
Fears over my lack of PTO to be able to party that day.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 355d
Jeez, why doesn't he just blow a gasket and get it the hell over with?
Patches@ttrpg.network · 12 pts · 355d
He is already leaking fluids, and solids, on a daily basis. There are multiple confirmed reports.
Not sure what gasket you are referring to
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 6 pts · 355d
repairing a blown head gasket in a car is often a repair that costs more than the car would be worth. maybe that's what they meant?
js346235476@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 354d
Only in this case using a band aid would be more than the car is worth.
Pat@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 354d
Aorta. That'd be lovely. Dissecting aortic aneurysm.
Aeri@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 354d
I mean if there was justice in the world I like to imagine a giant demonic hand would burst up through the ground and grab him so tightly his eyes bulge out and drag him screaming down to actual biblical hell but we can't always get what we want unfortunately.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 16 pts · 356d
Him being a dumb fascist who raped children doesn't draw an alarm? His ugly face does.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 356d
Get your fireworks and champagne ready
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 356d
While I won't wish Mango Mussolini a quick death, how hilarious and poetic would it be if he just had a splash of Bell's Palsy?
For those of you who don't know, go look up the name of one of the viruses that causes Bell's Palsy and join me in a sensible chuckle!
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 356d
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 356d
If you are talking about herpes, over half of us have it. You can contract it during birth if your mom has an active infection even. I thought it was gonna be something crazy lol
iglou@programming.dev · 4 pts · 356d
It is a specific virus of the herpes family, with a very fitting name
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 306d
Hmmm...
NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 355d
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 356d
Can news organizations please PLEASE stop it with the headlines that are all ALARM! BE AFRAID! SLAMS! RIPS! EMERGENCY!
We have already enough to be anxious about without them helping. I don't care if this is about the Cheeto or Obama or my mother. Stop it with the clickbait headlines for every single headline.
Make Jews Boring Again, the way news is supposed to be!
Andonyx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
What did they do to you?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 355d
News organizations? .... What I said, since about a year or two the head lines became more sensationalized to the point where every news article IS NOW AN URGENT EMERGENCY!
AngryRobot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 355d
No, the Jews.
krunklom@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 355d
You wrote Jews but I think you meant news.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 9 pts · 356d
You want to hear something scary? The most likely candidate to take over MAGA movement is MTG.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 356d
I doubt that will happen; no matter how batshit crazy her takes are, she's still a woman and that's a disqualifier.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · -5 pts · 356d
Have you seen her?
MJKee9@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 356d
She's a stooge and a useful idiot... She doesn't have the ear of anyone important. Hell, i don't think she's on any legislative committees, which tells me nobody important is backing her.
Edit: just looked at the committees she's a part of. Her only appointment of note is being chair of DOGE....i rest my case.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 356d
Who in the party supported Trump during his first campaign? The whole party was against him. Until he won.
(edit: technically his second campaign)
MJKee9@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d
It's not the "party" that matters.... It's who is giving money to the party. Sometimes it takes a minute for the donors to settle on the same horse.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 1 pts · 356d
And last time they settled on Trump who didn't have any support inside the party. So what makes you think they can't settle on MTG now? Clearly they don't look on how many committees someone is sitting.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 356d
The question is whether or not the base will follow. Trump may have been a singular phenomenon.
Probably wishful thinking though.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 356d
I doubt it, but she's definitely going to try. So will every other MAGA with a reputation, include media types.
MAGA is a cult of personality, and once Trump assumes room temperature, so will MAGA. But they won't want to let it go, so Don Jr, Vance, Hegseth, Bondi, Rubio, Patel, Empty G, Boobert, Loomer, Hawley, Johnson, Cotton, DeSatan, etc. will all be stabbing each other in the back.
It will be ferocious and endlessly entertaining.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 356d
Nobody will take over. They'll fight amongst themselves, but they were all choosen for loyalty to Trump first and competence a distant second.
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 356d
A total lack of competence didn't stop Trump.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 356d
He has intelligence of a sort. He can move crowds of people with a certain mindset. That's not a skill you can just take for granted, and none of his sycophants can do it.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 356d
Denzel kept making that same face in that new Spike Lee movie, so it might be nothing.
I say he should avoid see a doctor about it, and wait until gets much, much worse. Then ignore it for a while longer, because it will probably go away.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 356d
Seeing a doctor? Sounds like socialism!
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 356d
cant wait for his face to droop all over his keyboard making him RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES by accident
classic@fedia.io · 6 pts · 356d
Define "alarm"
SPRUNT@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 356d
Think "spring break air horn".
BYR-BYR:BYR-BYR-BYRRRRRR!!
Psythik@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d
As in "sound the party alarm!"
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 354d
When he dies the right will just tell themselves the dems poisoned him.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 354d
Ronald McDonald and Diet Coke?
tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 354d
I rather think they will just reanimate him like Weekend at Bernie’s.
Salvo@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 356d
Probably an overdose of Botulinum Toxin.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 356d
im surprised that trump, being so vain and shallow about appearance isnt on plastic surgery like MS melania is.
Salvo@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 356d
He probably is but Plastic Surgery Technology can only do so much.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/182429-if-a-person-has-ugly-thoughts-it-begins-to-show
peteyestee@feddit.org · 3 pts · 356d
Oh shit malania has it too…
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 356d
You need a heart for that to happen
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 356d
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 356d