Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that he takes a higher dose of aspirin than his doctors have recommended, blaming that for the visible hand bruises that have generated renewed questions about his health.
The interview appeared to be one of the most extensive conservations Trump has had with journalists on his health, as scrutiny has intensified this year over his age, fitness for office and whether he’s being sufficiently transparent with his medical information.
Trump has long had bruising on his right hand, which CNN has reported predated his return to the White House. But it drew more attention after he began trying to cover it with heavy makeup and bandages and shield it from cameras with his other hand. Observers have also raised concerns about swelling in his legs and his appearing to doze during public events.
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GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 243d
That’s a good idea; I’m thinking Trump should probably take 4x-5x daily just to be on the safe side.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 243d
It would probably be safer with some warfarin on board, too.
LordMayor@piefed.social · 23 pts · 243d
And he should shave with a straight razor before he’s had anything to eat.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 243d
In the warm bath with a toaster
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 243d
In a building with its original wiring from the 1890s.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 242d
earthing is woke anyway, he should just remove it
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 242d
Ha ha ha. Found the electrical engineer.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 242d
im afraid the razor will just glide of the excess amount of sweat and orange concealer he uses.
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 243d
Please
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 242d
About 48x a daily aspirin is the maximum dose in 24 hours.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 242d
I wonder how age affects the LD50?
archonet@lemy.lol · 66 pts · 242d
JUST DIE ALREADY GOD DAMNIT.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 242d
Embroider this on a pillow.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
I can't embroider, but I can make a cute lil cross stitch of it
setsubyou@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 243d
Heh.
homes@piefed.world · 44 pts · 243d
He must think there’s somebody stupid enough out there to believe what he had to say.
Then again, tens of millions of people did vote for him…
Shaking hands doesn’t cause that type of bruising on the back of the hand, and neither does aspirin. You know it does? IV needles, which are, not infrequently, inserted into veins on top of the hand.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 243d
There are 77 million of them.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 242d
aspirin can, if you take enough of it.
homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 242d
Yeah, OK, Trump
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 242d
Take more. Don't let those quacks tell you what to do. More.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 34 pts · 242d
Since Tylenol apparently causes autism, can we now decide that Aspirin causes dementia? Just curious.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 242d
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 242d
Yeah, because JD Couchfucker would be so much better.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 242d
He is probably worse, but he doesn't really hold any political capital so it's probably way better. Once JD is in the hot seat I bet every dubiously legal thing the admin has done falls in his lap and he gets impeached.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 242d
Peter Theil OWNS Vance, and keeps him on a short leash. If Vance becomes president, Theil will be running the show.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d
He would remove most tariffs and the economy, because it was already short of picking up before tariffs, would bounce back and likely do well. Because of that he would likely be looked at as making things “better“ and then we would end up with another 6 years of MAGA republicans. Because of that we will not see him in any legal hot seat. It’s just wishful thinking. Nothing in the last 10 years has shown it would turn into anything good for the “left” rather than just backfire.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 242d
And the last 10 years have been dominated by trump, trump is politics.
Also the damage is done, it would take decades to repair what was done. Its not just a switch, especially with extent they have gone so far. Trade deals have been ripped up, basically all soft power was eliminated by DOGE, government has been looted, new trading relationships have been established between nations, nations are starting to turn away from the dollar. And all that debt won't go away.
Prices don't go down. The US stock market is propped up by GPU sales to people who can't even use them and the assumption that they will keep buying more even though it's near impossible to even obtain the energy to plug them in, let alone have a real use case for profitability.
Whoever is in charge after Trump is going to have real work. It will take terms before this is repaired, if it even can be. Realistically all this comes down to is a need for a massive redistribution of wealth. And it would all technically need to happen with Congress driving it.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 242d
If the next few elections see an increase in Progressives in the House and Senate, and they spend their first efforts crushing and purging MAGA from the government and our society, then we can at least start turning things around. But we will never fix this country, or even get on track to do that, if we have MAGA constantly giving everything to the Sociopathic Oligarchs.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d
I agree with your sentiment, but American voters only care about whatever happened in short term memory. I’d love to believe that somehow Trump has that level of a hold, but I don’t think he does if he isn’t here. I think his supporters move on, and I think if Vance is in power it turns worse for all of us given history, but I’d love to be wrong.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 242d
I mean one of us will be proven right eventually. Because if Trump survives and if they even do a primary we will see if Vance can win.
The sad reality is that things are on track to get worse for Americans no matter who is in charge unless there is some miraculous change in Congress which would require sweeping wins for Democrats 2 election cycles in a row and a shit load of corrupt dinosaurs on both sides being primaried.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 242d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 242d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 242d
If the next few elections see an increase in Progressives in the House and Senate, and they spend their first efforts crushing and purging MAGA from the government and our society, then we can at least start turning things around. But we will never fix this country, or even get on track to do that, if we have MAGA constantly giving everything to the Sociopathic Oligarchs.
echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 242d
Yeah but the cult doesn't like him do they. They still blame him for not supporting the insurrection.
He's not good at the mad hatter routine that Trump pulls off but also not competent enough to actually be an effective president. I was watching a video the other day and it randomly had a clip of George Bush Jr in it. It was weird watching it because he sounded entirely intelligent, perfectly coherent and totally competent. That's what comparison does for you I guess.
boogiebored@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
God I can hear the speech now…
THE LIBERAL MEDIA TOOK OUR LORD AND SAVIOR DONALD J TRUMP IN HIS SLEEP. THE CONSTANT FIGHTING AND REPEATED ATTACKS ON OUR HERO AFTER YEARS OF MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN WERE TOO MANY FOR THE GODKING
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 242d
Immediately followed by an advertisement to buy the Donald Trump commemorative plate.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 242d
it also increases bleeding too.
Cheems@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
Asking for an entire planet
MOARbid1@piefed.social · 29 pts · 243d
Bleed Out Bleed Out Bleed Out!
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 243d
The very fact that he's still alive is proof that prayers don't work.
Maybe a hamberder or two will do it. One can only hope.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 243d
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 243d
My memory tells me this is a real photo from his first term. When he fed that basketball team, when the government was shut down, so he had no kitchen staff.
But logic tells me this isn't real. This can't be real. None of this is real. It can't be! This makes no sense! This is all just a bad dream....
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 243d
Yea, it's an old (real) photo. I have a few like this on my screensaver just in case my blood pressure gets too low.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 242d
It's real. They said the food was cold as well.
Nobody should have to eat cold McDonalds
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 243d
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 243d
I very much doubt he's in charge of what pills he takes much less knows what pills he takes. Frankly at this point I'm shocked he's not taking colloidal silver.
Drusas@fedia.io · 8 pts · 242d
Maybe he should!
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 242d
I've heard that colloidal silver can turn one's skin blue. I wonder what happens when that person has orange skin, considering they're on opposite ends of the color wheel. Does it balance out to a normal skin tone?
meco03211@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 242d
Maybe he'd turn brown and just switch to promoting minority rights like Cartman in the ginger episode.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 242d
I could very easily see him taking aspirin on his own.
He wakes up and decides to put on that hideous orange concealer every day. No one is telling him to do that, he found that on his own and thought it was great and decided to wear it everyday. Why is it so hard to believe that he pops an aspirin everyday off some decades old advice about baby aspirin that he misunderstood?
BanMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
I have a feeling he only showers once a week or so, which saves time in his skincare routine. Would also explain why he's rumored to smell like literal shit.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 242d
I hope he dies in the stupidest, most humiliating way possible. And soon.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 242d
I don’t. I hope he strokes out and becomes trapped in his own body. I want MAGA to see a frail, weak, pathetic flesh bag.
SoloCritical@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 242d
I don’t love this comment.. it implies people who have had a stroke are frail, weak and pathetic. Although I share your disdain for Trump, I’m not sure I agree with this particular sentiment.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d
I wasn’t implying anything. This is the outcome from HIS stroke I want to see.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 242d
Accidentally shits his pants in a mcdonalds and the sudden change in pressure in his body causes his organs to collapse all at once and as he falls to the floor, with his dying breath, he exclaims:
"doctors tell me i have the best death, actually, some say , in the world. They dont make deaths like they used to, but im bringing them back, good deaths, they will be back, they will come back, the good deaths, i think, like rambo. It'll be like the movies, with the action hero... err... the guys with the guns, they dont get hit, the hullets just miss em, like me. Bullets cant get me, they tried to do it, i was on stage, it was a BIG event and the democrats, biden, they tried to shoot me. They failed, they missed, because they needed republican guns. If that was a republican they wouldnt have missed, my brains would be all over the crowd behind me. They would have needed staws to clean it all up, so i am bringing back plastic straws, not those paper ones, they fall apart in your mouth....."
Reports of the rest of what he said differ vastly.
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 242d
I hope it's of natural causes on live TV
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 243d
Had a friend who mixed aspirin with blood thinners. Her nose started bleeding and wouldn't stop. She looked like a murder victim when I drove her to the ER.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 242d
I hope he's in constant pain
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 242d
It'd be nice if it gave him an ulcer, that then got perforated.
But it's more likely he's just lying yet again.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 243d
I'm a Free Thinking Republican who saw ALL of this FIRST HAND when he Dozed off During a Conference I was watching so I KNOW this is FAKE NEWS!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 243d
There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have thought this was satire. I still hope this is satire.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
It is - BigMacHole comments in this Trump-satire style on other posts as well.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 242d
when ONION was satire, now its just real news, that isnt captured by the MSM.
Minimac@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 242d
I don’t give a fuck about his health.
Janx@piefed.social · 6 pts · 242d
I do. I care very much. I hope he continues to not listen to his doctors and bigly departs from their advice.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
Because manly men can’t listen to doctors; they have to exceed the dosage!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 242d
that explains why he bruised so easily, like mcconnel did. aspirin increased your chances of bleeding excessively, due to it intefering with clotting.
schema@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 242d
Maybe that's is why them told him to say that in the interview. Even if it's plausible i don't believe a thing that comes out of this guy's mouth without proof.
Computeforloot@twit.social · 2 pts · 243d
@MicroWave 😂 😂
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 242d
Aspirin is a blood thinner I have no idea why Americans seem to think it's a painkiller, because it isn't.
If you overdose on them your blood turns to water this is not a good thing for so many reasons but it's extra bad for the elderly since their veins are kind of leaky anyway. Fortunately it's Trump we're talking about so no one cares.
village604@adultswim.fan · 14 pts · 242d
What are you talking about? Aspirin is absolutely a pain killer. It's an NSAID that also has blood thinning properties.
The doses used for long term blood thinning is at least 50% lower than the dose used for pain relief.
stickly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 242d
Because a blood thinner relieves some common pains like headaches and inflammation. But yes, people do think taking more = less pain which isn't really true.
echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 242d
It relieves headaches because it relieves pressure.
stickly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d
Well yes it has quite a few different mechanisms, but the most prominent ones are related to blood clotting, inflammation and fever responses. Those work in different ways depending on what you're trying to treat, so you may be right there.
It's not a pain killer in the same sense as an opioid, but the minor pain relief (via targeting symptoms) is the main desired effect. That makes people misuse it and think higher doses work better and for any type of pain.
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 242d
Cool story bro.
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d
Make sure to use that horse dewormer.