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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,365 posts)
Sat May 16, 2026, 08:48 PM Saturday

Trump's Cankles Make a Surprise Cameo in China

Donald Trump’s cankles made a brief appearance during the president’s three-day state visit to China this week.

While Trump, 79, managed to keep his lower legs largely hidden throughout the trip, a CNN segment with Jake Tapper and Kaitlan Collins on Friday featured footage of the president sitting next to Chinese President Xi Jinping with his swollen ankles very much visible.

Additional video of the two leaders taking a walk shows Trump appearing to lumber as they walk down a concrete pathway, with Xi pointing out an off-camera feature to his American counterpart.

But if Trump displayed his well-known medical problem, he gushed about Chinese President Xi’s body. Trump told Sean Hannity on Thursday that if someone were making a film featuring a Chinese leader, they wouldn’t have to look beyond the 72-year-old Communist Party chief.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-cankles-surprise-cameo-china-164527335.html

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Trump's Cankles Make a Surprise Cameo in China (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday OP
Trump is gushing about another man's body. Irish_Dem Saturday #1
Who does his damn makeup? Clearly missed some spots vapor2 Saturday #2
I don't know who is applying the make up but -- Grammy23 Yesterday #3
C'mon, Grim Reaper, do your thing Rob H. Yesterday #4
With lifts in the shoes Liberal In Texas Yesterday #5
"His cankles are the first thing I noticed about him." Kid Berwyn Yesterday #6

Grammy23

(6,131 posts)
3. I don't know who is applying the make up but --
Sun May 17, 2026, 12:26 AM
Yesterday

He has resumed using a pumpkin shade foundation that is poorly spread around. And it is never gets applied to his ears or around his hair line. he also has strangely white raccoon eyes. The color of his foundation is a rather sickening shade of pumpkin. Can he not look in a mirror and see how bad that color looks? It i# especially awful in daylight.

Rob H.

(5,913 posts)
4. C'mon, Grim Reaper, do your thing
Sun May 17, 2026, 02:37 AM
Yesterday

Can’t you be cool just this once?

Trump frequently “man spreads” when seated during meetings, with his clasped hands hanging between his legs, which draws attention. He has said he doesn’t like wearing compression socks, which doctors have encouraged him to use because of the cankles. He turns 80 in a matter of weeks.

Noncompliance when he’s as decrepit as he is is just asking for it.

Liberal In Texas

(16,419 posts)
5. With lifts in the shoes
Sun May 17, 2026, 07:26 AM
Yesterday

The one on the right looks like his heel is out of the back of the shoe.
And the shoe heel itself adds another inch or so.

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