Trump's hand makeup has returned after questions about president's health over swollen ankle sightings

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Saturday 23 August 2025 17:58 BST


Donald Trump was seen Friday in Washington D.C., with makeup applied to his hand again after recent questions about the 79-year-old president’s health.

A large patch of what appeared to be foundation, in a lighter shade than his skin, was clearly visible during President Trump’s visit to an exhibit at the People’s House museum.

Later in the day, during a World Cup event in the Oval Office, Trump kept his left hand folded over his right as he made remarks, but the makeup was again visible when he stood up.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not address the makeup but referenced Trump’s frequent hand-shaking in a statement Saturday. “President Trump is a man of the people, and he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis than any other President in history. His commitment is unwavering, and he proves that every single day,” Leavitt told The Independent.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-health-hand-makeup-b2813029.html

[CanonRay]

1. Sweet Jesus just fucking die already

[Henry203]

2. Nah debilitating stroke

Where he becomes wheel chair bound and can’t talk but understands everything.

[Orrex]

9. We're past that point

He needs to stroke out and die. Our fantasies (mine included) about him suffering in mute paralysis are self-serving vanity. His handlers would continue his Truth Social rants and his fascist executive orders as long as a machine can keep his foul blood pumping.

Nature needs to remove him in a spectacular and public and unambiguous fashion so that there’s no doubt even among the most zealous of his fuckhead kkkultists.

[electric_blue68]

22. Well, idk about "self serving vanity", but I suppose you're right.

Total "Be GONE, trump !!!!!"

[SergeStorms]

62. Can't wait to see his "Big, Beautiful, Body".......

on a slab in a mortuary. 😉

[greatauntoftriplets]

33. It'd be nice to see him with aphasia since he's in love with his own voice.

[niyad]

49. Why would you want to keep supporting his fascist ass?

[Evolve Dammit]

3. I gotta hurl. Her and Huckabee Sanders are the worst in my lifetime. Blondie and all the Faux News appointments as well.

[doc03]

4. I V. nt

[FirstLight]

10. What would require IV on a regular basis?

That's the question I have. Because if you were going to have to do IVs on a regular basis with somebody, wouldn't you have a stent or something already there so you wouldn't have to keep puncturing them? So then that begs the question that he's not getting it on a "regular" basis but "as needed"...

[PatSeg]

15. There are so many places to place an IV

In my experience, the hand was usually the last resort. So I'm assuming he's probably had numerous IVs already. It is possible that they've given him an IV port(s) somewhere unnoticeable, but it/they may have failed after awhile.

As for the makeup, is that really the best they could do? There is all kind of great makeup that could have covered up marks or bruises that are very natural looking.

I have to say, he's really looked awful lately even for Trump.

[doc03]

40. I think I got an IV there when getting an MRI

they injected the contrast dye in that IV. Maybe they found something with a MRI a couple weeks ago when he had the mark on the back of his hand. Maybe they have done a follow up checking something they found with the MRI.
I am not a doctor, it's an old nickname

[IcyPeas]

56. Maybe drump uses Propofol?

Propofol... that intravenous sleep medication that Michael Jackson used.

[PatSeg]

68. Yes, that could be

I have had so many IVs in my life that eventually they can't find a suitable vein. That is usually when they would have to resort to the hand.

Of course, any other president would be open with the public about his health condition, but we know that Trump will never be.

[Walleye]

76. That's about when he started talking about trying to get into heaven. Something I've never heard him say before.

[Born Free]

75. chemo sometimes given weekly

If a person has problems with chemo they will give them smaller doses and push it into the veins in the arm and/or back of the hand on a weekly basis.

[Walleye]

77. I got my chemo infusion in my hand, 4 times 3 weeks apart

It only left a small mark, but I’m not on blood thinners

[tinrobot]

55. He might be taking Alzheimer's medication.

Llecanemab (Leqembi) and donanemab (Kisunla) are administered intravenously. Both target the beta-amyloid proteins associated with Alzheimer's.

Considering that he seems to be exhibiting symptoms, it's definitely a possibility.

[Bayard]

5. Maybe its Maybelline!

Preferred by tiny hands all over the world.

[vapor2]

6. Karoline stop the BS, it's not from hand shaking PERIOD

So tell us if it is heart, liver or kidneys

[cstanleytech]

7. Sounds like he's not going to survive much longer which is a pity 🎻

[sop]

8. I would have preferred seeing him behind bars, which is also a pity.

[cstanleytech]

12. As would I but it's not a perfect world.

[Dulcinea]

32. I would bet my next paycheck...

...that he has CHF & they're just not telling us. I'm not a doctor or a medical professional, but the Fascist Felon sure shows a lot of the signs of CHF.

[Disaffected]

44. He then will likely get a heart transplant.

And live another 20 years. Just like Cheney.

[Dulcinea]

48. Probably not.

My father needed a heart transplant at that same age & they said he was too old & not in good enough shape.

[Disaffected]

80. But your father

was not the president. I'm thinking that makes a big difference (as it did with Cheney).

[cstanleytech]

82. Well, at least he'd get an upgrade from not having one to having one finally.

[SWBTATTReg]

74. Just for those who didn't know what CHF means (I didn't). Congestive Heart Failure

[twodogsbarking]

11. He may be ready to explode. Oh, the humanity....

Who has next Thursday at 3 am in the office pool? I'll take it if available.

[riversedge]

13. Geez--trump really needs to hire a better make-up artist for his hand

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[3catwoman3]

36. No best makeup Oscar for whoever did this clumsy...

…attempt at camouflage.

Might as well scream, “Look, look! I’m trying to hide something!”

[Aristus]

67. No makeup artist of any talent or repute is going to work for that scumbag.

He has a bad habit of not paying his employees and contractors. They had to find someone who works cheap.

[niyad]

50. That looks like putty, not makeup.

[bagimin]

65. Shoe Goo

[jmowreader]

60. It's almost like his entourage hates him

You'd never get an exact, undetectable match with all the color variations on the back of his hand, but you can get WAY closer than the Glidden Tract House Beige he's wearing.

[FakeNoose]

72. He's never had a make-up artist, that's why he looks so bad all the time

No professional make-up artist would ever do such a terrible job. He does it himself, plus his own hair.

[Botany]

83. Does he have a pulmonary edema that they trying to hide under that wood putty?

BTW nice over the top cufflinks too. Diamonds, a ruby, set into silver cufflinks but in his picture standing up he looked like
shit with his mouth half open, stooped shoulders, and blank look on his face.

[JoseBalow]

14. I wish him all the worst

Fuck that guy

[electric_blue68]

23. Snort! 😄

[The Wizard]

16. He'll leave office

when the gods foreclose on him.

[PSPS]

17. Everything they say includes "more than any other President in history"

[Blue Owl]

18. May the reaper reap swiftly and terribly

[VanceFan]

19. It's obvious

He's rotting from the inside out. Might explain part of his smell.

[tonekat]

20. It's turning into a claw. N/T

[AZ8theist]

21. It's not a craw, it's a CRAW!!!

[Javaman]

24. That's where they transfuse the blood they take from

Immigrant children.

He only realized that fucking kids won’t make him immortal, he needs their blood

[FirstLight]

27. ...last admin...?...as in Biden...?

He was not hiding anything

[Grammy23]

26. You'd think someone (maybe someone who wears lots of make up)

Would show him how to at least blend the blob — feather it out so that it gradually is faded into his hand. But then this is the same guy who thinks his face looks good with orange foundation that stops before reaching his hairline. So there isn’t much chance he’d bother to blend a non-matching foundation on the back of his hand.

His staff clearly does not care if the excuse is plausible. They just need a story and they’ll stick to that no matter how ridiculous it is. Got the bruising from shaking hands, eh? How come we never n saw this problem during campaign season when logically he was shaking as many if not more hands than he is now? 🖐️🤚

[littlemissmartypants]

28. Is there not a professional make-up artist aka MUA...

That will agree to work for him? Or is it that his current MUA hates him so much as to intentionally f things up?

I've seen prosthetic noses, warts and scars done by students that were more believable.

My God! He's such a cruel joke on reality.

[llmart]

29. I'm getting a bit giddy thinking that he's got to be nearing the end.

Let it be so.

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. ...

[EndlessMaze]

31. Yuck.

I gross out on shit like this. Trump is revolting,

[greatauntoftriplets]

34. My grandmother always had swollen ankles.

Strange how that's one of the best memories I have of ger since she died when I was 8.

She had several strokes over the years, and it was a stroke that killed her. As an adult, I've thought that her swollen ankles were a sign of CHF.

[BlueKota]

35. Personally I am hoping for a lightning bolt.

That would send a really symbolic message. Kind of like the Chiffon commercial, "it's not nice to fool mother nature." It would be poetic justice. He's ending all environmental protections, so mother nature strikes back.

[3catwoman3]

38. Me, too. Preferably while he's golfing. Something public and something that can't be blamed...

… on Democrats. You know, without a doubt, that if he keels over while eating, or is found dead in his bed, they’ll be sure that we did it.

[thought crime]

46. Marjorie Taylor Greene would be pretty suspicious of a lightning strike.

[3catwoman3]

53. I could live with that.

[BlueKota]

59. 🤣

[BlueKota]

58. True

[thought crime]

47. Nature smites thee.

[usonian]

37. What's a teensy tiny little repair without a band-aid?

[90-percent]

39. Most shaken hands in history?

Wheres the fact check on this How can it possibly be verified? Another tfg fabricated so called "fact"

-90% jimmy

[LudwigPastorius]

41. "...he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis..."

Who the fuck shakes hands with the top of their hand?

I'll take a stab and say, he's diabetic and has been receiving insulin and electrolytes through a peripheral IV.

[58Sunliner]

42. Given the swelling in his hands, he may have stage 4 CHF.

He looks like death warmed over.

[Dulcinea]

57. I've thought that all along.

The Fascist Felon's health is clearly declining, & it's something that can't be cured, or that horrible (expletive deleted) of a press secretary would gleefully tell the world he was getting treatment & would be fine.

[BidenRocks]

43. Procul Harem was playing on the bastardized ex Rose Garden

The orange freak had "A Whiter Shade of Pale" playing (among others).

Karma, neh?

[Aussie105]

45. The makeup is bad, plastered on.

It's a repetitive appearance, someone needs to track the time frame of this patching effort.
Might be a big hint there.

He has been looking more gaunt, low energy, more confused, and has lost weight over the last few months.

My Bingo card says . . . kidney failure, dialysis can be done via a vein in the hand and can leave a bruise.
Poor diet, long term abuse of uppers, yep that fits.

If he was a human being, he'd say . . . I'm not well, I'm no longer up for his, someone else take over.

But Trump being Trump, he will live in a permanent state of denial and believe in his immortality or whatever he has been searching so desperately for all his life.
I don't mind Trump fading away to the state of non-viability known as Death, but why does he need to take the whole country with him?

(On reflection, it probably is embalming fluid going into his veins.)

[MrWowWow]

51. Is tr💩mp a Blend?

Is he half human plus half zombie?

[Bread and Circuses]

52. Can't TACO Hire a makeup artist? Looks like a hot mess.

[BaronChocula]

54. Thanks to the Independent reporting

Leave it to the foreign press to scrutinize a republican president the way the way the American press scrutinized President Biden.

[NewEnglandAutumn]

61. Asprin used to prevent cardio issues would not do it

At the end of the article it said "He added that Trump’s hand bruises could be from the aspirin he takes to prevent cardiovascular disease." No way that is true. People who take an aspirin a day for this purpose take what used to be called 'baby asprin' it is 81mg. No way it would do that. I am wondering if he is on blood thinners.

The medical report in April was a lie.

[murielm99]

66. My husband is on the baby aspirin treatment.

He doesn't have that kind of bruising. I take a blood thinner. I bruise easily, but I don't have that kind of bruising either.

[BumRushDaShow]

70. What can (and often does) cause that kind of bruising

is some kind of steroid like prednisone (or related like methylprednisolone) and that can be taken orally, or via IV (I know I have had both).

[vankuria]

63. I'd bet

He’s getting IV diuretics, that would explain bruises on his hand and the catheter bag he’s obviously wearing. For a variety of issues he’s retaining fluid and the depends he wears can only soak up so much pee. I’d also bet his kidneys are working overtime and that may account for the tired, strained look he always has. He’s in rough shape and sooner rather than later his body will completely give out. He’s probably still eating McDonalds and not listening to anyone about the crap food he consumes, time hopefully is limited.

[twodogsbarking]

64. Hand make-up? He is fake in every way possible.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

69. trump is not well and is trying to hide the decline in health

I am a type II diabetic with some kidney issues and have had a ton of blood work done. I have had to have blood drawn from my hands on several occasions. trump is not well

Link to tweet

[bluestarone]

71. I want him to be so very sick. Remember though, we also heard putin was very sick.

He's still going strong!

[twodogsbarking]

73. Soon he will be shaking hands with nobody.

[underpants]

78. If he kept his hand pointed at a 45 degree angle he wouldn't have that problem

Baghdad Barbie seriously never disappoints. The complete lack of situational or self awareness is remarkably not just consistent but 110%.

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

79. Vegas

What are the odd makers in Vegas saying? Lol ... someone needs to start a pool as to the date of his final diaper load.

[alfredo]

81. IV bruises?

&I bet you dollars to donuts that’sThe reason for the bandage. I wonder if he has asked for; a Purple Heart?