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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president wears bandages on the back of his hand because he's “literally constantly shaking hands.”

CNN host Jake Tapper isn’t buying the official White House explanation for Donald Trump sporting bandages on the back of his hand, arguing on “The Lead” that there’s more to the president’s health picture than has been revealed.

Tapper discussed the matter with CNN chief political analyst David Axelrod and ex-Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that Trump wears the bandages as a result of “constantly shaking hands.”

“The White House gave the same explanation for bruising back in July,” Tapper said Thursday. “Obviously, he’s 79 years old. And there is something going on with his health that they’re not telling us, because otherwise, why did he have that MRI?”

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[-] televisionhead 3 points 50 minutes ago

Please die by the next month.. please..

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago
[-] paperazzi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Best explanation I've seen for these bandages over bruises is he is receiving an infusion intravenously every two weeks of a type of medication for dementia, like Leqembi or Kisunla. Patients on these drugs require regular MRIs to monitor brain swelling or bleeding. The drugs cause side effects of fatigue, cardiovascular changes, dizziness, etc. It doesn't stop dementia but it does slow it down.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

He has probably already forgotten his dementia diagnosis.

[-] acme401@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago
[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago

I hear no cheering or fireworks, so I'm guessing he's not.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

I got a nice bottle of booze waiting for the announcement

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Can the doctors be sued and brought to testify under oath that Donald is perfectly healthy?

Perjury has actual consequences IIRC

[-] lohky@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Does it? Does perjury have real consequences when literally nothing else does?

[-] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 minutes ago

I mean, we’ve watched multiple justices perjure themselves in national tv.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago

I believe that between doctor patient confidentiality and HIPAA, that will be quite difficult.

Imagine that your doctor was forced to give testimony on your health. Nobody would want that.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm not in control of the most powerful military on the planet. Public servants need to be held to higher standards of accountability, including about personal health problems.

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Patient records can be subpoenaed but the request has to be relevant to a case. the persons defense as well as the provider has the right to argue against the release, though their arguments can be overruled and the provider can be compelled to release records and testify as to your diagnosis, treatment, clinical observations, etc.

It’s wild how people will regularly assume HIPAA is some magic force that protects them from government overreach. It’s not, at all. I’m not specifically shitting on you because I see this claim repeated all the time, even just here in this thread. Your providers should make the limitations of HIPAA more clear to you. They’re probably more concerned with getting you in and out to maximize billable time bc fee for service billing is fucked. That’s a whole different nightmare

A priest during confessional has more protection from being compelled to testify than any doctor or therapist. They even have stronger protections than lawyers. Lawyer client privilege can be overturned if you are found to be abusing it to plan crimes. If you brag to a clergy about all the crimes you’re gonna do (though if they help they will be punished for helping, the confessional is still inadmissible and protected). They are even usually exempt from mandated reporter laws (even though they’re often in the highest risk categories for child sex abuse). It’s fucked that this country gives a pass to pedophiles to rape kids because of a historical precedent towards fucking nonsense; meanwhile the fields built on a base of evidence that need to build trust have a cornerstone of “oh the judicial system can compel me if you become their enemy but btw if you go to church you can literally confess to raping kids and the murder you’re planning and no one will rat you out”.

Source: work in healthcare and have had records subpoenaed (successfully fought off 2/3 attempts, fuck you government)

But granted they aren’t getting trumps records. No fucking way. Even if someone had the balls to charge him with something and claim they needed them as evidence he’d get the entire government to make sure that never happened, even if it meant falsifying or even destroying the documents

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I did not know about the first paragraphs, as I'm not in states, and I agree with your analysis in the last paragraph.

There's no way anybody would get those records through subpoenas. Only way those records would see the light of day is if they're either leaked by an insider, looking to hang themselves in prison, or got hacked.

[-] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Idk I heard it was an abortion... That should do it

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

The abortion was successful, but the afterbirth golem has lived for 79 years.

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago

Id assume Trump would need to file a HIPPA release which ain't happening.

Now if this was a democratic president the supreme court would say that by accepting taxpayer funded healthcare, the citizens are thereby the payor/insurance company and that HIPPA authorizes release of protected health information to payors so the public is allowed to know subpoenad health information without a release.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago

Whatever it is, I hope it hurts a lot.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

I hope it's something serious but on the cusp of treatment, cancelled because he shut down the NIH.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

I heard it was childrapeolitus, and that he has had a really bad case of it for many decades.

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

File that one under "No Shit Sherlock." But he's going to dodder along for another 8 - 10 years.

[-] falseWhite@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

It really doesn't matter until he actually collapses to the floor. Even then they'll try to spin it into something positive "Mr. president was exhausted for working the hardest anyone has ever worked."

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

It is fun to watch him have mini strokes occasionally. The one video where you could see him testing his hands and his right side just didn’t respond was beautiful. Hope he gets trapped in his shitty body.

[-] Soulg@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago

That's basically already their excuse for him falling asleep constantly.

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[-] fl1p@piefed.zip 2 points 22 hours ago

Blue anon back at it again.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I mean, there is definitely something wrong with Trump, he's almost 80.

I guess you could argue that what's wrong with him doesn't affect his ability to lead, but personally he hasn't been mentally fit to lead for a long time now.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I have friends that can run a 10k at 80. If you live that long, you're going to age, but decrepitude is not inevitable. My grandfather stayed strong, mentally sharp and mobile until his late 90s and was only frail for a couple of months at the end of his life. A lot of what's wrong with Trump has to do with him being Trump, not specifically with his being old.

[-] Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago

Why say something now, Jake? Why not wait until after his presidency? Then write a book about it? Then sell that book while you're doing your job on TV? Just a thought.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Because he's holding out for a spot when Trump dies. Everyone in the conservative sphere is circling the White House like sharks because they know half of everyone is gone as soon as Vance sits down - because half of them are in those seats on account of being friends with Trump and nothing more.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 27 points 1 day ago

I'm so tired of this fucking story. This evil p.o.s is never going to die. We've been hearing Trump health/mind failing stories for like 10 fucking years already...

Wake me up when he's actually dead. Unfortunately he's probably going to outlive me and I'm only 39.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago
[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 points 2 hours ago

I wish I was Vance, then I could kill myself and make the world a better place lol

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

He wants to be on a coin so badly, he'll die for it. I say we increase the incentive, and offer him a stamp, too, even though he probably hates stamps for some MAGA reason.

[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bruised hand you say? JD is slacking on his primary duty

[-] brotato@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

I really don’t understand why they always feel the need to cover up presidential health issues. I know the answer is “national security,” but how exactly is it secure to have a man in obvious mental and physical decline going around “shaking hands” with other world leaders? Just own up to it and have him die at Mar-a-lago playing golf like he probably wants. That was the whole point of having JD as a backup, right?

[-] QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

My bet is that they're trying to get to the two year mark before kicking Trump out. That way JD gets a little less than two years in the white house, but is still eligible to be president two more times.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

I doubt that's the reason. Vance doesn't have the skills or the personality to be president. I'd expect to see him impeached more than win an election.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Trump has neither the skills nor the personality to be regarded as human, but there he is.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

You can hate him as a person, but his ability to maintain a cult of personality is impressive.

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[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump died at 11:58 pst

🤞

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"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president wears bandages on the back of his hand because he's “literally constantly shaking hands.”

As if that were even a slightly reasonable explanation.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 minutes ago

I feel they're not giving a decent reason on purpose. Better to leave everyone discussing so they're distracted from the actual shit they're pulling

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