The president had yet another strange mark on his hands over Christmas, once again raising concerns that his health is not what he has claimed it to be.

Donald Trump—the oldest person to ever be elected president—was photographed with what appeared to be another bruise on Christmas Eve, this time marring his left hand.

The 79-year-old has repeatedly claimed that he is in pristine condition, brushing off public alarm over his deteriorating body.

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 hours ago

    Some people speculate is dementia drug infusions.

    I did work for about a year doing pharm research for Alzheimer’s. Most of those drugs are infusions.

    However. None of them stop or reverse loss.

    They just slow it down And they aren’t even that effective. Honestly the data I saw… My opinion was. :

    -Desperate people are going to pay this $1200 a month infusion cost for literally no benefit and extra risks.

    Based on the documents I read, for one of the drugs we were testing (I forget the drug but I recall it’s already used to treat ALS)-

    The dosage needed to cause a change in Alzheimer’s would have a serious health risk of brain bleeding.

    The dose we were using was like 1/3 of the expected effectiveness dosage.

    I thought this was kind of unethical because people signed up to be in the study with the hope of a medicine that would help them. And that’s how it was presented to them.

    However. The study was really just trying to see how much brain bleeding occured at 1/3 dose.

    With zero expectations for actual effectiveness on slowing down the progress.

    I did not like the ethical issues with this line of work.

    Anywho I have gotten on a tangent.

    The other thing I wanted to say is , if these drugs are to have any effects in slowing (but none stop or reverse , just to be 100% clear on this), then the person MUST start them with early symptoms. What is called “mild cognitive impairment”.

    They do nothing if symptoms are already noticeable.

    And most people don’t realize they have dementia until it’s already moderate because they mask their symptoms. Or their symptoms are often excused because “pops/Mom is getting old and that’s normal”.

    Its progressive.

    Slow at first. And most don’t notice until it’s gotten pretty bad.

    Trump almost certainly has fronto temporal dementia.

    I’m not the only neuroscientist to say so.

    I’m not clinical but I did work with dementia patients. Plus many clinicians are saying the same.

    He’s got classic text ook symptoms.

    People excuse his word salad because it slowly got worse.

    But read out loud anything he writes or says.

    It’s nonsense. That’s not normal. Read this and it’s a good example of Trump’s speech patterns.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logorrhea_(psychology)&wprov=rarw1

    -In a more extreme version of logorrhea aphasia, a clinician asked a male patient, also with Wernicke’s aphasia, what brought him to the hospital. The patient responded:

    -Is this some of the work that we work as we did before? … All right … From when wine [why] I’m here. What’s wrong with me because I … was myself until the taenz took something about the time between me and my regular time in that time and they took the time in that time here and that’s when the time took around here and saw me around in it’s started with me no time and I bekan [began] work of nothing else that’s the way the doctor find me that way …[5]

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    109·
    14 hours ago

    I’ve lost track of the Trump period calendar going into the holidays, but my bet remains:

    https://www.verywellhealth.com/injectable-alzheimers-drugs-8776312

    In the open-label trial of subcutaneous Leqembi, 8% of patients experienced reactions at the injection site, and most side effects were mild or moderate, according to Eisai.

    People who take Leqembi and Kisunla are required to get an MRI brain scan once a quarter to check for signs of brain damage, such as swelling and bleeding. Such amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) can occur when someone uses a drug designed to clear amyloid. Most ARIA are asymptomatic or cause mild symptoms, but some ARIA require hospitalization and special treatment.

    Eisai reported that people who received subcutaneous injections had slightly higher rates of ARIA than those who got an IV infusion, but the sample size of the injection group was small enough that an exact comparison can’t be made.

    Trumps’ been on this 28 day schedule of being very peppy, then dragging ass, then being practically dead, then getting his pep back. It lines up with the visual symptoms we see with his hands. He’s also on his like, 3rd or 4th “annual”* MRI for the year.

    *there is no annual MRI

          • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
            34·
            15 hours ago

            There’s a bunch of problems derived from the child rapist existence so I’d say it will solve a few.

            And will give us satisfaction for seeing a child rapist kick the bucket, that’s always good news.

          • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
            112·
            14 hours ago

            And perpetuate the rest as everyone starts acting like the problem is over and they can return to before

            • altphoto@lemmy.today
              4·
              13 hours ago

              Do then hopefully it goes one and off getting worse and more painful to the point where he’s barley functional enough to keep being the king but not doing much else? Can he do that for his country for the next 3 years? Or maybe until November?

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
        22·
        14 hours ago

        I plan on celebrating that illustrious day, but I do think we need to temper expectations a bit. I am truly not convinced it will actually change much. Trump is a symptom not the mastermind.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          14 hours ago

          Yes, but Trump is the figurehead of a cult of personality and those never survive the loss of their face. There are enough loose cannons and outright insane people within the conservative political sphere that even if there is some kind of secret master plan on what to do after Trump is gone, once the inevitable shitstorm of internal backstabbing starts as everyone desperately scrambles to put themselves at the top it’s likely to all go down in flames.

          • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            13 hours ago

            The RWA (Right Wing Authoritarian) personality type is notorious about lining up behind a figure they deem as “strong”, though. Suggested reading: Bob Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians.

            So I guess we’ll see.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
      9·
      14 hours ago

      I’ve said it before, but when that headline comes through, I’m going to buy a flag pole, a flag, and raise that thing to the top. I’ll remove all of it after the half staff order ends, but I want everyone that drives by to know just how I feel.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        13 hours ago

        I do wonder how many of those we may be seeing…

        If Republicans and centrists and some so-called leftists and liberals clutch their pearls over it - first of all, FUCK THEM. But, secondly, remind them that the conservatives are the ones that raised the flags for Donvict’s inauguration even though Carter was being remembered by having flags at half-mast just prior.

        This is the party that lowered flags for that POS of Charlie Kirk. Some people just don’t deserve this honor.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        4·
        12 hours ago

        I’m just going to do a Grumpy Cat “Good.” and completely forget his ass. It’s what he deserves, as the most important thing to him is his name and ego. Fuck him.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
      3·
      13 hours ago

      Famous people seem to die on New Years Eve a lot, although it probably just seems that way cause of cognitive bias. People die every day

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
    671·
    15 hours ago

    The White House previously said that Trump’s hand looked that way because he shook so many hands. So, how can they explain it on his left hand? Did he get it from jerking off two horses at once or something?

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
    153·
    11 hours ago

    Some people are claiming it’s from his Alzheimer’s treatment. I had a senior family member who had bruises on and off for decades, people are looking way too much into this. It’s like talking about Putin’s cancer when they are going to be given the best treatment there is on Earth to treat it.

    People are claiming his mental faculties are failing when the truth is he’s just a compulsive egotistical manipulative liar who doesn’t care about being right as long as he sounds right. He will make bullshit up on the spot so that the ignorant who rely on the flimsiest of social cues will think he actually knows what he is talking about. This is false hope, just like the Epstein files. He won’t just topple over, he needs more opposition than he is getting.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    13·
    13 hours ago

    When you’re going through regular intravenous treatments, using one arm or another puts stress on the local vascular system, so they switch arms after some time to not cause issues.

    This suuurrreee looks like he’s been getting intravenous infusions of some sort. Probably not Chemo because they’d install a port to prevent this exact kind of problem.