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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy does Trump have two black eyes this morning?
Screenshot from this morning's press conference:
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Ohiogal
(32,000 posts)Cattledog
(5,914 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Too long away from his oxygen cannula.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)any pictures of his tiny hand?
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)lips looked a little blue. Not sure if that's true or not.
mia
(8,361 posts)His thumb looks shorter.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)He does not look like a healthy person.
3catwoman3
(23,995 posts)...person because he isn't.
I don't know why he has kicked the bucket yet.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,706 posts)It's probably from a combination of fatigue and fluid retention.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)I think he must not use a makeup person but do it himself. No professional would be so slapdash.
2naSalit
(86,634 posts)and those bags under his eyes can mean intestinal trouble; heart trouble; kidney trouble. His sniffing and snorking is what a person with sinuses full of drugs and they are trying to control the snot from running out their nose and keep from swallowing it at the same time. His nose is also very swollen. The snorking is done through partially clenched teeth. He's definitely hoovering up some dust before performances.
Turbineguy
(37,332 posts)trying out her new set of brass knuckles?
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Sucker punches
yonder
(9,666 posts)That'll teach him.
Turbineguy
(37,332 posts)I had to look that one up.
yonder
(9,666 posts)is probably not docking at that pier much anymore.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)The mental picture of those two having fun sex is crazy hysterical! Thanks for the laugh. I had to look it up so thanks for adding to my vernacular vocabulary!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)n/t
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)Both palms, one under each eye. Maybe he is bruising easily these days.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,736 posts)Not the DEA, but to the Adderall people.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)- seriously.
Man, he is one sick person.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)rurallib
(62,416 posts)I thought it was makeup (why purple?) but my wife said it wasn't
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Elaine Chao?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I think it's more the light giving a blue tinge.
But, notwithstanding, he's not well, physically or mentally.
jpak
(41,758 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)If there was no trauma to cause that, then it may to do with spontaneous broken blood vessels due to a disorder. It happens also with leukemia, and from certain allergies can bring on an "allergy shiner" which is different.
Or, too many huge lines of that Adderall crush last night, maybe? A blow out!
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Then maybe they had to get him down with a tranquilizer shot. He looks like he's on the brink of another medical event, maybe much worse than the last one. You can see he's ill now.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)It's like he is ready to blow, from the breathing to the slurs and so forth.
Captain Zero
(6,806 posts)The one he started on early on a weekend morning last year?
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)That seems plausible, actually.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He's starting to look like Mads Mikkelson in the Dr. Strange movie.
These pictures aren't going to sit well with Trump, who is incredibly vain about his appearance. Look for some bullshit excuse about how fluorescent lights make his complexion look different from every other person on the planet.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Looks like shit...as usual.
nature-lover
(1,469 posts)Will they talk about this? Is there an agreement in the media that reporting on these obvious health related issues is off limits?
yonder
(9,666 posts)FarPoint
(12,397 posts)Serious Kidney Disease....
malaise
(269,005 posts)Please please please.
I thought it was Hillary who didn't have six months left back in 2016!
FarPoint
(12,397 posts)Puffy eyes and kidney disease... protein metabolism issues...eye edema..His looks awful...just saying...
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)The eyes would be swollen shut or mostly shut.
He doesn't have black eyes in the sense of an injury, he just has big old impeachment bags and really shitty lighting.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)Love it!
Arkansas Granny
(31,517 posts)and it's being kept from the public. Republicans don't have anyone else to run that can possibly beat the Democratic nominee this election cycle so they've got to stick with Trump or go down big time. It's beginning to look like "Weekend at Bernie's".
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Poo level is elevated
shanti
(21,675 posts)Up to his eyeballs!
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)"White House toilets, 15 flushes, but today feels like a major eruption. It's Obama's fault for approving normal plumbing. "
eShirl
(18,493 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)low oxygen levels. Mineral Man pointed that out yesterday in a post speculating about Trump's health. Whatever the cause, the man is very obviously not healthy. At all.
icymist
(15,888 posts)Crying. Sinus problems. Age. Genes. Bottom line: Not a healthy man.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)And he should be because we will have no mercy on that sob.
He looks like one sick man.
canetoad
(17,161 posts)And I hope anyone with even the slightest real medical knowledge will correct this if wrong....
Medical term for this: Periorbital dark circles
Per Wiki, caused by:
-Allergies, asthma, and eczema
-Medications
-Anemia
-Fatigue
-Age
-Sun exposure
Any medications that cause blood vessels to dilate can cause circles under the eyes to darken. Because the skin under the eyes is very delicate, any increased blood flow shows through the skin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periorbital_dark_circles
Medications that dilate blood vessels:
https://www.medicinenet.com/vasodilators_drug_class_side_effects_list_of_names/article.htm
High blood pressure (hypertension)
Congestive heart failure (CHF)
Cardiac pain or heart pain (angina)
Prevention of stroke
Prevention of a heart attack
Prevention of heart failure after a heart attack
High blood pressure in pregnant women (Preeclampsia)
High blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary hypertension)
Diabetic nephropathy
Raynaud's syndrome
Cardiomyopathy
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
There's hope yet.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)H2O Man
(73,552 posts)Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)Hahahahaha!
I am gonna work on that look myself. Bitchin
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sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)catching up with him, the opposite of dorian gray. I keep focusing on the black gunk between his lower teeth.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)snorting Adderall and watch Faux News
smb
(3,471 posts)cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)Hangover?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)It causes swelling under the eyes, and severe shrinkage of a vital organ.
The brain, of course.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)SweetieD
(1,660 posts)MontanaMama
(23,317 posts)Seriously though...is this an un-doctored photo? Scary and crazy.
Piasladic
(1,160 posts)maybe lack of oxygen?
MFM008
(19,814 posts)Total....
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)blugbox
(951 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)I have worked with sedated seniors. I was the Wellness Nurse at a retirement community.
Trump was on sedation yesterday. Cotton mouth, his affect was seriously impaired.
Why?
If he needs that level of sedation to cope, he has no business being POTUS
Link to tweet
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)So, yesterday he gave that speech about the assasination, and the fact that everything was under control. I was listening as I worked in my studio. I was not watching any video. I recognized that he was very controlled and scripted. I knew he was on something since he wasnt going off on any of his normal tangents.
Now, today, for this presser, he is back to his old wacko riffing and meandering style. And his under eye bags are blue.
Yup, its either from him being back on his prefered meds, or he is detoxing from the meds he was on yesterday. Or both.
This is our freaking President! My gawd, I havent felt safe since he was elected.
#Impeach2020 #VoteBlue2020
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)And worse to watch. He was gripping the podium, swaying and making weird tongue movements.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)He's been snorting the Adderall so much that he can't get high anymore, so he takes more and more and more. He probably hasn't had a wink of sleep in a week.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States...
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Remember when he, Donnie's physician since 1980, famously stated that DT has "extraordinary stamina and physical strength and would be the healthiest person ever elected president."
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)Always the trendsetter.
wryter2000
(46,049 posts)Really subdued, not like his normal affect at all
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Pretending to be a wartime President plus 200 milligrams of Cialis had him feeling frisky.
She apparently wasn't in the mood to be pawed by those tiny little mitts.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Sniff, sniff.
no_hypocrisy
(46,115 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)doc03
(35,338 posts)to get him to stand up, could that be a side effect?
samnsara
(17,622 posts)Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)Eeek!