Everyone who’s commenting that this is shingles or some viral infection is wrong.
It’s 5-flurorourocil (5-FU).
It’s a form of topical chemotherapy that’s used to treat superficial skin cancers (like superficial basal cell carcinoma) or precancerous lesions like actinic keratoses. It basically causes the top layer of skin to peel off wherever it’s applied.
Very common for people Trump’s age who never wore sunscreen growing up and tanned by covering their bodies in baby oil.
However, if his doctors are recommending 5-FU then his skin cancers are very superficial and not malignant.
Oncologist here. It could still be a malignant cancer like squamous cell or basal cell. 5-fu can be used to control these cancers and delay definitive surgery or radiation treatment. Trump prbly doesn’t want to go under the knife and have a big scar while he’s still in office right now.
Edit: I should specify that I have NO idea whether he actually has a skin tumor or if he is being treated with topical 5-FU. No doctor can accurately diagnose what’s going on based off this single photo. I was merely responding that topical 5-FU can be used for malignant tumors.
While he is under the knife he has to officially hand the reigns to Vance until he's brought back up from anesthesia. He really seems like the type that wouldn't agree to that, even to save his own life.
The anesthetic for a colonoscopy doesn’t last much longer than the procedure. Surely he’d be just as (temporarily) removed from power with a borescope up his arse as with a shot of Propofol?
Practically speaking you're correct, but it's likely the legality of being sedated & having signed paperwork indicating such. You can't (shouldn't) make decisions for 24hrs and most of the ppwk you're signing indicates that you understand this and won't do it (regardless of whether you intend to comply). I can imagine the can of worms that would open if someone decided to leverage this fact to challenge a decision Trump made post-procedure or convince Vance to do something without Trump's approval.
By signing that the president would in effect give licence for the VP to claim the presidency in that moment as it would be an admission that they would be unable to carry out the duties. The VP now temp p could then in the course of his official role order seal team 6 to kill the president (as made clear in the SCOTUS ruling) and then you have president couch fiddler.
Vance I only defiled the furniture not the kids like the last guy!
Remember the amazing treatment Trump got when he had Covid? Getting all the best therapies possible while at the same time spreading all sorts of misinformation about the disease
He has the best ear. The perfect ear. They said he couldn’t grow it back, but he did. All the doctors had tears in their eyes when they saw it. They said no one else can do it. It’s impossible they said. It’s a miracle!
Listen, folks, I know ears, okay? Ears don’t just grow back, that’s what the doctors tell me. That’s what they say! They called me up, in the White House, beautiful house by the way, they called me up, and they said, “Donald, you know ears. You know that they just don’t grow back, you know this, I know this.”
pause for hands waving helplessly
“That’s what they said, folks. So when they saw my ear grow back, they were amazed. Stunned! Isn’t stunned such a beautiful word? Nobody uses the word ‘stunned’ anymore, folks, that’s the problem today. That’s the problem! We don’t use good old fashioned words. Anyway, my ear’s grown back perfectly! Doctors said they’ve never seen anything like it. They were stunned. They said I had the best ears, the best growing ears. And they said, “Donald, you know ears. You know you have the best ears.” And it’s true! Aren’t those doctors fantastic, folks? Incredible.”
Yeah, I’m not one for conspiracy theories. The earth is round, we landed on the moon and vaccines work. But I am 100% convinced that ear never got shot. That was all staged.
I came across a video of a young woman last year who had an injury to her ear around the same time that this happened to Trump. She showed that she still had visible scarring on her ear— and she was probably in her 20s, so her body is much quicker to heal.
It makes absolutely no logical sense how his ear looks free of scarring, esp for someone his age and with the conditions we know that he has.
I got bottled during a bar fight around 20 years ago. Still have a visible scar. I’m also not prone to conspiracy thinking but there’s no way he healed that well that quickly.
Yeah but she's probably a liberal because she's in her 20s. And she's a woman. And she's not Donald Trump. So... obviously she's not going to heal very quickly. She doesn't have the right genes. Only Trump can regrow ears like that. No has ever seen anything like it. And they can't see anything like it because they have tears in their eyes looking at those beautiful regrown ears.
anyone who says he just stood back up in defiance is wrong or rewriting history, there was a pretty big gap and he specifically stopped his security from taking him away to get the photo op, it was absolutely staged.
A smart play from a politics perspective, tho. I can't put into words how much I loathe him and have done so since before even 2016 but the fat pedophile racist fascist fuck knows how to exploit a moment
edit: hahaha I love that my first reddit awards are for a post where I call Trump names, hell yeah
Yeah at best he knew he was completely fine in the moment. At worst it was completely staged.
The fact that he was able to think to do that in the moment after being shot at is incredibly impressive, especially for a man who usually struggles to string a coherent sentence together.
And personally, I wouldn't shove my security so that I could stay on stage and fist pump if I was literally just being shot at seconds ago. It takes a lot of balls to be that cool calm and collected when another bullet might come at you any second.
I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist either, but this one has reeked of bullshit to me since it happened.
Especially because he's not exactly known for his bravery or physical ability. For him to stand up and shake his fist in the midst of an active shooter situation is out of character.
NB this doesn't mean I'm convinced it was staged - I'm still on the fence on that, even though I admit there are huge gaps in the official narrative.
So I used to have an industrial piercing and it migrated out of the side of my ear (literally pulled it out of my ear on accident lol). It’s been 15 years and I still have a visible notch/scar in the cartilage of my ear.
I'm a healthy woman who busted up my ear when I was 29. Scratches on the ear surface, tear in the helix. It took 3 weeks for me to take off the bandage, and it looked absolutely awful when I did, all red and purple. It took months to stop oozing because it would open up again randomly. I had very visible scars for at least a year, bright purple, and slightly visible scars for 4 more years.
Can't imagine how long it would take septuagenarians to heal.
When it happens it's not going to immediately solve all of the issues we're seeing in America... but it'll make so many people happy and hopeful again, even if just for a day.
It will create a power vacuum inside the administration. Trump is easily manipulated because he thinks he's the smartest person in the room and has an ego the size of Jupiter. Vance is just a manipulator and liar, he'll say anything he can to make friends.
People want to be on Trump's good side, Vance wants to be on everybody's good side. That's going to create a lot of problems within maga.
They will be so busy trying to figure out who's really in charge that they will lose control as a collective.
The problem with Trump was his voting base manically loved him. His threats to primary a one opposed actually had some teeth. I don’t think Vance can carry the same control.
A lot of the maga people I’ve met actually hate Vance so much, it’s pretty funny actually. I sometimes wonder if Trump picked him because he didn’t want anyone with any form of charisma capable of building their image next to him.
Yeah, Vance is a spineless little bitch who will do anything and put up with anything if it benefits him. Trump could punch Vance’s wife in the face and Vance would be all like “great punch, sir! Perfect force and accuracy! Look at how hard she’s crying!”.
The power comes from his cult of personality. When he dies so does most of his power bc it can’t be harnessed without him alive and actively setting the narratives his supporters are so emotionally invested in.
And as much as I dislike Trump, he truly has the power of not giving a shit which so many people love, whilst Vance 0% of that aura. Even as a pessimist, I sincerely disagree with people who say "Vance would be just as bad". Vance would not be taken seriously
Also, I feel like people are not considering the level of chaos that will ensue. Remember how angry the right got when they thought people were celebrating CK’s death? Now imagine how enraged they will be when thousands of people are celebrating in the streets, social media will explode with request for a national holiday and people throwing themed parties for the funeral to celebrate it. The right is going to go nuclear.
But like, when are they not? Going nuclear over and over is what those folks do. As far as I can tell, deliberately winding themselves up into a state of near postal rage and exploding on other people is their favorite hobby.
Yeah I agree, it’s going to be through the roof levels. Think there will be no way of denying they are actually a vast minority in the US after they witness the mass celebrations lol
Oh totally, especially with the way No Kings keeps breaking their brains.
Every ninny I was still in contact with because I was trying to pull their fool heads outa their bums, they all went postal and burned the friendship after I kept making it to the protests anytime I could, followed by babbling at length with excitement about all the old folks and kids in strollers and dogs I'd seen, the contents of speeches I heard, and how everybody there was smiling at each other.
Like the only other time I've talked with that much excitement was after coming back from seeing NYC for the first time! Just saw so many amazing things and gotta tell someone about it all!
Hard to call me a paid protester to my face while knowing how poor I am. Or deny now many people showed up when I keep going on with descriptions of how packed it was. I keep describing it as like a music festival, that I gotta be careful to stay at the edges because I panic when I get too close to the middle, just a flood of humans in all directions as far as I can see.
Same. I sent my husband out that Saturday morning to pick up a bottle of champagne. We absolutely never drink because of my medicine and family history. And him because of his hemochromatosis and family history. But 100% we're gonna break our abstinence for that special occasion. At least one drink and cheers.
I'd prefer that as well if the legal system were actually still functioning, but at this point, he could literally shoot someone in the face on live TV and they still wouldn't arrest him. At this point, his death is the only thing that can collapse the cult.
He'll never be arrested. Not only has SCOTUS given him virtual immunity without adjudicating whether every single illegal act was done as part of his "official duties" (paraphrasing, I'd have to look it up), but he wouldn't live long enough for any of it to run it"s course through rulings and appeals if you did.
The people who enabled him and actual carried out his edicts don't have that same immunity though.
Remember Trump was very pro-Covid vaccine...until his followers decided it was an evil Bill Gates plot to microchip us all, at which point he suddenly became very non-committal on it. (The only positive I'll give him on this, and it's a super small one, is that at least he didn't outright decry the vaccine as a hoax. He just went the "get it or don't get it, your choice" route.)
He has been pretty much out of the spotlight lately
lol what are you talking about? He has been making major public/television appearances basically every day since the SOTU - which was, itself, a 2+ hour public speaking event.
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