- Donald Trump was seen with bruises on both hands.
- The White House credited bruises to frequent hands.
- Trump’s doctor said it was a benign state.
- The bruises have been recorded repeatedly since last year.
- Trump declares his health as an excellent and vital condition.
US President Donald Trump had a visible bruise visible on Monday. This is not a unique phenomenon, both the AP and the Forbes magazine points out. Trump was seen with a considerable stain on the right hand covered with makeup already seen last Friday and Subsequently, a smaller bruise appeared on his left hand over the weekend. Photo can be found in the gallery. According to Forbes, such phenomena have long raised worry about the health of 79-year-old US President, writes TASR.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claims that Trump’s The bruises correspond to the irritation of the skin that causes it “frequent hands and the use of aspirin”.
The latest bruises covered most of the back of Trump’s right hand, with Journalists noticed them as he signed the Executive Regulation on Monday morning and subsequently during his meeting with the South Korean President and Če-Mong.
Trump was captured by the Media with a smaller bruise on the left hand over the weekend, while shortly before – during a Friday visit to the People’s House Museum in Washington – was seen with a considerable stain covered with a thick layer of makeup on the back of the right hand.
According to the NBC News station He had US President bruises on his right hand at least since August last year, even in November and February, During the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron in the White House.
The White House first attributed them only to frequent hand shaking. He repeated Trump’s words from his December interview for Time magazine in which credited his condition “handing hands with thousands of people”.
In July, however, the White House published a letter from President’s doctor Sean Barbabell, stating that Trump’s bruises “correspond to the mild irritation of soft tissues from frequent hands and use aspirin,” which the president takes as part of the “standard cardiovascular prevention”.
The letter showed that Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, What Barbabella described as “benign and normal, especially in people over 70”. According to other tests, however, at the President “No signs of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease have been detected,” The doctor said. Such an examination prompted the President’s complaints about swollen ankles.
Trump, who joined in January again to office as the oldest US President, is He praises its declared vitality and cognitive abilities for a long time. In this respect, he has long criticized his predecessor as 82-year-old ex-president Joe Biden, whom he described as both of the vetoe and mentally incapable of performing the function. Trump’s speeches themselves during his last election campaign, in which he knocked the names of cities, countries and names of world leaders, raised doubts about his mental fitness.
However, Barbabella stated in April after a comprehensive medical examination that Trump is “in excellent health”, Regarding cognitive and physical abilities.
