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Trump's hand is missing a chunk of flesh..new speculations about his health (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd May 14 OP
Is that a prosthetic? Girard442 May 14 #1
Oh, god. If he's going bionic COL Mustard May 14 #3
What a nightmare! wnylib May 14 #23
It looks pretty mutilizated. Harker May 14 #2
Where is the "missing chunk" located? Silver Gaia May 14 #4
I think the reference is to a perceived divot in the lower center of the backside of the right hand. John1956PA May 14 #7
If you enlarge the image, and look right above the cuff, there is a niyad May 14 #8
I am an old woman. When I hold my hand at the same angle, I have a deep divot to the right of the tendon and a shallower ratchiweenie May 14 #59
I don't know bucolic_frolic May 14 #5
that was one hell of a puncture eShirl May 14 #15
Rot away malaise May 14 #6
Bleed long and fester. nt Xipe Totec May 14 #32
March on, oh Spirochete! displacedvermoter May 14 #42
I see what you did there CanonRay May 14 #55
This message was self-deleted by its author Xipe Totec May 15 #68
Don't hate me... zanana1 May 14 #9
I'm 83. My hands don't look nothing like those claws. 3Hotdogs May 14 #21
No...there is definitely flesh missing... Trueblue Texan May 14 #47
ahve plenty of folks in my life 70-98, none of their hands are like that obamanut2012 May 14 #56
His fuckhead KKKultists will call it stigmata Orrex May 14 #10
That is some disgraceful shit there Redleg May 14 #14
"Rubes" is far too polite a term for those ignorant racist fuckheads Orrex May 14 #18
To prove that he is Jesus, he would have to wnylib May 14 #30
It is far too polite for some of them- I am trying to moderate my language somewhat Redleg May 14 #50
That's scarrification from getting ongoing IV sticks indusurb May 14 #11
Looks the same to me. Old hand + IV Sympthsical May 14 #29
Yes ... plus he plays a lot of golf ... so a lot of time in the sun FakeNoose May 14 #35
Oh let's speculate! yardwork May 14 #46
He's main lining prime rib. dem4decades May 14 #48
Don't you mean Big Mac's? The Madcap May 14 #53
For chemo, they generally create a port. NH Ethylene May 14 #58
Yes. They put a port in the upper chest for chemo. Silver Gaia May 14 #67
Yeah MustLoveBeagles May 14 #62
OUCH zanana1 May 14 #37
He just needs more cholesterol. twodogsbarking May 14 #12
Yes, a favorite sign from the No Kings marches: "Cholesterol - Do your job!" TheRickles May 14 #13
Whatever it is, I hope it is nothing minor.. niyad May 14 #16
Okay :: That Took Me a Second (Look) Or Two ahnakneemoose May 14 #40
That's understandable. It is early yet. niyad May 14 #44
I have a missing muscle under my left thumb on the palm side. I'm back in the US to have sinkingfeeling May 14 #17
Absurd. He has old hands because he is old. I don't see chunks gone. Ridiculous. Srkdqltr May 14 #19
Blow the photo up... Trueblue Texan May 14 #49
Necrosis is a terrible thing. Kid Berwyn May 14 #20
Chemo Johnny2X2X May 14 #22
US media is part of the Trump Crime Syndicate. Irish_Dem May 14 #26
So true Johnny2X2X May 14 #39
He wins because of all of it, not just the media. Irish_Dem May 14 #43
His lawsuit vs the IRS Johnny2X2X May 14 #45
It's definately weird looking. Like a circular burn, the skin next to the circle looks more normal. Swede May 14 #24
I'm not seeing it. It just looks like an arthritic, wrinkly, gross, tiny hand. Vinca May 14 #25
He's been shaking too many hands... sop May 14 #27
Stigmata. C_U_L8R May 14 #28
That hand photo needed to come with a trigger warning. NCDem47 May 14 #31
Melania is slapping his hand away more vigorously nowadays. Norrrm May 14 #33
It looks more like a bulging vein to me GoCubsGo May 14 #34
Too many needle sticks pfitz59 May 14 #36
Chunk of flesh? Nah . . . but definitely shitty circulation, courtesy of age and needles . . . hatrack May 14 #38
Think RFK Jr. Leech or piranha therapy. usonian May 14 #41
I'm calling it... Happy Hoosier May 14 #51
So is his brain. His mane just covers it. spanone May 14 #52
Looks like fat atrophy to me. Ms. Toad May 14 #54
It may just be Ebola. gab13by13 May 14 #57
Nothing is missing on his hand. MineralMan May 14 #60
Proceed. Blue Owl May 14 #61
trump is not well LetMyPeopleVote May 14 #63
Yes, impatient republianmushroom May 14 #64
Nothing remarkable for an almost 80-year-old on aspirin or blood thinners. Too much wishful thinking. Doodley May 14 #65
My dad will be 82 in July and his hands look nothing like that Rob H. May 14 #66

Silver Gaia

(5,439 posts)
4. Where is the "missing chunk" located?
Thu May 14, 2026, 06:01 AM
May 14

That shot is so blurry. All I see is a gnarled, wrinkly old guy hand.

John1956PA

(5,119 posts)
7. I think the reference is to a perceived divot in the lower center of the backside of the right hand.
Thu May 14, 2026, 06:27 AM
May 14

It is believed by many that the backside of his right hand underwent trauma from insertion of IV needles. It is thought that he wore bandaging and makeup on it last year.

niyad

(134,117 posts)
8. If you enlarge the image, and look right above the cuff, there is a
Thu May 14, 2026, 06:32 AM
May 14

depression just to the left of center.

ratchiweenie

(8,241 posts)
59. I am an old woman. When I hold my hand at the same angle, I have a deep divot to the right of the tendon and a shallower
Thu May 14, 2026, 11:13 AM
May 14

one to the left. This is not missing flesh, it is just old wrinkled skin.

Response to Xipe Totec (Reply #32)

Trueblue Texan

(4,621 posts)
47. No...there is definitely flesh missing...
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:07 AM
May 14

and notice the bruising is broader than previously. The makeup isn’t stretched quite as far as the bruising. I wonder if he had some kind of incident with an IV.

obamanut2012

(29,518 posts)
56. ahve plenty of folks in my life 70-98, none of their hands are like that
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:55 AM
May 14

None.

That isn't from arthritis.

Redleg

(7,036 posts)
14. That is some disgraceful shit there
Thu May 14, 2026, 07:21 AM
May 14

They have to be rubes to believe that Trump is Christ-like or an instrument of God (or god if you prefer).

Orrex

(67,411 posts)
18. "Rubes" is far too polite a term for those ignorant racist fuckheads
Thu May 14, 2026, 07:34 AM
May 14

They already worship him; they happily equate him with Jesus, except that Jesus didn’t suffer nearly as much (in their view).

Redleg

(7,036 posts)
50. It is far too polite for some of them- I am trying to moderate my language somewhat
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:15 AM
May 14

I pride myself on my facility to swear in great vulgar torrents and to devise creative new combinations of filthy and derogatory terms. The problem is that I don't have the words to truly describe the absolute shit-fuckery of these worthless people.

indusurb

(350 posts)
11. That's scarrification from getting ongoing IV sticks
Thu May 14, 2026, 07:01 AM
May 14

That's almost a perfect match, in miniature, of the scars I got in the crooks of both elbows from selling plasma twice a week for two years back in the eighties. Granted they were using twelve gauge needles on me, whereas they're using much smaller needles on Trump, but elderly skin doesn't heal as well and scars quicker.

Still he must be getting a heck of a lot of IV sticks for some malady or other. Look for one of those divots to show up on his left hand because once you get that kindof scar tissue it's tough and painful to get a needle through it.

Sympthsical

(11,132 posts)
29. Looks the same to me. Old hand + IV
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:04 AM
May 14

Which we kind of knew he was getting an IV for something.

That's just how that ends up looking sometimes.

But "chunk of flesh!" is certainly some clickbait.

Understandable that everyone's hopeful, but this doesn't look that unusual in someone hedging 80 who's had peripheral IVs.

I am dreadfully curious what he's being treated for. Of course there is tons of speculation, but even educated guesses are still diagnosing from afar. One imagines we'll find out someday. The people around him can't keep anything quiet ever for very long.

FakeNoose

(42,499 posts)
35. Yes ... plus he plays a lot of golf ... so a lot of time in the sun
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:15 AM
May 14

I'm sure he's got age spots (former freckles) on his skin. That's partly why he wears that awful orange makeup on his face, but most people never think to cover age spots on the hands or arms.

yardwork

(69,689 posts)
46. Oh let's speculate!
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:01 AM
May 14

Separating this from Trump, what are some possible reasons for regular IV infusions in the hand over a long period of time?

I don't have much knowledge about this. Maybe...

Chemo infusions for cancer or an autoimmune disease? Or a weird woo-woo elixir of life treatment recommended by RFK, Jr.?

I would not be surprised if he's doing some kind of weird woo-woo treatment recommended by the weirdos around him.

NH Ethylene

(31,397 posts)
58. For chemo, they generally create a port.
Thu May 14, 2026, 11:03 AM
May 14

I had one on my chest when I had cancer. I don't understand why they would repeatedly give him IVs in his hand when they could use a portal that's always available.

But I don't know much about this sort of thing.

Silver Gaia

(5,439 posts)
67. Yes. They put a port in the upper chest for chemo.
Thu May 14, 2026, 03:01 PM
May 14

Multiple hand IVs would be impractical for chemo infusions..

sinkingfeeling

(58,075 posts)
17. I have a missing muscle under my left thumb on the palm side. I'm back in the US to have
Thu May 14, 2026, 07:28 AM
May 14

medical tests run on it. I've been told it's a known condition that can be the result of carpal tunnel. I even posted about it with photos a few months ago.

Trueblue Texan

(4,621 posts)
49. Blow the photo up...
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:10 AM
May 14

Where the central tendon meets his cuff, there is definitely flesh missing. But it looks like it’s mostly healed. My guess is he had a bad experience with an IV.

Johnny2X2X

(24,441 posts)
22. Chemo
Thu May 14, 2026, 07:52 AM
May 14

There are types of chemo that can eat the skin, but they would probably not give that through the hand.

Why didn’t the media ask him about it more?

Johnny2X2X

(24,441 posts)
39. So true
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:33 AM
May 14

I think I fully realized it during the 2024 campaign when Trump was completely controlling the media coverage of both he and Biden and then Harris. When it came out in court before that that Trump basically had medi9a members from the NY Times and MSNBC on his campaign payroll and it was barely covered as a scandal I realized that he spent the last 4 years corrupting the media and if he had plants at the NYT and MSNBC, he had plants everywhere. I told a friend that if he has the media in his pocket like I think he might, it won't matter who runs against him, he will beat them. And that's exactly what played out where the media just magnified his campaign's themes and hammered Biden and then Harris. The his buddy took over Twitter and he started paling around with Zuckerberg and I knew he had social media too.

I don't know if we can win with the media being controlled like this. Substance doesn't matter when the GOP can just utter their opponent is woke, and then the media parrots it while social media fills voters' social media feeds with propaganda. I don't know if we can break through that without doing work behind the scenes to uncorrupt all of this.

Irish_Dem

(82,476 posts)
43. He wins because of all of it, not just the media.
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:37 AM
May 14

He owns the courts, congress, corporations, universities, voting machines,
districting efforts, and most of the media, US military and ICE.

And he is silencing any criticism with his arrests and lawsuits against whistleblowers.

He has the entire system sewn up.

Even if he doesn't win, he can declare fraud and get the troops in place.

Johnny2X2X

(24,441 posts)
45. His lawsuit vs the IRS
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:47 AM
May 14

I think that's a trial balloon for me. He's negotiated a multi $billion dollar settlement with himself. How this gets covered is a litmus test. If it doesn't garner the largest media outrage ever, we are cooked.

I think they'll try to seal the terms of the settlement, but the amount will leak. If this isn't a massive story, we just don't have any hope. And if he gets away with it, expect more lawsuits for bigger amounts.

Swede

(40,144 posts)
24. It's definately weird looking. Like a circular burn, the skin next to the circle looks more normal.
Thu May 14, 2026, 07:55 AM
May 14

Rotting in real time.

Vinca

(54,358 posts)
25. I'm not seeing it. It just looks like an arthritic, wrinkly, gross, tiny hand.
Thu May 14, 2026, 07:56 AM
May 14

Looks like there's an indentation where he gets some kind of IV, but that's been there. My husband disagrees with me. He says it looks like something's been sucked out of his hand. No bruising, no bandage??

NCDem47

(3,523 posts)
31. That hand photo needed to come with a trigger warning.
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:06 AM
May 14

Vomit city.

I'm sorry...nothing about that looks normal.

hatrack

(65,184 posts)
38. Chunk of flesh? Nah . . . but definitely shitty circulation, courtesy of age and needles . . .
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:19 AM
May 14

.

Ms. Toad

(38,826 posts)
54. Looks like fat atrophy to me.
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:37 AM
May 14

I'm familiar with it from a foot condition treated by injections of steroids between the toes. It things out the far pad on the bottom of the foot, and often also creates divots like that between the metatarsals on the top of the foot as the fat dies off in response to the the steroids.

MineralMan

(151,612 posts)
60. Nothing is missing on his hand.
Thu May 14, 2026, 11:24 AM
May 14

That divot is the junction of two tendons in the back of the hand. On old people, they can stand out.|

The photo depicts no missing tissues.

Doodley

(12,084 posts)
65. Nothing remarkable for an almost 80-year-old on aspirin or blood thinners. Too much wishful thinking.
Thu May 14, 2026, 01:07 PM
May 14

Rob H.

(5,926 posts)
66. My dad will be 82 in July and his hands look nothing like that
Thu May 14, 2026, 01:23 PM
May 14

Granted, it's a sample size of 1 and my dad doesn't live on Big Macs and Diet Coke and isn't morbidly obese like Orange Foolius, but that doesn't look normal to me.

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