Karoline Leavitt Explains Trump’s Hand Bandages: ‘The President Is Actually…’

Donald Trump’s press secretary provided a brand new clarification for the bandages and sticking plasters which have not too long ago appeared on the president’s arms, after weeks of hypothesis about his well being. Social media and observers normally observed darkish purple bruising on Trump’s proper hand, which he typically tries to cover with make-up concealer that hardly ever matches his pores and skin tone. However the swap to plasters in current weeks raised extra questions on POTUS’s well being.Talking at a White Home press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed any considerations, stating that the markings had been merely a results of Trump’s packed schedule and his frequent handshaking. “The president is actually continuously shaking arms,” she stated. “The Oval Workplace is like Grand Central terminal. He’s assembly with extra folks than any of about each day.”Leavitt stated that Trump is on a every day aspirin routine, which she revealed has been famous in earlier medical reviews to trigger bruising. “He’s additionally on a every day aspirin routine which is one thing his bodily examinations have stated prior to now can contribute to that bruising that you just see,” she stated.Leavitt was additionally pressed to make clear when Trump took the three cognitive checks he claims to have “aced,” however she stated she didn’t have the dates obtainable and would offer them later.The feedback comply with a ranting session from Trump on Reality Social earlier this week, which was directed at a New York Instances report suggesting that the 79-year-old president could also be slowing down. Trump insisted he had simply taken one other “Cognitive Examination” in entrance of “giant numbers of docs and specialists” and stated that he “ACED” it.He accused the newspaper of spreading falsehoods about his bodily and psychological well being. “Regardless of all of this, the time and work concerned, The New York Instances, and a few others, wish to faux that I’m ‘slowing up,’ am possibly not as sharp as I as soon as was, or am in poor bodily well being, realizing that it isn’t true,” he stated.“I’ll know when I’m ‘slowing up,’ but it surely’s not now!” he added, earlier than claiming that such reporting was “seditious, even perhaps treasonous.”