He's getting regularly injected with something

Looks like an IV drip catheter under that bandaid.  Pictures of his hand with heavy makeup over the area have been posted for months now.  

Yes, I'm speculating.  Seems like a safe bet, though.
 

Grandpa's meds need to be adjusted

 

Love this angle

 

The Orange God King is looking really unhealthy

 

Is Grandpa stroking out?

 

Not dead yet

 

That's a little early for him, isn't it?  Does this mean he won't be bleating at 2 in the morning?

Wait...

Did he get up and go back to bed?

Rumors

JD Vance told an audience that he's absolutely capable of taking the helm if anything happened to Trump, and Trump cancelled a golf date. Social media is awash with "ghoulposting" Trump's death.

They could get Gavin Newsom's press office to write them.

He may go out to play golf, but he's not "perfectly fine." 

UPDATE 03:13 pm: 

Definitely not looking "well".

UPDATE 08/31/2025:

Trump's health

 Cankles and bruising (most likely from IVs).

Still has that trim 230 pound 6'3" body, though.

Yikes

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

What a pair.

(In case you haven't heard the reference, Kennedy says doctors found a dead worm in his brain some years back.)

Sure, dude.  Sure.

UPDATE 08/24/2024:

He knows he's going to lose, so he's laying the groundwork to claim an illegitimate Harris/Walz win.

15 months ago...

Maybe...

Except he needs to campaign and look in the peak of health versus Biden.  It's a dilemma. 

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Trump visits DC

Donald Trump has insisted that an unannounced visit to Washington DC is a “working trip” amid a mountain of online speculation about the reason for his visit to the US capital.

  Yahoo

"Working" on weaseling out of a criminal indictment.

In an apparent bid to stamp out speculation about his activities, he said: “Working today at Trump Washington DC on the Potomac River. What an incredible place!

Speculation surrounding the former president began on Sunday when a video shared to social media by @PenguinSix, a freelance journalist based in DC, showed Mr Trump disembarking the Cessna Citation X jet he has used for air transport since leaving office before getting into a black Sport Utility Vehicle.

[...]

Citizens for Ethics, a Washington DC-based non-profit and government watchdog, meanwhile tweeted: “Look, it’s kind of weird that Trump flew to DC tonight and no one seems to know why. There’s a lot of speculation, so let’s just wait until we know more before jumping to conclusions. But it is weird.”

Jumping to conclusions is our best sport.

Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. has said it cannot confirm or deny reports that Donald Trump visited the facility on Sunday amid speculation surrounding the former president.

  Newsweek

If you won't tell us, I guess we'll just have to speculate.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Well, that's a possibility, but they GOP has to flip the House before that can be done.

What is this freedom of speech of which you speak?

James Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University and an attending physician under contract for Walter Reed, criticized Trump in October for his decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized at the Bethesda, Md., facility.

“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential 'drive-by' just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity,” Phillips tweeted.

He later said in an interview that Trump’s “dangerous move” sent the “wrong message.”

Sources told CBS that Phillips was removed from rotation at Walter Reed, though officials there denied that it was their decision.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Okay, then

Opening the door to validating all those psychiatrists who have been offering opinions on Trump's mental health.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Typhoid Donnie

Mr. Trump secured a statement from the White House physician clearing him to return to public activities on Saturday and then promptly said he would try to hold a campaign rally in Florida that day, two days earlier than the doctor had originally said was needed to determine whether he was truly out of danger. The president again dismissed the virus, saying, “when you catch it, you get better,” ignoring the more than 212,000 people in the United States who did not get better and died from it.

  NYT

Mr. Superspreader is a super prick.

In his statement on Thursday night, the physician, Dr. Sean P. Conley, reported that Mr. Trump “has responded extremely well to treatment” and that by Saturday, “I fully expect the president’s return to public engagement.” Dr. Conley, who has previously acknowledged providing the public with a rosy view of the president’s condition to satisfy his patient, contradicted his own timeline offered upon Mr. Trump’s release from the hospital, when he said doctors wanted to “get through to Monday.”

All of Trump's doctors seem to have been whores.

The president castigated his own team, declaring that Attorney General William P. Barr would go down in history “as a very sad, sad situation” if he did not indict Democrats like Mr. Biden and former President Barack Obama.

[...]

“He’s got all the information he needs,” the president said. “They want to get more, more, more, they keep getting more. I said, ‘You don’t need any more.’”

[...]

“Unless Bill Barr indicts these people for crimes, the greatest political crime in the history of our country, then we’re going to get little satisfaction unless I win and we’ll just have to go, because I won’t forget it,” Mr. Trump said.

Huh?

Note to Bill Barr: You simply can't debase yourself enough to avoid taking shit from Trump sooner or later. Did you think you were somehow special?

Ditto to Mike Pompeo.

He complained that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had not released Hillary Clinton’s emails, saying, “I’m not happy about him for that reason.”

[...]

The president was all over the map in [...] two Fox phone calls, throwing out unsubstantiated or discredited accusations, explaining that he wanted to bring home troops from Afghanistan to be ready to fight China or Russia if necessary and calling Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan “the lockup queen” even as his own Justice Department was announcing the existence of an anti-government group’s plot to kidnap her.

As for his opponents, he said on Fox Business that Mr. Biden “wouldn’t be president for two months” because “he’s not mentally capable,” leaving Ms. Harris to then take over the presidency. “She’s a communist,” he said. “We’re going to have a communist.” A few hours later, Mr. Trump reposted Twitter messages claiming that Speaker Nancy Pelosi might be orchestrating “a coup” against him.

[...]

Ms. Pelosi said she planned to introduce legislation on Friday creating a commission on presidential capacity to review the health of a commander in chief under provisions of the 25th Amendment providing for the temporary transfer of power to the vice president in case of inability to discharge the duties of the office. “Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation,” Mr. Trump replied on Twitter.

He's high as a kite on dexamethasone.

Mr. Trump told his Fox interviewers that he felt well despite his hospitalization, although during his evening phone call with Sean Hannity, his voice at times sounded raspy and twice he had to clear his throat.

[...]

Watching the news coverage and angry at the state of the race, Mr. Trump has been imploring aides to let him resume campaign rallies as soon as this weekend. He showed up again in the Oval Office on Thursday despite efforts to get him to remain in the residence until he was more fully recovered. In addition to the attempt to hold a rally in Florida on Saturday, he said he would try to stage one the following day in Pennsylvania.

He is in no shape to go campaigning. Not to mention, he's contagious.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that a person infected with the coronavirus can be with other people 10 days after symptoms first appear if the patient has gone 24 hours free of fever without the use of medication that reduces temperatures and if other symptoms are improving.

[...]

Mr. Trump’s doctors have said he has not experienced fever in days, but the dexamethasone steroid he is taking is known to hide a fever.

[...]

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, even indicated that he was boycotting the White House because of its lax handling of the virus.

“I haven’t actually been to the White House since August the 6th because my impression was that their approach to how to handle this is different from mine and what I suggested that we do in the Senate, which is to wear a mask and practice social distancing,” Mr. McConnell told reporters.

Mitch may be evil, but he's not stupid.

Experts said resuming a public schedule might worsen Mr. Trump’s condition, which could still rapidly deteriorate in the next several days. Covid-19, an unpredictable disease, can suddenly and unexpectedly worsen during a patient’s second week of illness. Based on the information provided, “No, I would not clear him to start public engagements on Saturday,” said Dr. Phyllis Tien, an infectious disease physician at the University of California, San Francisco, where she conducts and advises on Covid-19 clinical trials.

[...]

[Trump] said he was no longer taking the experimental drugs used to treat the virus, but he added that he was still taking a steroid [dexamethasone] that doctors say can produce bursts of energy, euphoria and even a sense of invulnerability.

He'll be asking for them until the day he dies now.

“I felt pretty lousy,” Mr. Trump said. But, he added, “I’m back because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young.” He once again played down the severity of the disease. “Now what happens is you get better,” he said. “That’s what happens, you get better.”

Tell that to 210,000 dead Americans.

Mr. Trump later released a video addressed specifically to senior citizens, who were once his political base but have increasingly soured on him as they have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, according to polls.

“To my favorite people in the world, the seniors,” he said in the video. “I’m a senior. I know you don’t know that. Nobody knows that. Maybe you don’t have to tell them. But I’m a senior.”

I thought he was joking when he said he was extremely young. I guess not.

Acknowledging that he had been “very sick,” he praised the experimental treatments he was given for the virus and vowed to provide them to seniors. “I want you to get the same care that I got,” he said. “You’re going to get the same medicine. You’re going to get it free, no charge, and we’re going to get it to you soon.”

That is complete and utter bullshit.

Alex Conant, a Republican strategist and former aide to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, said that the Trump campaign was entering a dangerous period, one when a campaign heading for a possible defeat can become treacherous.

“The knives come out, the donors flee and the candidate throws embarrassing Hail Marys,” he said. “Most politicians can handle losing a race, but they really don’t want to be embarrassed. When a loss seems inevitable, people who want a future in politics start looking out for their own interests. People start looking over their shoulders.”

And they may well have waited too long to act.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

When did he last test negative?

They're not telling.  Why?

Watch this timeline and ask yourself if Trump is the one spreading Covid-19, and if perhaps he arrived late to the debate with Joe Biden on purpose.

 

It's something he would do.  He'd have to have accomplices keeping the information quiet, but is that impossible to imagine in this White House?

Perhaps not.  But it wouldn't surprise me.

Don't be afraid of Covid.  Go on out and get infected.  Spread it around.  You'll feel great.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

If Trump had/has pneumonia, Conley won't be allowed to say so in light of the stink Trump made over Hillary contracting pneumonia during the 2016 race.

Trump in the hospital

How will we know the difference?

He was just put on dexamethasone today.

Dexamethasone is used to treat many different inflammatory conditions such as allergic disorders and skin conditions. Dexamethasone is also used to treat ulcerative colitis, arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, and breathing disorders.

  Drugs.com

😆  They should have cut it a split second before they did.

The White House’s shifting chronology and lack of transparency are being driven, in part, by Trump’s desire to conceal the seriousness of his illness from the public. Three sources said Trump argued with his doctors on Friday after they told him he needed to be moved to Walter Reed. “He didn’t want to go to the hospital a month before the election,” a Republican close to Trump told me. Two sources said doctors gave Trump an ultimatum: he could go to the hospital while he could still walk, or doctors would be forced to take him in a wheelchair or on a stretcher at a later point if his health deteriorated.

  Vanity Fair

That was exactly my thought when he went to the hospital. They must have been convinced he was in bad shape already.

Trump waited to leave for the hospital until the stock market closed on Friday, a source said.

[...]

On Friday, Trump grew visibly anxious as his fever spiked to 103 fahrenheit and he was administered oxygen at the White House. [...] Two sources told me Trump experienced heart palpitations on Friday night—possible side effects of the experimental antibody treatment he received. Trump has wondered aloud if he could defeat the disease. “Am I going out like Stan Chera?” Trump has asked aides, referring to his friend, New York real-estate developer Stan Chera, who died of COVID in April.

[...]

[I]t is difficult to assess the information given the White House's history of lying. According to a source, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has told Republicans that the next few days will be critical to determine the virus’s outcome. “Meadows has said if Trump can get out of the hospital by Tuesday, then he’s gone through the worst of it. But if he’s still there after Tuesday, the worst is yet to come,” the source told me.

Inside Trumpworld, the shock of Trump’s hospitalization is giving way to despair about his prospects in the upcoming election. “They all know it’s over,” a Republican close to the campaign said. “This is spiraling out of control,” a former West Wing official said. Some Trump allies are entertaining conspiracy theories that the White House outbreak was caused by someone with political motives. “It’s weird that all these Republicans are getting it,” a prominent Republican told me. “I don’t know what the fuck is going on. But one thing I’ve learned is: when something major happens thirty days before an election, it usually has to do with the election.”

No, you nutjob. It has to do with Republicans not following scientific and medical guidance, flaunting their ignorance, and superspreader events fourty days before an election.

Meanwhile, America’s closest allies are entertaining wild scenarios as well. An outside White House adviser told me that a high-level government official from a G-7 country asked him if Trump would try to appoint Ivanka president instead of Mike Pence. “He’s broken every norm so far, so they think anything is possible,” the source said.

We all do at this point.

What's happening?

You can't get anything approaching the truth out of this administration.

White House physician Sean Conley said Saturday that President Trump is doing “very well” after being hospitalized with coronavirus, however his positive statements were undercut as an official described Trump’s condition as “very concerning.” Conley told reporters that the president's symptoms of a mild cough, nasal congestion and fatigue are improving, while sidestepping questions about Trump’s treatment and creating uncertainty about the timeline of his diagnosis.

[...]

[I]immediately after he spoke, a source familiar with the president’s health told reporters that the president’s vitals over the past 24 hours were “very concerning” and described the next 48 hours as “critical in terms of his care.”

“We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery,” the person said.

  The Hill

There'll be a quick investigation, and "the person" will be fired.

The Associated Press and other outlets later attributed the statements to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff.

Oh ho! When is Trump going to make Jared his Chief of Staff?

Conley did not give a date when he expects Trump to be released from the hospital, but said the president has been fever-free for over 24 hours after experiencing a fever “Thursday into Friday.” Conley declined to disclose the specific temperature of the president’s fever.

At the first press briefing from a doctor since Trump announced his positive test early Friday morning, Conley danced around questions about whether the president had ever been on oxygen, repeatedly saying he was not currently on it. He later said that Trump had not been on it Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Conley also said that Trump has not experienced difficulty breathing.

“More than anything, he’s felt run down,” Conley told reporters.

Conley also raised new questions about the timeline of Trump’s diagnosis when he described Trump as “72 hours” into his diagnosis. The White House revealed Trump’s positive test in the early hours of Friday morning, which was less than 48 hours ago.

A White House official later clarified Conley’s remarks, saying that he meant to say that it is day three of the president’s diagnosis, not 72 hours.

This administration does more "what he meant to say" "corrections" than anybody I've ever come across.

Conley later issued a memo correcting his statement to clarify that Trump was diagnosed on Thursday evening and that he was given an experimental antibody cocktail on Friday, rather than 48 hours prior.

I bet he did.

The doctors did not give a date of the president’s last negative test, which is important for understanding when exactly he contracted the virus and conducting contact tracing of those who might have become infected from contact with him.

They're not going to do that. They didn't ever even tell the Biden campaign that they may have been exposed at the debate.

Trump is receiving an experimental antibody therapy from Regeneron, in addition to the antiviral drug remdesivir, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in hospitalized coronavirus patients.

[...]

The first lady is said to have mild symptoms, including a mild cough and headache, and is remaining at the residence.

Ha.  Yeah.  He's not only got it, he's passing it around.

What did the president know and when did he know it?

UPDATE:  The dance Conley did about oxygen is apparently clarified by knowing that Trump received oxygen at the White House before going to the hospital.  Why couldn't Conley say that?

UPDATE:  Totally expected:

Might not be enough to save his job.

UPDATE:

On Thursday, Trump attended a political fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminister, New Jersey, even though he was aware he had been exposed to the infected Hicks. That night, sounding unconcerned, he gave an interview to Sean Hannity of Fox News, apparently blaming the military or law enforcement for violating physical distancing: “They want to hug you and kiss you because we really have done a good job for them. You get close, and things happen.”

  Guardian

Not any more they don't. What a despicable thing to do: blame the only people outside the nutjobs and racists who support you.