This is not a picture of a well man. The unkempt hair, the goofy grin (ok, that could be because of what he was saying just then), the odd position of the hand. But what I really want to know is, why are his hand, and the bags under his eyes, blue?
This was indoors (see the out-of-focus mural beyond his shoulder), so it’s not because he was exposed to the weather. Also, this was a planned event, so the lighting should have been properly set. My wife, Jean, just looked it up and thinks it could be lack of oxygen. But she’s no more of a doctor than I am.
Any real doctors in the house want to weigh in here?
I posed this question earlier in a comment, and got one reply saying it might be blood pressure. Is that it? He’s certainly had enough reasons for his B/P to go sky-high lately. That might be why he sounded drugged last night: tranquilizers?
It’s been obvious for a while now that he is physically ill. That sudden trip to Walter Reed (never explained), the increasing incidents of sloppy or slurred speech, the increasing incoherence — some of which was on display at this same presser. From TPM (which is where I saw this photo):
[Trump] then went on a near-incoherent rant about his rationale for renaming various global alliances — NATO and the USMCA — claiming he told people they should think of the YMCA song to remember the USMCA abbreviation.
“I actually had a name. NATO, right? And then you have M-E. Middle East. You’d call it NATOME,” he said. “I said, ‘What a beautiful name.’ NATOME. I’m good at names, right? USMCA. Like the song YMCA. Nobody could remember USMCA. I said, ‘think of the song YMCA.’ Now everybody says it.”
We’re getting more and more into 25th Amendment territory here. Question is, when (not if) he finally snaps completely, will he try to grab the football? And will anyone be able to stop him?