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[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

He’s rotting before our eyes like some sort of Dostoyevsky character.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope it’s an aggressive, untreatable, painful, and terminal form of cancer.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

It's probably a side-effect of treatment for actinic keratoses, which are pre-cancerous skin lesions caused by sun exposure. Pale people like Trump are prone to those.

If that's it, keep betting on the cheeseburgers to get him first.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

I just need him to survive to November. Him being alive will drive the blue vote. After that, he can fucking keel over.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

USA, your "powerful leader" is literally displaying insanity dementia and is falling apart in front of your eyes.

If the Cheeto wasn't so fucking evil I'd say this is elderly abuse, but in his case, I just hope he does quickly so that the world can cool down and go to something new and nice

Yeah, I know that it's not just trump, it's all the people that enable him too, but he has this charisma, like Hitler. Trump dies, and the entire maga movement and all the fascist shit does with it.

What? You think that the VP can take over and continue like that? I know maga is dumb, but do you really think anyone would be dumb enough to support that wet towel?

Pete hegseth? Or whatever the fuck that losers name is? You think he'd get support?

Nobody has that nauseating"magic trump touch" that magats love so much that they'll happily let him rob them blind. Trump dies, manga dies.

So please trump, hurry it up, we're waiting for a happy new world where we can finally put wealth caps and shit to make everybody equal, finally

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 118 points 2 days ago (2 children)

His body has automatically gone into draft deferment mode. In the coming weeks, we may see all manner of manifestations.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

If it's a legitimate draft the body has ways of shutting it down

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 18 points 2 days ago

A spur of the moment if you will?

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 105 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)
[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 days ago (1 children)

By the way, look at that horribly mangled, blown-off and then reconstructed ear following the assassination attempt. Why, that bandage he wore for a few days must've been truly miraculous. Amazing /s

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I believe the bullet skimmed the top of an over ketchup'd hot dog before whizzing nearby his ear at this point.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Looks like it could be shingles. That shit can really hurt.

People, particularly old people, with weak immune systems get it pretty often.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I've looked into it further and no longer think it's shingles. Too bad, since shingles can be extremely painful.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There's a vaccine for that.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Mf's probably on every blood thinner known to man to keep his clogged ass McDonalds arteries open.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Looks like they graduated from hand IVs to neck...

Which would be horrible news for virtually any patient, but in this case I feel most wouldn't have the same reaction

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[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It looks like staphylococcus.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh, I was thinking shingles. Which I understand to be incredibly uncomfortable (not sure about a staph infection though it still isn't pleasant)

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Both conditions are unpleasant, but I had a stronger gut instinct towards staph. It’s possible he has shingles because I suspect he never received the vaccine, and his condition is likely not being adequately cared for.

He’s probably receiving the same level of treatment as someone on their deathbed, dragged out for press coverage. Your family has to genuinely care about you, or shenanigans ensue.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Shingles there is unusual, typically shingles break out around the mid body.

no onewants to see that.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Shingles can happen anywhere, even on the face (ouch). I agree mid-body is more common.

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[–] wizbiz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

Please please die soon

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I sure hope it's something serious, thoughts and prayers. 🙏

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hey, whoa, whoa. Let's consider our words. Let's hope it hurts, too.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As long as it's not benign, that would be awful.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thoughts and prayers to the red blotch.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 18 points 2 days ago

I can only imagine the blotch's suffering while being attached to that putrid growth. Best wishes to the blotch.

[–] homes@piefed.world 51 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It would be so awesome if he suddenly just dropped dead

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It would be so funny if he was doing one of his bullshit press conferences where he gets pathetic sycophants to bow and scrape before the king, when they gradually realize that he's been sitting there dead for about ten minutes while they pretended like nothing was wrong for fear of making him look weak.

[–] homes@piefed.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol, that would be really funny

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Death of Stalin" vibes, where Stalin lay dying on the floor in his room for hours because nobody wanted to risk disturbing him.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

I want to see the Ianucci film "Death of Trump." Who else could do justice to this murderous farce?

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You know damn well the GOP will weekend-at-Bernie’s this fucker. His followers will pull an Elvis-never-died-on-the-toilet. Evangelicals will say “he’s not dead, he’s sleeping” while trying to disappear him from a cave. He made everything still active in the GOP all about him. When he dies, it dies.

After November.

If he dies before the midterms, this will get so much worse.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Not yet. I need 8 more months out of this fucker.

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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 52 points 2 days ago

leía voice:

"help us cholesterol , you're our only hope."

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 days ago

C’mon, do something…

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is the weirdest kind of edging i've ever heard of.

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