President Donald Trump, 74, left the public in shock and in curiosity after he appeared at a White House press gaggle on Tuesday with what looked like makeup covering a patch on the back of his hand.
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The makeup appeared to be concealing a raised circular area of skin that Trump’s team may have been eager to hide.
‘More likely than not, he has some bruising on his hand and they are trying to hide it,’ Dr Boback Berookhim, a New York-based urologist and men’s se+ual health specialist, told Daily Mail.
‘It could be from a blood draw, an insect bite or potentially from hitting his hand against something.’
That small raised bump after a blood draw is a minor histamine reaction to the needle’s micro-trauma, a response that typically fades within hours but can lead to more dramatic bruising in older adults due to naturally thinner, stiffer blood vessels.
‘President Trump is a man of the people and he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis than any other President in history,’ press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Dr Neal Patel, a primary care physician in Orange County, California, said, ‘Shaking too many hands is a little bit a stretch. President Trump has had something like this in the past, and from my experience and my patients, I would put that lower on the list of possibilities.’
He added that bruising after a simple blood draw would be entirely expected in someone of Trump’s age and is far more common among seniors.
