When President Donald Trump showed up at a White House news conference on Tuesday wearing what seemed to be makeup over a patch on the back of his hand, the public was left perplexed.
Trump’s crew might have been keen to hide a raised circular region of skin, which the makeup seemed to be covering. Medical professionals analysed camera evidence and provided the Daily Mail with their analysis, but they did not treat or evaluate him.
“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 sexual health specialist, told the Daily Mail.
“It could be from a blood draw, an insect bite or potentially from hitting his hand against something.”
A little histamine reaction to the needle’s micro-trauma is what causes that little elevated bump after a blood draw. This reaction usually goes away in a few hours, but in older persons, because their blood vessels are inherently thinner and stiffer, it might cause more significant bruising.
“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 claimed in a statement to the Daily Mail.
