Donald Trump as soon as famously bragged that there was “no drawback” along with his palms, however one in every of his Democratic rivals isn’t so sure that’s true anymore.
The president on Tuesday took a shot at California Gov. Gavin Newsom throughout a three-hour-plus cupboard assembly, remarking that the telegenic Democrat — for years talked about as a possible presidential candidate — is “good man, handsome” however “has some hand action happening.”
“There’s one thing happening there,” Trump added of Newsom’s palms.
The weird comment gave the impression to be an allusion to assaults leveled at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz throughout final yr’s presidential marketing campaign. After the genial Gopher State govt was tapped as then-vice president Kamala Harris’ operating mate, Trump’s marketing campaign and lots of of his allies used video of Walz waving and gesturing throughout public appearances to falsely suggest that he was secretly homosexual.
However Newsom, who in recent weeks has been aggressively using social media to mock and assault the president, hit again on X with a easy query: “You actually need to have the dialog about palms?”
The comment might be a callback to a few Trump points involving his palms — one tied to current well being issues and one other over their measurement, first raised by a then-rival on the 2016 marketing campaign path.
Through the 2016 Republican major Trump received right into a debate stage argument with then-Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — now his secretary of state — over the respective sizes of their palms (a metric typically utilized in standard tradition as an indicator of a male’s bodily endowment) with Trump telling the Floridian: “I assure you there isn’t any drawback” after Rubio implied that Trump had diminutive palms.
However Newsom’s well timed clap-back additionally alluded to current hypothesis over the situation of Trump’s palms stemming from a collection of appearances throughout which the president confirmed both seen bruising or heavy, poorly-applied make-up that was making an attempt to cowl the big black-and-blue marks on his proper hand.
The darkish marks have been seen on his palms since final summer time, at which level then-campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt — now White Home press secretary — mentioned they had been the results of Trump “continuously working and shaking palms all day, on daily basis” amidst the trials of a presidential run.
However final month, after reporters pressed Leavitt about each the bruising and a collection of images exhibiting Trump’s ankles to be very swollen, she launched a memorandum from Doctor to the President Dr. Sean Barbabella that attributed the “minor bruising on the again of his hand” to “minor delicate tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the usage of aspirin,” a ache reliever and blood thinner that’s typically taken as a preventative.
Barbabella, a U.S. Navy doctor who holds the rank of Captain, additionally mentioned Trump’s swollen legs had been a results of “power venous insufficiency,” which he known as a “benign and customary situation” for somebody on the age of the 79-year-old former actual property developer.
But that clarification hasn’t stopped liberal commentators from suggesting extra is afoot.
On Tuesday, YouTuber Keith Edwards — a former staffer for the anti-Trump Lincoln Challenge — posted a side-by-side comparability of Trump’s hand throughout a Monday occasion and the hand of the late Queen Elizabeth II throughout an viewers with then-prime minister Liz Truss.
Edwards famous that the {photograph} of the late Queen with Truss was taken simply two days earlier than she handed, ending greater than 70 years on the British throne.
