Speculation Erupts as Trump, 79, Bites on Mystery Blue Object at U.S. Open

{A photograph} of Donald Trump with a mysterious blue object between his tooth on the U.S. Open has sparked livid on-line hypothesis.

Photographer Andres Kudacki snapped the president watching the lads’s closing between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday. The photograph exhibits the president, flanked by White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt, about to chew down on the blue object.

“I don’t know what it was particularly, I mentioned it was a ‘pill’ as that works for each, a mint or a pill,” Kudacki mentioned.

The award-winning Argentinan photographer, based mostly in New York, additionally confirmed he didn’t see Trump take the article out of a container, noting “he was very discreet.”

“I used to be ready for some response from him, he’s a giant persona,” Kudacki mentioned of snapping Trump.

The Each day Beast has contacted the White Home for clarification.

Hypothesis on X over what Trump might have been about to devour has raged from blue-colored Wintergreen Altoid mints to a variety of potential treatment for varied illnesses obtainable in blue drugs, together with the blue, square-shaped Hygroton, which is used for hypertension and Edema.

Edema is swelling that’s brought on by an excessive amount of fluid trapped within the physique’s tissues. Whereas it could have an effect on any a part of the physique, it’s mostly current in legs and ft.

After the president’s swollen ankles and bruised palms grew to become extra evident, the White Home admitted in July that he had been identified with continual venous insufficiency, an affliction which develops when key valves in leg veins are not capable of assist blood move again as much as the guts.

Leavitt claimed the check up got here after the president had “famous gentle swelling in his decrease legs, with the doctor conducting a “complete examination, together with diagnostic vascular research.”

A report launched in April mentioned his blood pressure was 128 over 74, which is taken into account elevated, nonetheless the White Home didn’t state he was taking treatment for hypertension.

The bodily acknowledged Trump’s daily medications had been rosuvastatin and ezetimibe to deal with ldl cholesterol plus aspirin. One other of Trump’s docs revealed in 2017 that at the moment he was taking finasteride to deal with baldness.

The treatment hypothesis comes after the Labor Day weekend when social media was abuzz with wild claims that the president’s lack of public appearances might have been hiding a well being incident. On X, the hashtags #TRUMPISDEAD and #TRUMPDIED went viral.

The mint concept, nonetheless, might very properly show right. Trump was caught on digital camera discussing his use of Tic Tacs to enhance his breath in a crude dialog in 2005, launched in 2016 by The Washington Post.

Speaking to Billy Bush forward of uttering the notorious “seize them by the p–y” line, Trump says “Yeah that’s her with the gold. I higher use some Tic Tacs simply in case I begin kissing her. You recognize I’m mechanically interested in stunning… I simply begin kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Simply kiss. I don’t even wait. And if you’re a star they allow you to do it. You are able to do something.”