A lot of attention has been paid of late to President Donald Trump’s swollen ankles, to the point where the White House was accused of trying to hide them in an official photo.
Lawrence O’Donnell, on MSNBC earlier this week, accused Trump of taking “extreme lengths” to hide those ankles.
“Presidents actually rarely sit at the Oval Office desk like that during meetings in the Oval Office with people from outside the White House staff. The president usually sits in one of those chairs in front of the fireplace. That’s where the president always sat in every Oval Office meeting I was in when I worked in the Senate,” the MSNBC host said on this show.
Trump, in a Truth Social post later that night, ripped MSNBC and its supposed ratings woes.
When I tell y’all Lawrence be having me YELL-LAUGHING 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. DEM ANKLES 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/UELaQS6HqB
— Luculent 🇭🇹 (@ThaKingzLane) August 20, 2025
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Last month, the White House put out a letter from Trump’s official physician, Sean Barbabella, sharing that Trump had been diagnosed with a condition called chronic venous insufficiency.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt read a letter from the doctor in July, which was later released.
The president underwent “a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies,” and that “bilateral lower extremity venous Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed chronic venous insufficiency, a benign and common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70.”
In July’s CNN story, other doctors addressed the condition.
I am definitely looking forward to the very soon day that “Swollen Cankles” Trump gets impeached—again. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles pic.twitter.com/m0CPnsrbrl
— CryptoKong (@CryptoKong59483) August 21, 2025
“If a person is older, a person is overweight, a person is not engaging in regular physical activity or exercise, if a person is sitting or standing for prolonged amounts of time, you can get chronic venous insufficiency,” Dr. Chris Pernell told CNN.
“Even if he doesn’t have heart disease, the condition needs to be addressed. If it’s not managed with compression stockings and elevation, severe swelling and ulcers can develop, warranting more significant medical interventions,” Kwame Amankwah, a physician who is chief of vascular surgery at the University of Connecticut, told Reuters.
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