Trump Struggles To Squeeze His 'Cankles' Under Tiny Desk

The president, for the last year, has been trying to avoid speculation about the condition of his “cankles”- and they made another appearance on Friday, including a very funny visual.

According to The Daily Beast, Trump appeared behind a “tiny desk,” while signing an executive order demanding that no football broadcasts take place on the day of the Army/Navy Game.

“As he went to sit down at a desk to sign the executive order, Trump seemed to just his leg out for support, bending it at an awkward angle,” The Daily Beast said. “The president gripped the sides of the desk to get himself down. The Daily Beast reached out to the White House for an update about the president’s health.”

🚨 President Trump signs order shielding the Army-Navy Game from competing broadcasts, then rejects autopen use, saying “This is not an autopen… it didn’t work”pic.twitter.com/oQJHrwjBH8

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The report also said that the president’s legs “appeared to be bulging as he sat with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office on Thursday.”

The White House said last year, when asked about the ankle appearance, that the president was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. As the president ages, this has led to continuing questions, as have the frequent appearances of bruising on Trump’s hands.

After signing the order, Trump also took shots at his predecessor, Joe Biden.

“This is not an autopen,” Trump joked to the assembled Navy football team while signing the order. “Imagine taking it and saying, ‘Would you please have this signed?’ Somehow, I don’t know how they got by that. It didn’t work.”

“Trump has claimed the device was used by Biden’s advisors to cover up his cognitive decline, suggesting that the former president didn’t know what he was signing. However, the DOJ quietly ended their investigation into the autopen in early March because they were unable to build a case against Biden,” the Daily Beast reported.

Trump signs order intended to protect the Army-Navy football game’s exclusive TV window.

“We’ll probably get sued at some point,” Trump said. He also mused about having “much more power” in his second term to pursue such changes.

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Also questioned was the legality of the executive order.

Per Politico, the order “appears to grant [the FCC chairman] the bandwidth to revoke licenses for any broadcasters who schedule a college football game ‘in a manner that directly conflicts with the Army-Navy Game,’ which has been broadcast on CBS since 1996.”

“Of course, we’ll probably get sued at some point,” Trump acknowledged.

Photo courtesy of an X screenshot.