Aaron Rupar: Whoa -- this is new. Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today

[highplainsdem]

whoa -- this is new. Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today in addition to his disfigured hand

(Saul Loeb/Getty)

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-02T17:47:37.944Z

[niyad]

1. Something fatal, one hopes!

Interesting, that odd little hole.

[SheltieLover]

22. Maybe pres steve bit him?

[niyad]

23. ewwwwww. . now, if stevie has rabies????

[SheltieLover]

25. Yup. That was my 2nd thought.

[niyad]

33. GMTA

[Du916]

34. My first thought was Syphilis

Last edited Mon Mar 2, 2026, 05:47 PM - Edit history (1)

I hope he didn’t spread it to his pre-pubescent victims, he’s in the tertiary stage, it hurts a lot, and he dies.

[ShazzieB]

123. Syphilis has been 100% curable with antibiotic treatment for Trump's entire life.

Penicillin was first successfully used to treat syphilis in 1943. Trump was born in 1946. From the 1940s onwards, syphilis cases dropped sharply in the U.S., reaching their lowest point in 1998-2000.

Could Trump have caught syphilis at some point? Sure. But I think the possibility of a person with lifelong access to top notch medical care, born after syphilis became fully curable, contracting the disease and remaining undiagnosed and untreated long enough for it to reach an advanced stage is vanishingly small.

[homegirl]

62. It has been

rumored in the past that Donald is a long time syphilis (tertiary stage) infected person. Finally showing?

[2MuchNoise]

48. Odd little hole?

The one on his neck or the one right below his nose?

[niyad]

60. Excellent question, but the one on his neck.

[RandySF]

2. Do I see a puncture wound on his neck?

Or some kind of bite mark? An overactive immune system can exacerbate insect bites.

[Hey Joe]

58. Looks like Steven Miller has been feeding again.

[Abolishinist]

81. Found this on the Bluesky link...

[Dave Bowman]

3. Must be syphilis, when in advanced state the body keeps deteriorating. Or maybe it's leprosy?

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Any doctors here care to guess?

This looks like a serious problem.

[sop]

13. Shingles?

[Auggie]

82. Looks like shingles

[anneboleyn]

119. Looks very much like shingles. We had an elderly relative who developed shingles on her neck and scalp

It was absolutely horrible. It looked exactly like the rash on Trump’s neck. It is not uncommon; also it is a sign that Trump’s immune system isn’t working on all cylinders as the body normally suppresses the dormant chicken pox virus that causes shingles. It appears mainly in the elderly and/or chronically ill whose immune systems aren’t functioning at full strength.

[Auggie]

121. My father had it ...

stress can also wake the virus.

One would think krasnov would have been tested and treated for the virus back in 2017. He does have free health care.

Eh ... screw him.

[HappyH]

36. He's still standing so it's not serious enough.

[Wicked Blue]

63. Complication of bone spurs

[Maru Kitteh]

100. RN. Agree it looks like shingles, and that is the most plausible. BUT

Other possibilites are certainly within the range of plausibility as well given his age and recent health signs.

Skin cancer
Other cancer
Gout meds
Some anti-psychotics
Opiods
Lasix (for the cankles)
Radiation burn
Rash as s/e from chemo

other stuff I’m probably forgetting at the moment

The thing that says “shingles” to me is the fact that it’s localized, in a kind of line. That’s not in any way difinitive or exclusive though.

[dweller]

5. May he

Rot In Pieces


✌🏻

[Hugin]

6. It's from shaking hands.

Probably. Most likely. Really.

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[2MuchNoise]

53. LOL!

[RockRaven]

7. Lemme ask four related questions:

1) Is that shingles?
2) Is he in significant pain, which shingles can cause?
3) Is he taking prescription narcotics for that pain, as he is a notorious baby?
4) What duties do military brass have vis-a-vis following orders when their commander-in-chief is impaired by narcotics?


Oh, never mind, we all know that this will be covered up, ignored, forgotten, or swamped anyway.

[niyad]

26. Number 4 is a most excellent point.

[Itchinjim]

8. Shingles

Hope it's painful.

[twodogsbarking]

68. I wouldn't wish shingles on anyone except Trump and Melaaaaaaaaaniaaaaaaaaaah.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

9. Maybe it's shingles?

[leftstreet]

10. Bill Gates needs to slip him some antibiotics n/t

[Traildogbob]

11. STD

From his cronies fucking that NeckJina without a condom. And rashes from heads popping out of it for air from the depth of anal head penetration.

[Blue Dotty]

112. MPox?

First case ever of decapitation by STD?

[Traildogbob]

113. 😂

[sop]

12. Anyone see a scar from the bullet hole in his ear?

[Hugin]

16. I was wondering if that was the ear...

Which was nearly blown off by an assassin.

The wonders of reconstructive surgery.

[niyad]

28. yes, that one.

[Botany]

41. That is the miracle ear that healed itself from a high velocity slug in under 2 weeks and didn't leave a

scab or a scare. BTW those rounds are made to tumble after they hit something too.

As for the wound or outbreak on his neck lets hope it is painful and a symptom of something
bad. It almost looks like an abrasion but those holes in it are strange.

[Traildogbob]

78. Half blown off!!!

According to his gummy son. So to grow back a whole (with a W) half an ear is a miracle on God’s level.

[Botany]

87. I wonder if the abrasion on his neck is from some kind of noose?

Just thinking that.

His election was as real as his “bullet wound” to his ear.

[Traildogbob]

92. Melania

Choked him out. He thought he was due sex for being a war hero. A returning soldier.

[GopherGal]

117. Visitation from the Ghost of Epstein Past

showing him the things he learned about knots in prison. Too bad he didn't have enough rope to stretch all the way around the neck-gina.

[MustLoveBeagles]

43. Nope

Not even after I zoomed in.

[Maru Kitteh]

105. I know people don't want to see it, but it is there. It's tiny because it was

a tiny wound. It bled very little, truthfully, for a wound on the head of an old man on blood thinners because it was a tiny wound. Barely even qualified as a “flesh wound.” More like a bad paper cut.

Because apparently, we can’t have nice things. Like competent assassins or a nice boring weekend.

[sop]

107. This is the only mark I see, a tiny "scar" from a small cut, made by flying debris, it's certainly not a bullet wound.

It could also be an irregularity or bump on the edge of his ear.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

14. Isn't that the ear that got devastatingly shot???

So shot he had to wear a maxi pad on it??

His neckgina looks like rancid raw chicken.

Ugly fuck.

[harumph]

15. Probably a rash from a jacket collar - he does have "Frank's Sign" though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%27s_sign

[ok_cpu]

70. Been here 21+ years and still learn something almost every day. N/T

[randr]

17. He must have a very tight asshole

[Arazi]

19. I hope it's terribly itchy and painful

Fatal works too ☠️

[Diamond_Dog]

20. Stephen Miller visited him after sundown?

[SheltieLover]

24. That was my 1st thought. Lol

[Diamond_Dog]

37. Great minds, Sheltie!

[SheltieLover]

38. Yup lol

[Coldwater]

47. By Jove I think he's got it!

[the nelm]

94. Or maybe Lindsey Graham...n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Maybe it's measles.

[Maru Kitteh]

106. THAT would be awesome.

I wish that were true. It would make me so happy.

[Johonny]

27. He forgot his safe word

Dementia and S&M don't mix

[Attilatheblond]

96. DUZY!

[Walleye]

29. Didn't he have a mark on his cheek on that side yesterday?

[LuvLoogie]

30. He had a stem cell procedure

probably

[mercuryblues]

42. Not like any stem cell procedure

That I've had. And I've had several.

To me, it looks like maybe malaria dug her nails into his neck trying to choke his ass.

[LuvLoogie]

44. Do you really think she'd touch him that much?

Even to choke him?

Dude they are totally Frankensteining that shit mouth bigot.

[mercuryblues]

52. For the right amount of money, she'd do anything

[ananda]

31. Shingles... new IV site... too much aspirin?

???

[Raven123]

32. Give him some horse paste

AKA ivermectin, as a reminder from Covid days

[MustLoveBeagles]

51. If it's good enough for his followers

It's good enough for him 😁 🐴

[ToxMarz]

35. Looks like he's been snuggling with his pet Sea Lamprey again

It keeps him company when Stephen Miller is not around.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

39. That's the Mark of the Beast. Take two Corinthians and call me in the morning!

[FadedMullet]

57. OK, that made me laugh. Nicely done.

[Coldwater]

40. Cankles, rashes on both hands,

emergency plastic surgery on his face to correct his drooping right side from the stroke he suffered, and now a late-night visit from the resident vampire, Stephen Miller, Oh My

[LuvLoogie]

49. I think even Stephen Miller would rather shrivel up and turn to dust than suck on that.

[DFW]

46. Sure, he looks like crap. But--

Since 2017, he has had visible (as well as audible) afflictions that people have been pointing out as sure signs of his imminent demise, and yet there he still is.

When he disappears for a month, and after that, the public only sees him looking mummified, talking only from a great distance in voices that sound like they are AI-generated, THEN we can start up the JD Vance cartoons.

[Jerry2144]

50. It's diaper rash

From 79 yeas of having his head up his ass

[Coldwater]

54. And the last 10 years

up Putin's ass

[Wednesdays]

55. Let's hope it's nothing minor. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

56. .

[Liberal In Texas]

59. He must have some leftover ear kotexes he could put on it. n/t

[Loryn]

61. Poison

Seeping out of his toxic body.

[catbyte]

64. Creeping crud? Rotting from the inside out?

Who knows? Whatever it is, I hope it's itchy and painful.

[Demobrat]

65. It looks painful.

A girl can dream.

[Figarosmom]

66. STD. He's likely got herpes or something worse

That would make me happy to know he'll die in agony.

[sop]

67. Clearly, it's rope burns from trying to do an Epstein, or an attempt at autoerotic asphyxiation gone awry.

[NoMoreRepugs]

69. 2 things - a miraculous recovery of his 'ear wound' and he is one ugly motherF'er....

[MorbidButterflyTat]

71. This thread is

[Talitha]

114. Yeah, we've got some VERY creative people here!

[TNNurse]

72. It does look like shingles

which is unfortunately not lethal. It is miserable though.

[Vinca]

77. I used to say I'd never wish the pain of postherpetic neuralgia on anyone. I've changed my mind.

[TNNurse]

122. I saw a suggestion that this rash

could be necrotizing fasciitis. That would be worse than shingles. It spreads and is very very very hard to treat.

I have seen it in a patient in person and it can be...wait for it...deadly.

I don't think it really is but it is nice to dream.

[kacekwl]

73. Pete Hogsbreath gave him a

Giant hickey last nite.

[ECL213]

74. Looks like Bubba forgot to shave his legs.

[Takket]

75. Maybe he touched some water. Like the wicked witch of the west.

[Vinca]

76. Looks like a shingles rash. Hope it hurts like hell.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

79. 'Whoa - this is new': Trump's visible rash prompts new health concerns

trump is NOT well

'Whoa – this is new': Trump's visible rash prompts new health concerns

www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

— (@osagecomesbackhome.bsky.social) 2026-03-02T18:30:56.737Z

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-rash-new-concern

President Donald Trump appeared in public Monday morning with a significant rash on his neck.

The 79-year-old president awarded the Medal of Honor at the White House to Vietnam veteran Terry P. Richardson, who is credited with saving the lives of 85 soldiers during a 1968 battle, and journalist Aaron Rupar noted that photos showed a heavy rash on the right side of Trump's neck at the event.

"Whoa -- this is new," Rupar posted, showing a photo credited to Getty photographer Saul Loeb. "Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today in addition to his disfigured hand."

Trump has frequently been seen in public, including the medal award event, with makeup covering the back of his right hand to cover what appears to be injuries from IV injections, and the photo of his rash raised new concerns about his health.

Link to tweet

......"My dad was doubling, possibly tripling up, his blood thinners at one point," posted Bluesky user Nicole. "Parts of his skin would just tear and bleed because of this. If his collar is rubbing up against his neck, the friction could cause this. Wasn't there something about him taking way too much aspirin?"

Link to tweet

[Traildogbob]

80. Unprotected sex

With the NeckJina.

[xuplate]

83. Looks like psorias

[Blue Owl]

84. Would be a real tragedy if his head just rotted right off on live TV

A real tragedy.

[CrystalwolfLady]

85. Rash or irritation? &

square patch of skin?
Wonder what it is? Any Dr.s care to weigh in? Prob why he is hiding at MAL.

[C Moon]

86. ...he must have gone over the hill. :O

[3825-87867]

88. Paging Dr. Ronnie...

I'm sure some suggestion from RFK, Jackass will clear it right up.

or maybe..
(very) RAW MILK
or..
believe it or don't...
some symptoms of HIV !

[SergeStorms]

89. Skin is an organ.

The largest organ in the human body. I'd be amazed if tRump knows that. He's never taken care of his skin, always putting metric tonnes of cosmetics, dyes, and heaven knows what else on it and in it.
In advanced age your skin loses it's elasticity and becomes drier, bruises more easily (internal bleeding!) and skin cancer from lifetime exposure from the sun becomes more prevalent.
With any sort of luck, and a shitload of bad Karma coming to collect, he has malignant Melanoma. It's relatively slow and painful, in which practically everyone on the planet would rejoice. 😁

Of course he has the best medical attention on the planet available to him, but cancer doesn't give a shit. It's a non-political, non-denominational, non-shit-giving disease, and I hope it's chosen him as fuel for its' inevitable victory over one of the greatest evils of our time.

But please, get well soon, Don.

[llmart]

90. I'm not a doctor but...

that's more than just a "rash".

[Escape]

91. Look like Epstein/Scar Syndrome...

can be a real pain in the neck...

[jmowreader]

93. Looks like he reacted to something

Trump colors his hair, he has for years. Is it possible his hairdresser changed to a brand of dye he's allergic to?

What's surprising isn't that he has an injury like this, but that they didn't just put makeup on it to hide it from us.

[GopherGal]

116. Well, the orange facial makeup may have stained his shirt collars...

requiring strong chemicals to remove the stains from his shirt collars.

He could be having a reaction to whatever exotic and strong chemical was necessary to remove the makeup stains from his shirt-collars.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

95. They put out a "statement" from the White House doctor that smells

This statement was not written by Dr. Barbabella

Link to tweet

The hint that this statement might not have actually been written by Dr Barbabella is that in it, he says that the medication was “prescribed by the White House Doctor”. He’s the WH Doctor.

[highplainsdem]

98. Thanks! Nothing about what type of skin problem is being treated, though?

[Emrys]

104. See my reply below (and all over GD ...)

Here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21063553

[highplainsdem]

108. Thanks, Emrys!

[Emrys]

110. You're welcome

It would explain the doctor's comment about Trump using a commonly available cream. Maybe he's telling he truth for once.

A week seems like a shorter course of treatment than I've heard about for these conditions, though, and it looks to be a sizeable patch compared to those my pal had. Right on the collar line too, which may be a bit sore, poor baby.

I'm going to go elsewhere for a while now, as I'm getting deja vu from copying the same reply to these many OPs hither and yon!

[highplainsdem]

111. Sympathies on that feeling of deja vu working to add important info to multiple DU threads.

Really appreciate your help here.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

97. The rash-like injury was also visible last Friday when Trump traveled to Texas

Link to tweet

[ornotna]

99. It's a Manitou

He’s effed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manitou

[C_U_L8R]

101. It's peeking !

[PXR-5]

102. The ear looks fine... nt

[Emrys]

103. See my possible explanation in reply to another OP

Here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21063465

I'll repeat it in case folks can't be bothered to click through:

He may be being treated for a pre-cancerous skin condition

Pre-cancerous actinic keratoses and superficial basal cell carcinomas can be treated with a shortish course of topical creams such as Fluorouracil, usually over 2-4 weeks.

A pal of mine has had thin hair for many years and spent a lot of time outdoors with no hat on, and developed pre-cancerous lesions on his scalp a couple of years ago.

When I saw him after we hadn't met for a while and he'd started the treatment, he looked quite a mess - it temporarily leads to the sort of angry-looking crusty skin patches shown in photos of Trump I've seen. My pal's skin healed just fine. If this is what's going on, Trump's patch seems much more widespread than my pal's were.

The neck area would see a lot of sun over the years, especially when golfing, and the sorts of headgear he's fond of wouldn't have protected that area. I doubt he's been in the habit of using sunscreen (barring the makeup he plasters on in his later years) judging by the state of the rest of his skin.

[GusBob]

118. Yeah folks are saying shingles

And it does look like zoster
But if ‘the White House Dr’ is telling the truth, herpes zoster is treated with oral antivirals?

So, if it’s cancer, question is squamous cell or basil cell?

[Emrys]

120. Not a doctor, but my money would be on basal cell carcinoma, probably superficial at this stage, not shingles

If they've caught it early enough to treat with a cream (which would very much lead to the appearance in the photos), the prognosis would usually be favourable (much to widespread disappointment) and it's not a big deal. But it could crop up in other areas that have been exposed to the sun.

[Kid Berwyn]

109. Sad. Hand hole no longer works.

So they drilled his neck now. Next comes the fleshtone paste.

[Bluetus]

115. But the plastic surgeons did a great job reconstructing that ear that was blown off.