Donald Trump and his administration have always been hell bent on proving that despite his age, the President is doing great, health-wise. Therefore, when press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed on July 17, 2025 that Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, the news and its timing came as a surprise.
While the disease in itself is not an extremely scary one and is often seen in elderly patients, the fact that Trump has it indicates that his health is perhaps in decline. However, since the revelation of the news, Trump’s critics have been critical of the timing as a number of them believe that the President was well aware of his condition long before the news was made public.
Regarding the same, one user on X posted, “Swollen legs is Stage 3 of Chronic Venous Insufficiency so there’s no way Trump and his doctors didn’t know about this condition for a long time. We’ve been blatantly lied to for years about his symptoms like his bruising.”
Moreover, given the current state of America and given the number of crises that the country is now going through, there are also speculations of Trump trying to divert the people and media’s attention to something like his health so the news about the more concerning situations take a back seat.
This speculation makes even more sense because Trump has always been fiercely protective regarding his health news and always maintained that he is in great shape. Despite showing concerning signs of age before, he never came forward with any information and even his health record that was released from the White House seemed a little too perfect to be true.
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Therefore, the fact that he would now choose to announce the condition chronic venous insufficiency has naturally raised the eyebrows of netizens as they are speculating if this is just another tactic of Trump to divert the attention.
With the pressure of the Epstein case mounting up, one user pointed at that and posted on X, “Given his legs are already swollen, he’s clearly known for a while. Now they need a new distraction… so they finally went with a bit of truth, just not about Epstein.”
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Another user posted on the same platform, saying. “Trump NEVER releases medical information so of course it’s manna to the press/msm. The timing and ‘generosity to inform’ of the announcement is NO coincidence. Networks are so predictable.”
It should also be noted here that Trump’s niece, Mary Trump has also repeatedly commented on the President’s alleged decline of mental health. With netizens being skeptical of the timing of the revelation of Trump’s illness, it now remains to be seen if any further update comes regarding the same.
