Trump says he takes more aspirin than recommended by his doctors

[dalton99a]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-takes-aspirin-recommended-doctors-rcna251804

Trump says he takes more aspirin than recommended by his doctors
The president told The Wall Street Journal that his daily use of aspirin contributed to the often-visible bruises on his hands.
Jan. 1, 2026, 11:48 AM CST
By Jonathan Allen

President Donald Trump pushed back on critics who have questioned the state of his health, telling The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that he denies falling asleep in meetings and takes a higher dose of aspirin than recommended by his doctors.

“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump told the Journal, attributing often-visible bruises on his hands — and the makeup he uses to try to cover them — to the medication. “I take the larger one, but I’ve done it for years, and what it does do is it causes bruising.”

Trump’s physician, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, told the Journal in a statement that the president takes 325 milligrams of aspirin a day for “cardiac prevention.”

Aspirin acts as an anticoagulant, meant to help prevent blood clots from forming. Blood clots that travel to the heart can lead to heart attacks. The medication can also increase a person’s risk of bleeding because it prevents clots from forming in wounds.

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To be on the safe side, he should increase the dosage of all his meds by 1000%

[Jim__]

1. Oh, so it's not actually caused by shaking a lot of hands?

Was Karoline lying to us?

[malaise]

2. Doctors will knock this shit down in minutes

He was identified as the dumbest student ever -by his professor.
Just effin croak.

[dalton99a]

3. But he knows more about medicine than the doctors

[malaise]

4. He knows more than anyone about anything without ever

Researching the subject.
The naked emperor has long confused omnipotent with impotent😀
Wishing you and yours a healthy and happy 2026.

[dalton99a]

5. +1. Same to you malaise!

[Marcuse]

45. He lies when he says he knows more than anybody about a given subject and also when he says he knows nothing about it.

[Irish_Dem]

8. He insists we follow his medical advice.

Hopefully his own treatment plan will go sideways soon.

[Clouds Passing]

40. He's the bestiest knower of medicine

[BaronChocula]

42. Yeah, he knows more than my doctor

who never even warned me about "thick blood pouring through my heart." From now on I'm only taking medical advice from this pedophile.

[Aristus]

38. Physician Assistant, not a doctor. But yeah. Keep popping that aspirin, shithead!

Whole handfuls of it. Give your self a subdural hematoma. Or a catastrophic colonic bleed.

If this seems like a breach of the Hippocratic oath, bear in mind that when he dies, the health of the entire nation will improve immeasurably. I'm just trying to help cure the disease that ails us...

[malaise]

39. Let him chug them down

Happy New Year to you and yours

[Aristus]

41. And to you!

[BaronChocula]

43. All you magas, now take handfulls of aspirin daily

Simple Simon says.

[Xavier Breath]

6. Extra aspirin and a daily flume of Diet Coke sure sounds like a recipe for a happy tummy.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. The Diet Coke guy

who has enabled SNAP in some states to stop paying for Diet Coke? That guy?

[Xavier Breath]

12. A policy penny wise and (literally) pound foolish.

[surfered]

9. Hopefully, increasing the chances of Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke,

If God is merciful.

[dalton99a]

11. Someone must have told him that hemorrhagic is better than ischemic

[surfered]

13. That it's classier😁

[hatrack]

17. It's referred to as a "Code Gold", making it the obvious choice . . .

[LuckyCharms]

10. One wonders why aspirin (an anti-platelet, not an anti-coagulant)

is being downed by him, hopefully by the bottle, when there are more effective medications available to the person with the best healthcare in the world.

Even though aspirin can act as an anti-coagulant as well, there's other modern drugs that are probably safer and easier on the gut. I don't think large doses of aspirin are typically used (except in smaller doses, or acute situations like post-surgical clot prevention) for long term clot prevention, but I'm not a doctor. My point is, he's likely on modern blood thinners, like many of us are. Just come out and say it, you fucking liar. Is he trying to minimize that fact by saying that he's taking aspirin because he doesn't like thick blood in his heart?

Now go "shake some more hands" to get the bruises, like your spokeswoman said you got them. Fucking idiot.

[dsc]

14. There are a multitude of blood thinners

My dad was on one for decades (coumadin) and I have been on one for past several years (brillinta). I take 81 mg of aspirin each day. I can't imagine he isn't on a real blood thinner along with taking that aspirin which seems rather dangerous.

[LuckyCharms]

15. Agree. I'm on Brilinta and a baby aspirin after a piece of plaque lodged in my eye.

I was also on Xarelto for an ischemic stroke, but was told to discontinue it after a retinal bleed.

Good luck with the Brilinta! I don't bleed from cuts too badly anymore, but when I was on the Xarelto as well? Oh boy...

[dsc]

28. yeah my blood runs very fast

I finally got an alum stick for shaving. I don't cut myself all that often but when I do it would take hours to stop bleeding without the alum stick.

[LuckyCharms]

29. I understand. I stopped shaving. Except...

for about once a month when I just shave the whole beard off and regrow it.

Even then...I pray while shaving.

Like you, HOURS to stop the bleeding.

[Prairie_Seagull]

33. I don't shave in the traditional sense.

For the same reasons that have been outlined. On anti platelet meds and a 80mg asperinI use my beard trimmer without the attachment that defines the length of beard you want. In essence it is small hair trimmer. I get pretty close 'shave' this way without the chance of a cut.

[LuckyCharms]

34. I sometimes do something similar as well...

Sometimes I'll put a 1/16 inch guard on the hair clippers and buzz it down low.

Sometimes I'll do a complete shave if I'm feeling daring.

[GoCubsGo]

19. Yeah, I also think he's just full of shit.

I would not be surprised if he's actually taking some other drug, and that he's being told that it's aspirin, because he's too stupid and/or addled to understand that it's some other drug.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance

trump is not following his doctor's advice

Link to tweet

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[dalton99a]

24. +1. He should eat more beef because the price of beef has come down tremendously

[malaise]

25. He's a blinking

LIAR

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Here is a gift link to the WSJ article

As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, the president says he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging
...because Dear Leader Donny knows better than medical professionals
🙄
(should work as a gift link)
www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...

— AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 (@callyson.bsky.social) 2026-01-01T16:25:15.716Z

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/as-signs-of-aging-emerge-trump-responds-with-defiance-769c5dcd?st=AAvnoj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

WASHINGTON—President Trump is taking more aspirin than his doctors recommend. He briefly tried wearing compression socks for his swelling ankles, but stopped because he didn’t like them. And he regrets undergoing advanced imaging because it generated scrutiny of his health.

“In retrospect, it’s too bad I took it because it gave them a little ammunition,” Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on his decision to get a cardiovascular and abdominal scan in October. “I would have been a lot better off if they didn’t, because the fact that I took it said, ‘Oh gee, is something wrong?’ Well, nothing’s wrong.”.....

Trump gets little sleep and has recently struggled to keep his eyes open during several televised events in the West Wing. Aides, donors and friends say they often have to speak loudly in meetings with the president because he strains to hear. Aside from golf, Trump doesn’t get regular exercise, and he is known to consume a diet heavy on salty and fatty foods, such as hamburgers and french fries.

The large dose of aspirin he chooses to take daily has caused him to bruise easily, he said, and he has been encouraged by his doctors to take a lower dose. But Trump has declined to switch because he has been taking it for 25 years. “I’m a little superstitious,” he said in the interview......

Trump denied that he struggles to hear. He also denied falling asleep at recent White House events and said he has always gotten by on little sleep.

The president has sometimes described his medical care inaccurately. He has for weeks said that he underwent an MRI at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in October. When asked about the procedure by the Journal, Trump and his doctor said he got a different form of imaging: a CT scan.......

Of the incident in which Bondi caused his hand to bleed, Trump said, “The ring hit the back of my hand, and, yes, there was a slight little cut,” Trump said. The cut alarmed some who witnessed the exchange, according to a person with knowledge of the episode. It is one of several instances in which his hand has been cut, aides said.

Trump said he applies makeup to his hands after he gets “whacked again by someone.” He added: “I have makeup that’s, you know, easy to put on, takes about 10 seconds.”

[dalton99a]

30. +1

[MorbidButterflyTat]

51. OMG his neck gina!

[Totally Tunsie]

18. Hunny...those ain't aspirin you're snorting.

[mike_c]

20. I also take 325 mg of aspirin daily per my cardiologist...

...but I don't bruise like the mango shit-gibbon bruises. Been taking it for 15 years. Still waiting to bruise like an over-ripe banana or to nod off in meetings, lol.

[malaise]

23. Ding ding

It’s bullshit

[Baitball Blogger]

21. I wonder if he was taking this much aspirin when he had that near miss with his ear.

Just thinking, even a little nick would have caused a copious amount of blood.

[Kid Berwyn]

22. Thick blood didn't give him a thick head.

That was genetics.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. What is the medical level of aspirin toxicity?

Asking for a friend.

[dalton99a]

46. 10 to 30 grams

If your doctor prescribed aspirin for inflammation or arthritis, the typical level of aspirin is between 10 to 30 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood. Any concentration above 40 mg/dL can be toxic.

In adults, taking 10 to 30 grams of aspirin can be fatal. Children may be fatally poisoned by as little as 3 grams of aspirin.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content?contenttypeid=167&contentid=salicylate_blood

The lowest fatal aspirin dose reported in a patient older than 6 years of age was 13,000 mg in a 24-year-old man who died in 1918. He took the aspirin to relieve flu-like symptoms and died within 2 days after “a large quantity of blood was passed by the bowel.” There was no laboratory confirmation of the presence of salicylate in his body (Citation78). The next lowest fatal dose was 32,500 mg in a 30‐year-old patient (Citation58).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15563650600907140#d1e627

[no_hypocrisy]

53. Thanks! Hope breeds eternally.

[Henry203]

31. Take an entire bottle

That will thin your blood once and for all.

[Coldwater]

32. He's not taking enough

[Wounded Bear]

35. I assume he's on other blood thinners than aspirin...

given his age, physique, and dietary habits.

Doctors will often take patients off of the aspirin therapy if they're on other blood thinners, so he might not be supposed to take aspirin at all. Probably just saw one of those commercials and thought, 'That sounds easy, I'll claim I'm doing that."

[BlueKentuckyGirl]

36. Maybe he will have ....

a Hemorrhagic Stroke!

[hamsterjill]

37. Exactly! Who are we to argue.

If 325 milligrams per day is working, then hell, he needs to double it. You know how to get him to do that, right?

Obama takes 800 milligrams per day. Donald is a total aspirin weenie!!!!

[Bristlecone]

44. More bullshit.

The more excuses they/he makes, the more I am positive that he is very sick.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

47. The first law of Turnip-depravity: if he said it then it was a lie.

We have zero basis to believe any of what he said. In fact, we are far better off assuming it is a lie.

For one thing: he says he's been taking this dose of aspirin for years, but the bruising was really only first noticed in the spring of 2024. Something changed, but they will not tell us what--which is pretty telling in and of itself.

For another: he's used bandages on his right hand lately. You don't need bandages to cover a bruise that you claim can be covered with makeup in literally 10 seconds. Oh yeah, that was a high-five with Bondi...right? Sure.

The safe bet is that it is a lie. What is the truth? We may never know.

But come on black spot. You can do this!

[dalton99a]

48. +1

[LetMyPeopleVote]

49. trump's "skin is so delicate that Pam Bondi caused his hand to bleed when she nicked him with her ring

Link to tweet

[MorbidButterflyTat]

50. "...critics who have questioned the state of his health..."

"Critics"??

What a fucked up comment. Don't we Americans have the right to know what the hell is going on with Piggy?

Man, that pisses me off!

[Jack Valentino]

52. How much of it does he shove up his ass????

I wouldn't want Newsom to give him a headache.....

[CTyankee]

54. Take a whole bunch, shithead. Let's see what happens...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

55. Maddowblog-Amid health questions, Trump changes his story in weird and unexpected ways

“I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart,” the president said. “Does that make sense?” Actually, no.

Amid health questions, Trump changes his story in weird and unexpected ways - MS NOW

apple.news/ACCZHgso8Qfi...

— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2026-01-02T15:24:34.236Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/amid-health-questions-trump-changes-his-story-in-weird-and-unexpected-ways

While it’s possible that there was no cause for concern, Trump’s unfortunate record made it difficult to give him and his team the benefit of the doubt. It was against this backdrop that the president spoke to The Wall Street Journal about these questions, and his comments advanced the story in weird and unexpected ways. From the report:

President Trump is taking more aspirin than his doctors recommend. He briefly tried wearing compression socks for his swelling ankles, but stopped because he didn’t like them. And he regrets undergoing advanced imaging because it generated scrutiny of his health.

‘In retrospect, it’s too bad I took it because it gave them a little ammunition,’ Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on his decision to get a cardiovascular and abdominal scan in October.

Broadly speaking, there are a handful of key takeaways from the reporting and interview......

The president, the Journal went on to report, “has at times eschewed the advice of his doctors and scoffed at the medical community’s widely accepted health recommendations.” This is especially true when it comes to aspirin, which he chooses to take daily and which apparently causes him to bruise easily. In fact, the president acknowledged applying makeup to his hands to obscure discoloration.

“His skin is so delicate that Pam Bondi, now his attorney general, caused his hand to bleed when she nicked him with her ring while giving him a high-five at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,” the article noted......

Stepping back, the president’s comments were hardly out of character. Throughout his decadelong political career, Trump has repeatedly expressed his disdain for science and medical evidence on everything from the climate crisis to vaccines to Covid-19 treatments, so it stands to reason that Mr. Inject Disinfectants is going to prioritize his superstitions and baseless assumptions about “nice, thin blood” over the recommendations of those who know what they’re talking about.

The trouble is, this is the same president who believes he has the credibility and expertise needed to give the public guidance on, among other things, how much Tylenol to take and what child vaccination schedules should look like.

In other words, Trump’s comments to the Journal weren’t just important in their own right, they were also a timely reminder to the public that his judgment on matters related to health are better left ignored.