Donald Trump Photo Without Ear Bandage Raises Eyebrows

I am even more convinced now than ever that the conspiracy theory I have been trying to start is true, they are covering up that he was shot in one ear and it went out the other without doing any damage whatsoever.

If you don't hear from me in 24 hours, they got to me, man, the MIB got to me

Pretty sure that could be true, as there's empty space between his ears
- Chances are the bullet is still in there, as its basically a vacuum.

Trump's doctor, Ronnie Jackson, said the bullet "produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear." We are expected to believe that a 78 year old man completely healed a 2 cm (3/4 inch) wide ear wound, that went down to the cartilage, in less than two weeks.

These guys are lying through their teeth, again.

I wouldn't be surprised if in that statement he also added, "trump is in the best shape of his life, has 2% body fat, and will live to be 132." Because we all know that doctor just loves lying out of his ass. Does he even still have his license to practice medicine considering he is a fraud?
Must be another example of Trump's good genes! The best, big huge beautiful genes!
- More proof he's the antichrist
- Behold, the Übermensch!
It’s in honor of Deadpool & Wolverine being released on Friday. Mutant healing ability pride weekend.
Two centimeters long by how wide? Zero? And maybe .1 deep? Like a papercut? Something like that could possibly get stitched or glued together in the allowed time. But it would definitely be shrapnel in that case, or his own fingernail. Like, if he felt a bullet go past, realized and ducked, then felt foolish and decided it would be better publicity with a wound instead of the focus being on him crouching for cover. I won't say cowering because it's an appropriate response to being shot at, but he would think it.
My heart goes out to the 3 very real victims, whose only crime was being idiot enough to be at a Trump rally. I hope the Trump campaign will put some money towards their medical bills (she said knowing they won't).
- or his own fingernail
  Quite a stretch to imply Trump would ever do anything to intentionally cause himself pain
Skmdndjjddd

He obviously milked it to the maximum. That ear bandage he was walking around with, was obviously a PR thing too. It did never look like a medical professional was anywhere near that.

Looked like a cocktail napkin.
- Maxi pad
- I thought it looked like he passed on on a pile of snacks and a desiccant pack got stuck to his ear. All it needed was a label reading "Do Not Eat".
Look, I hate the guy, but that is how you bandage an ear.
People got shot so that parts real.
He could have been nicked or he could have caught it on a sharp point bending down or he could have cut it with a fingernail.
My money is on the fingernail. He's probably on blood thinners. He's probably got thin, brittle skin. He probably clawed at his ear when the bullet whizzed by.
He could easily have nicked it. A nick can bleed like crazy and also heal very fast.
From there it's all spin...
The simplest explanation is probably this given how fast it healed, I guess.
- that is how you bandage an ear.
  No. Its not.
  Source: many years as a nurse, several in emergency care.
  I don't doubt, that he was grazed by a bullet or a shrapnel. I'm just saying he milked it and that bandage was not professional.

In case it gets taken down completely:

There have been re-creations on YouTube with ballistics gel and pig ears showing what happens to an ear shot by an AR-15 round, I'm not going to lay judgement, just watch the video:

Ballistics gel (language):

https://youtu.be/FsvJzfXZI18#t=6m59s

Pig ears:

https://youtu.be/zfATfPIpDc4#t=4m19s

I'll lay a little judgement. Shooting through a flat piece of tissue would give wounds similar to what was shown in the video. The difference between an ear on a human head that is facing you flat on and an ear attached to cardboard at a shooting range facing you flat on is that one of them has a head behind it. A hit is still possible, but it likely would have looked different from what they showed.
Obviously, whatever hit Trump's ear, it was going more or less from one side of his ear to the other (front to back, or vice versa), otherwise it would have hit his head and we'd have a much more significant wound to discuss.

FBI Chief Wray was very careful saying that "Bullet or Shrapnel that Hit Trump's Ear", leaving things ambiguous. It set off some discussion online last week, with people wondering why he didn't just say "The bullet that hit Trump's Ear".

I guess FBI Chief knew something was up already and was already hedging his bets. Well, I'd expect intelligence to... well... know things before everyone else.

Obviously Trump was bleeding from his ear. Something absolutely hit it. But if its healed this well by now, it probably wasn't an AR-15 round.

Very interesting. I don't think Trump can just leave that thing bandaged up for the next few months, everyone knows he's gotta take the bandage off permanently eventually. The truth will come out.

Old people bleed extremely easily. I wouldn't be surprised if he caught/scratched his ear on the way down.
- The footage has Trump grab his ear midspeech, look around and get down immediately.
  Something hit Trump's ear. Its so weird that the Trump team thought it'd be best to pretend it was a bullet this whole time, surely they would have seen the wound and would have known?
  Any doctor who saw the ear afterwards would have been able to say Bullet vs Glass vs whatever based on what they saw. If this whole "bullet to the ear" thing ends up being a massive lie created by Trump's team, that speaks poorly of this upcomming election. Especially if it becomes representative of Trump's lying and how much he makes his followers look like a fool.
  If it ends up to be a true bullet-to-the-ear scenario, then whatever. Kamala looks like she was on her way to gaining momentum for the near future anyway and she has much better chances than I ever expected. (She's not winning in the polls yet, but her energy is palpable. I can believe that she can turn this around between now and November, even without relying upon this weird ear thing going on...)

He fucked up, or his doctors are miracle workers.

I'mma roll with #45 effed up. Forgot his fake bandage, and nobody bothered to remind him.
He's just a terrific healer. Like a more orange Wolverine.
They reconstructed the ear using part of his ball sack....the entire part.

I swear I read a chunk was supposedly missing from his ear.

Yeah, a lie promoted by his campaign and his doctor who doesn't have a fucking medical license.
https://www.theonion.com/terrified-don-jr-awakens-in-ice-filled-tub-missing-ear-1851592850
- Lmao
I don't remember reading that; what article said that?
Sincerely,
Not a Trumper
- Trump's doctor, Ronnie Jackson, said it in an interview. He also said the bullet "produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear.
  Obviously from the current state of Trump's ear, he's full of shit.
- Trump's Doctor said a bunch of things.
  I 100% believe that those articles existed (largely echoing Trump's doctor), even if I didn't see them personally. Different segments of the press assign different amounts of reliability to different political figures. It seems like the Democrats / Leftist print is to the advantage here compared to the Right who published the articles about the exaggerated claims of Trump's Doctor.
- I guess there is this? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112820414450748116

Doesn't matter to his base. The fact that he was shot at makes him a martyr in their eyes (he was always their chosen one).

Just make sure we vote in numbers that can't be ignored. 🔵 🔵 🔵

Oh no. This matters to his base because we can embarrass them with this picture moving forward.
They truly believe that Trump was hit by the bullet, and is missing a piece of his ear because of it.
- They won't get embarrassed. They were diapers, so they are like him...
- I mean, they won't ever believe it. No matter what kind of irrefutable evidence comes out, they'll all still believe he was shot in the ear. There could be slow motion camera footage of the perfect angle to see the shrapnel/glass graze his ear in a super clear picture perfect image and they'd still deny that he wasn't shot in the ear.
I don't think anyone really cares because everyone stopped talking about it outside of stuff like this almost immediately.

Good bot

Pete Souze disabled his account because of comments by the MAGA crowd.

https://petapixel.com/2024/07/29/photographer-pete-souza-deletes-x-account-after-controversial-trump-post/

“I re-posted a screenshot of New York Times photographer Doug Mills’ Twitter post of the same situation of Trump boarding his plane, which included the date and time of his photo. Doug is one of Trump’s favorite photographers and Trump has publicly called him ‘my genius photographer.’ So I thought the maga world would at least believe Doug Mills.”
“They didn’t. The comments turned ugly. Mostly about me, but also some that disparaged Doug Mills,” Souza continues.
“So I de-activated my Twitter account. It was a gut decision, made only by me. I am still not sure if this is a temporary or a permanent action,” Souza continues.

Couldn't the image have simply been flipped along the vertical axis?

It could have, yes. Would an AP photographer and or Pete Souza do that? Very highly unlikely. He also combs his hair that way.
You could also ask,
Couldn't the picture have simply been made with ai?
The answer to both questions is the same.
- But if I'm just asking questions and am a fragile snowflake, I can simply ignore any answers and continue asking questions.
His hairstyle isn’t symmetrical though. It has a side-part on the opposite side of his injured ear. So unless he suddenly decided to change the part of his hair (which, when you consider how involved it actually is because it’s a massive combover) it’s unlikely to be a flipped image.
In short: Because we can’t see his hair part in this image, we know it’s likely not flipped.

Same vibe

"Listen. I just have the best body. My ear did all the healing and it did it so good. The doctors can't believe it, they say no human has ever healed this fast before."

Is it possible he was splashed with blood from one of the other victims?

The more plausible explanation is that he was grazed by a piece of shrapnel.
He put that stupid big bandage on for theatrics.
- There's not even a nick in that photo.
  Who's to say it wasn't an SS agent that got hit with the shrapnel?

Jesus healed it. Praise be!

It raises eyebrows because the suspicion that he’s part Ferengi is confirmed

A cast out then. Even Ferengi have rules and standards.
- Ferengi like casinos that don't go bankrupt.
- There’s no way a ferengi would bankrupt a casino.

Noted liar lies. News at 11.

Mirrored or old image?

The photo was taken by an AP reporter. That's about as credible a source as you're going to get.
Not mirrored, the hair pomp folds over to his right, opposite of his left part.
- Damn nice forensics. I was about to suggest it might be mirrored as some phones do that automatically. I wonder what they're gonna say now and if he's gonna go back to wearing that bandage.

Prosthetic makeup is a thing. In that photo, he does not look like he was painted with an orange marker by a three-year-old. The news here is that he got a new makeup team.

What kind of doctor would allow prosthetic makeup on an open head wound? That’s asking for an infection and I don’t think a makeup artist would even agree to do it.