Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/19/is-trumps-oversized-bandage-a-coverup.html
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Well yes, of course it’s a coverup. Isn’t it obvious that he’s recently gone heavy on Tampax stonks?
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Kotex?
Although Johnson & Johnson marketed a disposable sanitary napkin in 1896, it met with limited acceptance. However, surgical dressings developed during the First World War spurred innovation in commercial sanitary napkin designs, including products by Sfag-Na-Kins and Kotex.
(I live not far from a Johnson & Johnson plant that apparently supplies roughly half of Europe with tampons. Sometimes the subject pops up in local history.)
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While I do beleive he was hit in the ear by the bullet, I don’t beleive the bandage needs to be that big. The shooting has been a gift to the Trump campaign, why not draw attention to the fact he was almost assasinated.
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If it’s that severe, he needs the Cone of Shame.
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I’m 50/50 on this. I suffered an ear injury recently, and I had to wear an enormous bandage (and a hat to cover it up) for a few days. Ears are weirdly shaped and it can be hard to get a decent surface area for adhesion.
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He has been wearing heavy coverup since I have been aware of him.
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The covering is to keep the Cheetos dust away from the wound.
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Sure. Some of need to be caffeinated to carry on with the rest of our day. A big ear bandage for show and he’s ass-inated (almost, two-letters short, right?) for his campaign. 
He wouldn’t be the only one turning himself into a bigger ass.
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The original close-up photo directly after the “hit” shows a shallow wound about the size of the width of a pinkie nail on the rim of the ear about 2/3 up from the lobe, the rest being blood trails. I’ve done worse to myself.
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Yep, it’s a cult. 
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Next step self flagellation…
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… his right ear was facing away from the teleprompters when it happened
What is so implausible about getting grazed across the ear by a bullet anyway?
What is the inconsistency that the glass-shard theory is meant to explain 
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If he really is getting some sort of boost amongst his cultists from this I think it’s obvious he should repeat the incident to get an even bigger boost. If a ear alone gets this kind of attention, I wonder what it would take to get a yuge rating boost? 
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Maybe the one between reality and Tromp’s effort to portray himself heroically. It’s a much greater story (in his followers’ eyes) if instead of dodging a shard of glass, he literally dodged a bullet.
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… he can’t really have been shot, because he’s a bad person and being shot would make him look good
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I think instead that the possibilty for some on the left is that revelations that it was actually a glass shard world deflate his claim of heroism.
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