47⬅ Donald Trump: Right Forearm Scar

Photographs in July 2022 showed a well-healed linear scar at least one inch long (probably closer to two) on Trump's right forearm SEE BELOW.

Comment: The cause is unknown. It is too wide to look like a surgical scar. Was it traumatic?

Appearing sometime between 2020 and 2022 (and best seen in 2026), the scar looks to be one to two inches long. It could be due to accidental trauma, but its linearity and its clean healing suggests a surgical scar. That raises the question: what type of surgery?

My initial thought centered on repairing a torn distal biceps tendon (which would fit with the amyloidosis hypothesis), but the scar is too distal, too lateral, and misoriented.

Correction of radial tunnel syndrome would leave a scar in approximately this location, but the usual surgical approach leaves a longitudinal scar, not a transverse scar. This would otherwise be an attractive hypothesis because radial tunnel syndrome would explain the difficulties shown in several videos from 2017-2020 when Trump attempted to raise a drinking glass to his lips.

If someone has a specific idea, I would like to hear it. But for now, excision of a skin cancer or some other skin lesion seems most likely, especially in light of his history of actinic keratosis MORE. It is interesting that the 2020 image below shows a large darkly pigmented lesion more distally on the right forearm not seen later.

2026 (Aug. 8)

Credit:Dennis Schneidler / Imagn Images
https://imagn.com/setImages/881590/preview/29543862

2020 and 2022

These images show the scar was absent in 2020 and present in 2022.

 

Credits:

• (Left) July 3, 2020: Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/president-donald-trump-returns-to-the-white-house-in-news-photo/1224573290
• (Right) July 28, 2022: Cliff Hawkins / Getty Images https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/former-u-s-president-donald-trump-looks-on-during-the-pro-news-photo/1411479328