The End of Donald Trump and the Unavoidable Rise of JD Vance

The hands that once ruled an empire were mottled purple when Queen Elizabeth II performed her final official act. Two days later, she was dead.

In the marble corridors of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where the medical secrets of American presidents are whispered in sterile confidence, an uncomfortable truth shadows Trump's second term. The man who once boasted about his "perfect" health and "good genes" now bears the unmistakable marks of time—bruised hands that echo those final images of Britain's longest-serving monarch. The photographs are hard to ignore: swollen ankles peeking from beneath presidential trousers, mysterious bruises on hands that appear suspiciously covered with makeup, the subtle but unmistakable signs of a body in decline. In July 2025, the White House made a rare admission, revealing that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency—a circulation condition "common in individuals over the age of 70." It was a moment of unusual candor from an administration that typically treats medical transparency like classified intelligence.

But this official acknowledgment represents mere…