![]() ![]() Virtually all 71-year-old people have at least mild evidence of cataracts (and certainly they may be moderate or advanced) and thus many will have cataract development to a degree for which surgery is indicated.ġ7/ And while it's not entirely clear if Trump has had cataract surgery, some of the available images online are physically close and with high enough resolution to suggest this is the case.ġ8/ For several decades it's been considered at least a mild-to-moderate surgical complication to have a permanently dilated pupil (or partially/permanently/poorly reactive pupil) after cataract surgery. imRZIFIzYoġ5/ Are Donald Trump's Large Pupils a complication Cataract Surgery?ġ6/ Cataracts are an entirely normal aging process. Carlson is 23 years younger than Trump, thus all other things being equal, Carlson's pupils under equal light conditions should be larger – not equal, let alone smaller – than Trump's pupils. ERgqy5aKHeġ4/ Trump's pupils are approximately 5.0 mm in diameter while Carlson's are 3.0 mm. In the images immediately above and below, we see Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson during a 15 March 2017 interview. But certainly, this difference is much more noticeable in a 71-year-old.ġ1/ Donald Trump's pupils are very frequently larger (often much larger) than they should be for healthy eyes of his age.ġ2/ His pupils are sometimes as almost as large as they would be if they were medically dilated by an ophthalmologist (with eye drops, such as Tropicamide and Phenylephrine).ġ3/ As a control, we can compare Trump's pupils to those who have interviewed him, and are under the same light conditions. Thus an infant has much larger pupils than a 70-year-old.ġ0/ This change, generally speaking, isn't very noticeable (for most casual observers) until a person reaches their 30s or 40s – and even then it's not dramatic. We cannot medically test for these stimuli (response to a bright light or response to focusing at near) on Donald Trump by evaluating available video or photos – …Ĩ/ …however, at least with response to light, we can make some reasonable estimations.ĩ/ You also may not realize that, under equal lighting conditions, pupils will become smaller with age. However, you may not know that focusing on an object close up (e.g., when reading) will also cause pupils to constrict.ħ/ These physiologic findings are normal for all healthy eyes. Most people know that exposure to light causes the pupils to constrict. You probably haven't noticed, but President Trump's pupils are intermittently much larger than normal (the intermittent pattern is crucial).ĥ/ Trump's enlarged pupils are much less likely a sign of a significant undiagnosed or undisclosed medical condition – and much more likely, a side effect of a drug/medication (one of a relatively small group of drugs).Ħ/ Pupils react to both Light and Near Focusing – but also change with age I have not examined Donald Trump and I have no firsthand knowledge of him - however, the myriad of photographic evidence available online seems to point strongly to the remaining possible etiology - Donald Trump’s Intermittently Dilated Pupils are due to the side effects of drugs/medications.īrown also did a mega-thread on Twitter and systematically explains what’s going on:ġ/ Why are Donald Trump's pupils intermittently so large? This intermittent pattern is NOT due to trauma, complications from surgery, or disease. At other times they are within normal limits. ![]() The ambient light conditions cannot account for such changes. President Donald Trump’s pupils are intermittently and significantly dilated - from a medical standpoint, this is NOT normal.
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