Donald Trump's health has again been thrust under scrutiny in Washington, D.C., after new close-up photos of 13 January showed the 80-year-old president with heavy bruising and apparent skin-tone makeup on his left hand during an Oval Office signing ceremony, contradicting earlier White House defence, forcing officials into a fresh damage control exercise.
The concerns about Trump's physical condition have been simmering throughout his second term. Trump, who turned 80 on 14 June and is one of the oldest presidents in US history, has long presented himself as a picture of vigour. Yet the visual record has increasingly told a different story.