President Donald Trump’s swollen ankles have made an appearance for the first time in weeks during his high-stakes summit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, prompting renewed questions about his health.
After greeting Putin in Alaska on Friday and giving him the red carpet treatment, the two leaders sat down for their first face-to-face meeting in years, as the American president sought to find an end to the war in Ukraine.
But photos taken at the summit showed Trump’s ankles looking somewhat enlarged again, weeks after the White House revealed he had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency.
CVI is a common condition in people over the age of 70, in which the veins of a person’s body have trouble returning blood to the heart.
While the condition isn’t life-threatening,