Trump, who questioned his opponents’ health, rebuffs rumors about his own
“In this environment, people will seize everything that seems to confirm what they suspected, and this is obviously not an excellent situation to obtain specific information,” said Brendan Nyhan, professor of political science at the University of Dartmouth. “What we have seen illustrates the way everyone is vulnerable to online information and rumors.”
Speculations continued on Saturday morning when a photographer took a photo of Trump in a golf shirt, leaving the White House with a little child. Online, people have examined the photo to indicate that it may not be good.
The next day, Trump posted a photo of himself on Truth Social Golfing with the former NFL coach Jon Gruden, who resigned from Las Vegas raiders in 2021 after sending offensive emails, although Trump did not say when the photo with Gruden was taken. This aroused a new series of questions.
An assistant from the White House, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Trump had Golf with Gruden on Sunday.
Trump directly discussed his health on Truth Social Sunday, saying: “I have never felt better in my life.”
But on Monday, rumors swirled when images on X and elsewhere seemed to show someone throwing a trash bag through a white house window on the second floor, apparently in disagreement with the usual protocol. Videos have millions of views.
What happened is not clear. The White House assistant, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that an entrepreneur had thrown the bags during the regular maintenance in the White House while Trump was absent.
Asked about the images Tuesday, Trump said that the windows were sealed, which contradicts this explanation. He said video was probably a false “generated by AI”.
It was not the first time that the Internet has launched with comments on Trump’s health. In September 2020, Trump posted on social networks a denial that he had undergone “a series of mini -cuts” – without anyone having suggested that he had done so. And in October 2020, it was diagnosed with COVID-19 in a fear that seized the government two months before the deployment of vaccines. He spent three days at Walter Reed.
Inside the White House on Tuesday, the aids took note of the most recent buzz surrounding Trump’s health but did not seem to believe that it was a lot of things.
“Speculation invented online is crazy and baseless, and it is clearly pushed by democratic activists and madmen on the left,” said the white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “President Trump is perfectly good and has a huge amount of energy. He was completely transparent about his health with the public, unlike his predecessor, who made weeks not to mention the media and spent a third of his presidency to sleep on vacation.”
A spokesperson for Biden refused to comment.
The Kerfuffle seemed to calm down after the appearance of Trump on Tuesday, but the theories of the conspiracy on the Internet are often difficult to cancel. As the evening approaches, “#trumpdead” was again trendy on X.
