Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said on Saturday evening that he’s made a “full recovery” after taking a nasty fall at his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, this past week.
“[Twenty] stitches later and a full recovery, I’m back home with [Gisele Letterman] and the kids,” the Democrat posted to X, captioning a photo of himself. “I’m overwhelmed + profoundly grateful for all the well-wishes. Truly.”
“Grateful for the [University of Pittsburgh Medical Center] for the incredible medical care that put me back together,” he added. “THANK YOU SO MUCH. See you back in DC.”
20 stitches later and a full recovery, I’m back home with @giselefetterman and the kids.
I’m overwhelmed + profoundly grateful for all the well-wishes.
Truly.
Grateful for @UPMC for the incredible medical care that put me back together.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
See you back in DC. pic.twitter.com/j81LXZGLBx
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) November 15, 2025
Fetterman’s team announced Thursday that the senator suffered a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” and subsequently fell as he was light-headed, The Daily Wire reported. He sustained minor injuries to his face, as Fetterman’s attached photo on Saturday showcased.
At the time, Fetterman quipped, “If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!”
Conservatives rallied around Fetterman when they heard of his fall, but the tone from leftists on X-alternative Bluesky was far different. As highlighted by The Daily Wire, leftists mocked Fetterman for falling and complained that he lived.
Just before his fall, Fetterman said on CNN airwaves that the most vicious attacks aimed at him have not come from conservatives, but rather those on the Left. The Democrat has strayed from his party on numerous occasions, like supporting the reopening of the government and giving nuanced takes on the Israel and Gaza conflict.
“I asked my digital team, I said, ‘We’re on all the platforms, you know, what’s kind of the harshest? What’s kind of the most personal?” Fetterman recalled. “And the answer was immediate. They said, ‘Oh, Bluesky. It’s Bluesky.’”
“And the difference is the Right would say really rough things and names, some names I won’t repeat on TV,” he continued. “But on the Left, it was like, they want me to die, or that, ‘We’re cheering for your next stroke’ or, that’s terrible that depression — ‘Why couldn’t the depression won?’ And, ‘I hope your kids find you.’”
“I remember one that they claimed, ‘Oh, the doctor let us down,’ and ‘Why did they have to save his life?’” Fetterman added. “I mean, just really — I just can’t imagine people are wishing, ‘I wish he dies,’ or ‘I want him to die,’ you know, literally cheering for a stroke. And I don’t know … the kind of a place where that comes from.”
“That’s much different from calling me a name,” he explained. “And that’s really been consistent in that community online.”
🚨NEW: John Fetterman *STUNS* CNN’s Dana Bash by telling her how Left crueler than Right🚨
FETTERMAN: “The Right would say really rough things and names … but on the Left, it was like they want me to die or that ‘We’re cheering for your next stroke’ … they even have a gif… pic.twitter.com/iMRyVTssgs
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 12, 2025
Virginia Kruta contributed to this report
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