These were actual media headlines yesterday. From the New York Post,
President Trump is alive and well after bizarre, false online speculation suggested he died.
The ultimate in fake news. And The Hill newspaper,
Trump dispels health rumors, hits golf course.
I had heard absolutely nothing about these “rumors” or “speculation” until yesterday when I started seeing headlines that they were already disproven.
Apparently, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a real disease and it can produce near terminal cases. As for the media, I get that August is traditionally a slow month, and the pre-holiday last week, the slowest. But if we need a subject to create fake news to generate clicks to keep up web traffic, why not Sydney Sweeney? It worked before.
Where did this all start? The Post reports,
Online rumors of President Trump’s demise were greatly exaggerated — much to the dismay of creepy leftist critics.
The president took a brief hiatus from public appearances this week, sparking morbid theories and social media posts speculating he had died.
But the haters had their hopes dashed Saturday morning when Trump appeared alive and well at the White House.
It’s a pre-holiday week. Congress is out of session. The Hill traces it back to Tuesday,
He was spotted at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., after his schedule was void of public events for several days in a row. The empty agenda set off a flurry of social media posts raising questions about the president’s health after a photograph of bruising on his hand during a White House Cabinet meeting went viral.
Trump personally presided over that Tuesday meeting, of which 3 hours and 17 minutes were live-streamed to the world. Critics complained about the long length of the meeting at the time. For example,
The Cabinet meeting would have been considered “wildly inefficient” at “just about any other workplace,” said The New York Times.
Too much Trump. Too little Trump. There is no pleasing some people.
The Post reports,
Suspicions that the president had died were stoked on Friday, when the White House released a blank schedule with no public events for the president during Labor Day weekend.
The schedule came four days after Trump’s last public appearance, during his Tuesday cabinet meeting.
The hiatus sparked the hashtags “#TrumpIsDead” and “#WhereIsTrump,” which trended on X throughout Friday night and into Saturday morning.
Once again, as a reminder, it’s Labor Day weekend. Thankfully, some Friday evening social activity and west coast Friday Night Baseball on TV (O’s v. Giants) allowed me to avoid that flavor of stupidity until Saturday afternoon. Perhaps I could recommend the same to left-wing social-media persons.
