Posted on 09/01/2025 10:18:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like a magician’s greatest trick, sometimes the most dramatic illusions happen when the audience desperately wants to believe. This weekend, the left-wing corners of social media convinced themselves they were witnessing the ultimate disappearing act.
The frenzy started innocently enough. President Trump hadn’t made a public appearance for two days—a lifetime in the age of 24-hour news cycles. By Friday morning, Reddit threads were buzzing with speculation. Twitter’s algorithm caught the scent of blood in the water, and suddenly #WhereIsTrump was trending nationwide.
The Pentagon’s pizza tracker—that peculiar barometer of government crisis—showed an unusual spike in deliveries. Even The Simpsons creator Matt Groening had eerily joked at Comic-Con about Trump dying, sending conspiracy theorists into overdrive. (Because apparently, we’re now taking our political intelligence from cartoon creators.)
The speculation reached fever pitch when Vice President JD Vance made an awkwardly-timed statement to USA Today about being ready to serve “if, God forbid, there’s a terrible tragedy.” His attempt to quash rumors only poured gasoline on the fire. Meanwhile, liberal influencers who had spent four years insisting Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack” suddenly became amateur medical examiners, analyzing weeks-old photos of Trump’s bruised hand with the dedication of forensic scientists.
By Saturday morning, the situation had spiraled completely out of control. Over 158,000 posts declaring “TRUMP IS DEAD” flooded X, formerly Twitter. Another 42,000 confidently stated “TRUMP DIED.” Ben Meiselas of MeidasTouch breathlessly asked his followers, “Where did Trump go?! Where is he? What is happening?” The “Republicans against Trump” account, never missing an opportunity for dramatics, demanded to know “Who’s running the country?” The same people who’ve been running it while Trump maintains one of the most aggressive public schedules in presidential history, perhaps?
From Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese on X:The anticlimactic truth? Trump was photographed Friday morning loading into his motorcade with granddaughter Kai, heading to his Virginia golf course. He’d posted on Truth Social about tariffs Friday evening. The man who liberal conspiracy theorists had already buried was simply taking a brief respite from his typically packed schedule—something his predecessor did regularly from his Delaware basement, though curiously without similar concern from these same watchdogs.
I wake up to see people freaking out that Trump’s sick or dead or something because he hasn’t been seen in a few days. I was with the president yesterday afternoon. I interviewed him for an hour.
BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh observed the delicious irony: “Last year, some right-wing users on X convinced themselves that President Biden had died and the White House was keeping it quiet. The exact same thing is now happening with some left-wing influencers on X.” The difference? Let me spell it out: conservatives had years of Biden stumbling through speeches and getting lost on stage. The left had… what, exactly? Two days without a Trump sighting.
Look, I’ve watched politics for years, and this episode reveals something profound about Trump’s opposition. They’ve become everything they claimed to despise conspiracy theorists, rumor-mongers, and wishful thinkers so desperate for Trump to exit the stage that they’ll manifest his demise from thin air. After spending Biden’s entire presidency gaslighting Americans about his mental acuity—right up until his disastrous debate performance made denial impossible—they now scrutinize every Trump absence like Victorian spiritualists reading tea leaves.
The most telling aspect isn’t their hysteria; it’s their disappointment. One X user perfectly captured the mood: “I had already opened the champagne. Now I can’t get the cork back in the bottle.” They’re not just spreading false rumors—they’re actively hoping for them to be true.
Perhaps political scientist Ian Bremmer said it best: this says far more about “the state of mistrust in information and institutions” than it does about presidential health. When your political opposition becomes so unhinged that a president taking two days out of the spotlight triggers mass delusion, you’re not witnessing journalism or civic concern. You’re watching a collective nervous breakdown in real-time, performed by people who’ve confused their Twitter feeds with reality.
And honestly? It’s both hilarious and terrifying.
And now with social media we have the morons on parade in groups.
Just to troll them again he should disappear for a week. Continue running things incognito and once it becomes MSM critical mass reappear.
“They’ve become everything they claimed to despise conspiracy theorists...”
You become that which you most fear.
The puppeteer really knows how to pull the strings in the puppets...
Classic Trump...
Love it...
Victorian spiritualists indeed.
Bessent just said that Trump does not work 24/7 but he does work 21/7 and that Bessent only gets 3 hours of sleep because he wakes up in anticipation of Trump's 4:00 AM call.
I don't care that Bessent is gay because he is the best Sec Treas that I have ever seen.
He is one of the smartest persons that I have seen in the Cabinet...EVER.
He shared why he was so rich, he invested against the advice of the FED for his entire career, and won 85% of the time.
If you just listen to Bessent, no matter the subject, and are not impressed, you are dumber than AOC.
No pics or links at this dude’s blog? Why post it here?
There was a report that the ‘Trump is dead’ claim first made the rounds on Arabic jihadi social media.
Why would they celebrate this? Trump is doing great things in America. What do they despise so? Biden’s term was a s**t show that allowed the freaks to run amok. Maybe that’s what they want. Too bad.
Doppelganger? (I love that word!) /s
Trump, start wearing Groucho glasses with the mustache. Freak them out.
“Vance made an awkwardly-timed statement to USA Today about being ready to serve “if, God forbid, there’s a terrible tragedy.” “
Why would Vance make that statement under any circumstance? Does anyone think that he would ever say, under any circumstance, he was not ready?
Trump plays a great round for a dead guy.
Rumors = Propaganda
The MSM and gossip queens can’t make a profit without it.
National Enquirer applauds
“200,000 Social Media Posts”
Tells me that too many people put too much stock in Social Media Posts. Giving ordinary folk the ability to broadcast their thoughts to the world was a stupid idea.
FTA-—— liberals who had spent four years insisting “Not-Quite-There
Joe Biden” was “sharp as a tack” suddenly became amateur “medical examiners.”
They analyzed “weeks-old photos” of Trump’s bruised hand
with the fervent dedication of forensic scientists......
“The report of my death was an exaggeration”
Two hundred thousand dumbocrats revelling in the news. Only to be, yet again, disappointed.
RE: Only to be, yet again, disappointed.
Don’t give the Thomas Crooks among them any more ideas.
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