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Trump Photographed Playing Golf After False Death Rumors Generate 200,000 Social Media Posts
I Stand for Freedom ^ | 09/01/2025 | Noah Stanton

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:
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.
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.

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.


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1 posted on 09/01/2025 10:18:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Stupid people do as stupid people do.

And now with social media we have the morons on parade in groups.

2 posted on 09/01/2025 10:21:45 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just to troll them again he should disappear for a week. Continue running things incognito and once it becomes MSM critical mass reappear.


3 posted on 09/01/2025 10:24:15 AM PDT by xp38
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To: SeekAndFind

“They’ve become everything they claimed to despise conspiracy theorists...”

You become that which you most fear.


4 posted on 09/01/2025 10:31:04 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The puppeteer really knows how to pull the strings in the puppets...
Classic Trump...
Love it...


5 posted on 09/01/2025 10:31:35 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

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.

6 posted on 09/01/2025 10:31:55 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB TERRORIST SAVAGES)
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To: SeekAndFind

No pics or links at this dude’s blog? Why post it here?


7 posted on 09/01/2025 10:32:10 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind
Mark Twain Quotes On Death
8 posted on 09/01/2025 10:32:41 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall)
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To: SeekAndFind

There was a report that the ‘Trump is dead’ claim first made the rounds on Arabic jihadi social media.


9 posted on 09/01/2025 10:33:37 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


10 posted on 09/01/2025 10:40:16 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SeekAndFind

Doppelganger? (I love that word!) /s


11 posted on 09/01/2025 10:43:13 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump, start wearing Groucho glasses with the mustache. Freak them out.


12 posted on 09/01/2025 10:45:17 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: SeekAndFind

“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?


13 posted on 09/01/2025 10:58:51 AM PDT by odawg
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump plays a great round for a dead guy.


14 posted on 09/01/2025 11:05:59 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rumors = Propaganda

The MSM and gossip queens can’t make a profit without it.

National Enquirer applauds


15 posted on 09/01/2025 11:09:31 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

“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.


16 posted on 09/01/2025 11:21:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. )
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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......


LOL


17 posted on 09/01/2025 11:48:14 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: SeekAndFind

“The report of my death was an exaggeration”


18 posted on 09/01/2025 11:52:04 AM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: SeekAndFind

Two hundred thousand dumbocrats revelling in the news. Only to be, yet again, disappointed.


19 posted on 09/01/2025 2:40:14 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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RE: Only to be, yet again, disappointed.

Don’t give the Thomas Crooks among them any more ideas.


20 posted on 09/01/2025 3:30:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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