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[NY Times] President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.

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  1. Os Trigonum

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    NY Times confirms

    President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.
    In the world of presidential health, distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump’s online assurance that he was fine was immediately explained away as part of a cover-up.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/politics/trump-health-bruise-conspiracies.html

    excerpt:

    President Trump had nothing on his public schedule for three days last week. He is often sporting a large, purple bruise on his right hand, which he sometimes slathers with makeup. His ankles are swollen. He is the oldest person to be elected president.

    For a swath of hyper-online Americans over the long Labor Day weekend, all of this was explanation enough: The president was either dead or about to be.

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    “There’s always been this wishful-thinking industry around Trump’s health and Trump’s legal woes,” said Mike Rothschild, a journalist and author who studies conspiracy movements. “There’s been this far-left influencer sphere that is constantly pumping up the idea that Trump is about to go to prison or the walls are closing in.”
    more at the link
     
  2. durvasa

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    Will reserve judgment until I hear what the NY Post has to say.
     
  3. Astrodome

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    Very far left. This wasn't even a topic on the leftist mainstream media. But of course many posters on clutchfans were all-in anticipating his demise. It really demonstrates that these posters are extreme.
     
  4. CCorn

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    Need a photo of him holding a newspaper and a bag of fast food to confirm.
     
  5. Deckard

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    The guy looks awful.

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  6. El_Conquistador

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    The liberals have to be incredibly red-faced at the moment. They just keep being proven wrong in every allegation against Trump! ... because when the liberals have nothing... they simply make something up. They lack any type of moral compass when it comes to anything related to Trump... as liberals falsely believe their outrage is righteous... when in reality, it's viewed as absurd and dishonest by rational people.


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  7. ThatBoyNick

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    I don’t understand the current political discourse in this sub, or just about anywhere anymore. I read so many posts that just leave me saying “wtf” or “who cares”. The focus, and angles people are taking most of the time just seem off, or bizarre.
     
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    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    Well, the liberals were engaged in a conspiracy theory fantasy about Trump's death. That's how low they have sunk -- from a character/moral/integrity perspective. Independent voters are looking at them and seeing a total freak show and psychological train wreck. Hard pass!


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  10. Os Trigonum

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    related

    What Is An Ethical Response To What The Democrats Have Become?

    https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/08/30/what-is-an-ethical-response-to-what-the-democrats-have-become/
     
  11. adoo

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    Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, Trump had spearheaded an effort to defame a sitting president was not US born

    what has been the ethical response to the convenient lie that Trump had propagated



    Trump had used the office of the presidency to advise people to inject cleaning solutions / disinfectants to fend off the COVID virus.

    What has been the ethical response to this willfully ignorant lie by POTUS Trump?
     
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    That’s actually not true and proof you make up a fantasy of how terrible we are in your head vs who we actually are in reality. You need us to be as terrible as possible to justify your support of a far right movement you know is “fascist to the core” (per gold star veteran John Kelly).

    The only poster here anticipating his demise with any glee was DD. There were plenty of us like myself that of course had comments to make about his health but there is nothing wrong with speculating. The throwing out of contents of the White House windows was a wild scene as well. We know the windows are supposed to be sealed shut so it was something serious if it was a real video which it appeared to be.

    On his health I’m on record here saying while I think there is obviously.a health issue at hand with the bruising on his hands and swollen ankles, I don’t see someone with late stage congestive heart failure given my experience with relatives that went through that.

    He could have CHF given the bruising pointing towards blood thinners but his ability to still hold ALOT of weight, his ability to walk around without looking winded, and his ability to speak for 3 hours points towards someone who isn’t in his last few weeks of CHF. With CHF it can go quick so he could go downhill quick but most of us rational “Libs” understand we should anticipate him living for some time. I see someone who could finish his term and I see no evidence that he’ll go even further than he did in 2021 to try and stay in power illegally and by force if he needs to.

    On his health there is nothing wrong with commenting on it objectively. If you aren’t allowed to comment or have an objective statement then that really speaks more about you and your need to treat him like a diety who cannot be questioned which would make you pretty damn extreme yourself.
     
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    At 80 he looks a thousand times better than you leftard.
     
  15. ThatBoyNick

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    Edit mistakes were made
     
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    You lefty fuuktards tried to kill him before and you failed. All you shiitheads can do now is just fantasizing. Like I’ve said in my previous posts, if one day we wake up and all of you libtards would vanished like that one episode in the Twilight Zone, this world would be a much better place to live.
     
  18. ROXTXIA

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    Well, people will throw gasoline onto a spark and the fire just explodes.

    Trump went off the grid for the better part of a week, and he's clearly physically unwell.

    Remembering that every time Biden's voice quavered the MAGA faithful (many of them in this thread, unless they're actually bots) would scream about his age and unwellness and etcetera and so on. And even CNN and the rest would pick up the baton.

    Hell, CNN didn't even peep about Trump's absence until he resurfaced. I looked. Nothing. So they're
    (a) petrified of his lawsuit bulls**t or
    (b) trying to avoid doing to Trump what they helped do to Biden (*cough*! TAPPER! *cough*) or
    (c) don't want to look like they're perpetuating a conspiracy by simply mentioning, "The President's absence has raised questions / concerns about his health."
     

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