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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump -- approaching 80th birthday -- vanishes from public for 8 days after hospital visit
By David Edwards
Published June 3, 2026 10:03 AM ET
President Donald Trump has not appeared at a single public event in eight days and the White House isn't saying when that will change.
Trump's last confirmed live public appearance was May 27, when he presided over a Cabinet meeting at the White House. Since then, his schedule has been a wall of closed-press policy meetings, Executive Time, and private dinners. The only glimpse of the president came via a pre-taped Fox News interview with his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump not a public event.
The silence is conspicuous for a man who built his brand on dominating the news cycle. Even as he's gone dark publicly, Trump's Truth Social account has been anything but quiet his team has posted more than 122 times in the last 48 hours alone.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-disappears-after-health-exam/
The Roux Comes First
(2,377 posts)Grim Chieftain
(2,139 posts)Vogon_Glory
(10,402 posts)Will it be before or after most of the country starts wearing bright, cheerful colors?
Just asking
Grim Chieftain
(2,139 posts)"I really don't care, do you?" jacket. Seems appropriate.
3Hotdogs
(15,618 posts)Dr. T
(750 posts)for saying that.
🤣
artemisia1
(1,911 posts)paleotn
(22,865 posts)The one soul Satan himself would come up here to collect.
Satan - "Sonny, I've got a whole theme park of red delights for you!"
The Roux Comes First
(2,377 posts)paleotn
(22,865 posts)Goonch
(5,704 posts)
Turbineguy
(40,245 posts)and a loss for the rest of the World.
bucolic_frolic
(56,047 posts)unless it's a stent.
Boomerproud
(9,387 posts)He got more press in the 4 years as ex than Biden.
LisaL
(47,650 posts)He knows how to attract attention.
PatSeg
(53,722 posts)the media keeps falling for it over and over again, even though they know he is just a showboater and bullshitter. This has been going on for decades.
ananda
(35,613 posts)...
PatSeg
(53,722 posts)I think it especially goes back to the 1990s when Fox News was launched. The news became sensational reality TV.
ananda
(35,613 posts)That's why I boycott all MSM.
PatSeg
(53,722 posts)the right has chipped away at all the things that made us the world's preeminent "essential democracy". Countries often patterned themselves after the U.S. when setting up their new democracies.
Dave Id
(345 posts)people naturally want to know where the stink is coming from.
malaise
(298,491 posts)Or dying?
ShazzieB
(22,964 posts)It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out he's deathly ill, which wiil of course be kept secret from the American people for as long as possible. Maybe the narcissistic injury of all those musicians canceling on him was just too much!
malaise
(298,491 posts)Rec
republianmushroom
(22,813 posts)joshdawg
(2,988 posts)Tim S
(325 posts)Initech
(109,397 posts)Hes been shit posting AI slop garbage about how great he is on his shithole social media site 24/7 for the last week and its getting disturbing.
hamsterjill
(17,824 posts)Serious question. Not trying to bust your chops. I'm sure Stephen Miller has mastered the art of posting incognito.
Initech
(109,397 posts)Time to find out what.
Jilly_in_VA
(14,670 posts)Even the dumbest fool on his team, even Temu Hitler (aka Miller), and claim it's him. How would we know? The internet is anonymous.
Wiz Imp
(10,565 posts)He only posts in the middle of the night. And even some of those could be posted by others - likely Natalie Harpp or Dan Scavino.
Bluetus
(3,168 posts)If he was dead or incapacitated, the shitposting could continue indefinitely. She has his "voice" down. The only way you can tell it is not him is that there are fewer typos.
Initech
(109,397 posts)I feel like AI will take over and make it seem like he is still alive. That's a scary thought.
hamsterjill
(17,824 posts)And yes, it is VERY scary. Especially because you know there will be in-fighting amongst the thieves.
Wednesdays
(23,265 posts)Except that The Felon's double would be AI-generated and not nearly as altruistic. And the Vice-President is no "boy scout."
Bluetus
(3,168 posts)to keep cranking out his shitposts. By now, I bet most people here could very ably produce very authentic-sounding "Trump" shitposts.
wnylib
(26,612 posts)between his own posts and the team's posts. The team uses words that Trump never heard of. Trump uses simple, grade school language.
usonian
(26,737 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 3, 2026, 12:01 PM - Edit history (1)
And the dumpster lid closed on him.,


ETA:
Actual TV ad, not AI

https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=_wzvVz7Ap5s
remove the space to watch
littlemissmartypants
(34,796 posts)mwmisses4289
(4,860 posts)the notion that many of ts postings are by his "team" and not necessarily by him. Might be amusing to guess which of his team is posting which peice of nonsense.
calimary
(91,058 posts)At least we THINK its his team and not him.
It just occurred to me: what if THAT is the whole point? Just generating confusion. Its a most intriguing way to cloud (AND goop up AND shit upon) any efforts to get to the whole truth.
Create just a whole lot of rabbit holes.
Thats one way to confuse, perplex, and divide the enemy. MANY rabbit holes mean many more chances that one or more of his opponents will fall into one.
wnylib
(26,612 posts)If the team is posting for him during the night, then why is HE sleeping during the day?
Rob H.
(5,955 posts)His team doing the posts on Truth Central would explain why there have been at least three identical posts there in the last week, though.
Warpy
(114,735 posts)without members of his Cabinet, iI started to wonder just what is going on.
Dumping him before the midterms might just be their Hail Mary, trying to salvage the rest of the dead fish by cutting off its head. It's kind of a tos up as to whether or not it would work.
(sports metaphor soup, anyone?))
Johnny2X2X
(24,471 posts)Biden had Covid in office and that was the longest he didn't make a public appearance, 6 days. If this were Biden it would be wall to wall coverage of our President's "Health crisis!"
Torchlight
(7,109 posts)Sometimes, those hands and neck bruises can't be covered up with makeup, and he certainly doesn't want a public appearance looking like he does, so he waits until the faders, foundations, bronzers, concealers, blush, highlighters, setting spray and gloss can most effectively mask his true self from public once again.
Happy Hoosier
(9,669 posts)... and he doesn't want to appear in public until it's healed to the point he can sport his new implants.
MontanaMama
(24,766 posts)Ill chime in with the thought that hes maybe getting diuretics and his kidneys are failing.
AnotherMother4Peace
(5,201 posts)GoCubsGo
(35,041 posts)He disappears for over a week at the same time every month, lately. That fits with a lot of chemo schedules. Like most men his age, I'm sure he has prostate cancer on top of everything else. Or, some gastrointestinal cancer, given his shitty diet.
Rob H.
(5,955 posts)Who's a physical therapist with a doctorate in his field and 14 years' experience working with elderly patients just like Trump who thinks that's exactly what's happening. They won't be able to prop him up forever.
Sneederbunk
(17,666 posts)Midnight Writer
(25,875 posts)Bluetus
(3,168 posts)and definitely not the result of monthly infusions for his Alzheimer's disease.
Traildogbob
(13,198 posts)Of the Nations real Ft Knox Gold will he demand be used to make his coffin?
I think we should melt down all his fake gold crap, in our house, if he demands a Gold box.
I say bury him, insert a copper tube in his ass, poking up above ground, light it and give him a Kennedy flame of honor that will burn that blubber for decades. BUT, it has to be at Mardi Lardo.
That shit will be toxic. He has poisoned the country enough, Hell, the world.
relogic
(290 posts)that he has had an epiphany of slight shame after he let loose some rectal waste meant for those evil, ugly liberals at an inappropriate venue shall we say.
No, embarrassment, shame and self-correction for them are like ruby-red cheeks on a shriveled prune.
hamsterjill
(17,824 posts)With AI, with others posting on social media for him, with past video, etc. it would be months before anyone could prove that Trump had died. Sound far fetched? Yeah, that's where I'm at with his enablers. They could sucker his followers for years because they'll believe anything.
Nothing Trump and Company do would surprise me. Someone needs to order a wellness check to the White House.
Wednesdays
(23,265 posts)It would be like "Dave" or "Weekend At Bernie's," except with the help of AI. Like you said, they could keep the charade going for years.
hamsterjill
(17,824 posts)Great post!!!!
SoFlaBro
(3,812 posts)Lovie777
(23,962 posts)next is Vance and they will make him chose Rubio as VP.
wnylib
(26,612 posts)the symptoms of chemo therapy.
Prostate cancer shows up in aging men, as has happened to Biden. My father had prostate cancer and died from it at age 86.
If that is Trump's health problem, then he was no more fit to run for office in 2024 than Biden was. But Biden was still smarter and better qualified.
Hope22
(4,919 posts)Selfless in many ways ..
senseandsensibility
(25,717 posts)I think we know why.
viva la
(4,640 posts)He seems to be everywhere all the time-- that awful voice, the insults, the sneers, the crazy.
allegorical oracle
(6,620 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(17,713 posts)He did a press conference today. Insulted Kaitlyn Collins.