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Liberals Spent Their Friday Night Thinking Trump Died For Some Reason

Liberal social media circles spiral into chaos over Trump’s brief absence, weaving conspiracy theories out of thin air—and a golf cart ride ends it all.
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Over the weekend, online liberals convinced themselves that former President Donald Trump had quietly slipped into the grave. The theory, based on little more than a two-day lull in public sightings, spread like wildfire across social media, turning a routine pause in Trump’s schedule into a carnival of conspiracy.

Posts multiplied by the hour, as users dissected grainy photos and invented explanations. One viral thread insisted that “heavy makeup” spotted on Trump’s hand was proof of bruises being covered up. Others theorized that Vice President JD Vance’s comments to USA Today — in which he said he was “prepared to step into the presidency” if tragedy struck, while stressing Trump’s vigor — betrayed inside knowledge. “Tragedies can happen,” Vance said, “but I’m confident the president is fit, energetic, and ready to lead.” The reassurance, far from calming speculation, only added fuel to the fire.

“The president is an incredibly good health,” Vance said. “He’s got incredible energy.”

The White House had previously disclosed some health issues facing the president.

By Friday night, the fever dream had taken on the qualities of a digital funteral. Liberals were jubilant that the president was dead. Users swapped memes, half-serious obituaries, and even invoked The Simpsons, after creator Matt Groening joked at Comic-Con about Trump’s death inspiring mass celebrations, wrote The Metro. Some went further, citing a surge in pizza deliveries near the Pentagon as “evidence” that officials were scrambling to respond to a catastrophe.

As with so many of the Left’s fevered delusions these days, the whole “Trump is dead, Trump is dying” cycle didn’t spring from hard evidence but from the imagination of a man who once called himself a conservative. In this case, it was Rick Wilson—now a full-time fake conservative who tells liberals what they want to hear—who lit the match, peddling rumors that the online left eagerly fanned the flames.

The Daily Beast noted that conservative political consultant Rick Wilson says a “MAGA Hunger Games” is playing out in Washington as President Donald Trump, 79, shows his age.

Wilson said “rumors from the Trumpverse” indicate that Vice President JD Vance is “moving fast” in this shuffling of power behind the scenes, positioning himself to take over the MAGA movement sooner rather than later, according to Wilson’s Substack.

“Slow or fast, he’s headed down,” Wilson said of Trump. “The circle who knows what’s up is very, very small and very, very paranoid. JD Vance knows, and he’s moving fast.”

The farce unraveled on August 30, when Trump was photographed in northern Virginia, driving a golf cart with his granddaughter Kai. Clad in a white polo and red MAGA hat, he looked every bit the relaxed retiree, not the phantom corpse of online fantasy. The sighting punctured days of speculation, confirming what sober observers already knew: Trump had not died, he had simply gone golfing.

The reaction online to Trump not having a public appearance really revealed how obsessed with the president the lives of a certain set of liberals have become. They really can’t live without him in a way.

The White House, for its part, offered no fresh medical disclosures beyond Trump’s July acknowledgement of chronic venous insufficiency, a common condition among older adults that causes leg swelling. That minor note, however, hardly justified the weekend’s hysteria.

In the end, the “Trump is dead” frenzy revealed less about the president’s health than about the fevered imagination of his critics. For a certain corner of the Left, the absence of proof was proof enough.

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