JD Vance Lobs Unusual Assault After Trump Demise Rumors

Vice President JD Vance appeared to make use of the current rumors about President Donald Trump’s well being to discredit the media Wednesday, however it was a swing and a miss.

“If the media you consumed told you that Donald Trump was on his death bed because he didn’t do a press conference for 3 days, imagine what else they’re lying to you about,” Vance, who often assaults the press, posted on X.

In actuality, no respected media outlet ever reported such a factor. The rumors about Trump’s well being lived on social networks — largely on the one owned by onetime Trump pal Elon Musk — and commenced circulating when Trump disappeared from the general public eye for a couple of days, appeared with giant bruises on his hand and made unusual feedback about hoping he will get into heaven.

Vance’s remarks fueled the rumor mill, too. Final week, individuals seized onto feedback he made about being able to assume the presidency if some “terrible tragedy” rendered Trump unable to serve.

The White Home didn’t instantly reply when requested to make clear which “media” Vance was referring to in his X publish.

The one information outlet to publicly ask the president in regards to the well being rumors was the Trump-friendly Fox Information, whose White Home correspondent Peter Doocy requested the president on Tuesday if he’d seen the chatter.

Trump mentioned no, then added: “I knew they were saying, like: ‘Is he OK? How is he feeling? What’s wrong?’” He then referred to as the rumors “fake news” and mentioned they’re “why the media has so little credibility.”

Media stories that adopted made it abundantly clear that the rumors about Trump’s well being had been simply that.

Brian Stelter at CNN, a community that’s one in all Trump’s common punching luggage, did a narrative Tuesday that explored how chatter about Trump’s well being spiraled to such feverish ranges with none actual stories. One of many large web presences to set them off, he famous, was a self-proclaimed psychic on TikTok.

A New York Instances report on Tuesday detailed at size all the pieces Trump, his medical doctors and the White Home have disclosed about his well being since he entered politics.

And previous to Trump taking Doocy’s query on Tuesday, loads of media shops reported that he was seen {golfing} on Saturday ― which was on the peak of the loss of life rumors.