"Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump hosted a pool of reporters in the Oval Office to announce that the space operations of the United States would be relocating to Alabama, and-more crucially-that the man was still alive. Trump, you see, was uncharacteristically absent from the public eye last week. The president wasn't available for press access on Wednesday or Thursday and didn't have any events scheduled through Labor Day weekend."
"Bluesky and Twitter roiled with unsubstantiated speculation about the president's health. Had he suffered a massive heart attack? Was he about to resign? Would this address amount to Stephen Miller and J.D. Vance propping up the bloated corpse of the moldering incumbent, Weekend at Bernie's -style? The answer to all those questions, of course, was no. As far as Trump media gaggles go, this was pretty mild."
President Donald Trump was absent from public events for several days around Labor Day, with no press access on Wednesday and Thursday and no scheduled events through the holiday. An itinerary indicated an unspecified announcement, prompting widespread online speculation and death rumors across platforms like Twitter and Bluesky. Followers circulated a zoomed-in photo and imagined severe illness or resignation. Trump later hosted reporters in the Oval Office to announce that U.S. space operations would relocate to Alabama, joked with Senator Tommy Tuberville, and dismissed the death rumors by saying he "didn't see that" and calling the rumors "sort of crazy."
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