President Trump this week mentioned he hadn’t heard the rumors about his dying over Labor Day weekend till a reporter introduced it up within the Oval Workplace on Tuesday.
However his eldest son, who was conscious of the claims going viral on social media, mentioned even he referred to as his dad on Saturday to verify he was OK.
Hypothesis concerning the 79-year-old president’s demise went viral on Saturday thanks to some days of bizarre radio silence mixed with a four-day stretch of no public occasions on his schedule.
Trump Jr. mentioned he reached out to his father over the weekend whereas the president was {golfing} along with his granddaughter in Virginia.
“I know my daughter’s playing golf with you as we speak, but you know, I keep reading about it on Twitter, so I just want to make sure,” Trump Jr. recalled saying. “[He] didn’t even know what I was talking about.”
“I didn’t hear that one, that’s pretty serious stuff,” Trump informed reporters, admitting he heard considerations about his well being, however not about his dying.
It’s unclear why Trump wouldn’t have admitted to listening to the rumors.
The president’s bodily well-being lately got here into query after he was photographed with swollen ankles and bruised fingers. The White Home attributed these abnormalities to power venous insufficiency, a situation that results in blood pooling within the decrease legs.
Persistent venous insufficiency is pretty frequent amongst older adults and isn’t believed to be life-threatening, although hypothesis on the contrary caught hearth on social media platforms like X.
