{"id":187882,"date":"2025-08-30T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187882\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:17:13","slug":"president-trump-is-alive-and-well-after-bizarre-false-online-speculation-suggested-he-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/187882\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump is alive and well after bizarre, false online speculation suggested he died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Online rumors of President Trump\u2019s demise were greatly exaggerated \u2014 much to the dismay of creepy leftist critics.<\/p>\n<p>The president took a brief hiatus from public appearances this week, sparking morbid theories and social media posts speculating he had died.<\/p>\n<p>But the haters had their hopes dashed Saturday morning when Trump appeared alive and well at the White House.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36976807\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/granddaughter-kai-trump-l-load-110336148.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump and his granddaughter Kai Trump leaving the White House.\" class=\"wp-image-36976807\"  \/>President Donald Trump and his granddaughter Kai Trump load the motorcade on the south lawn of the White House in Washington DC on Aug. 30, 2025, as they head to Trump National golf course in Sterling, Va. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump was photographed in a white polo, black pants\u00a0and his signature red MAGA hat about 8:45 a.m. , appearing <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/29\/sports\/kai-trump-teases-the-president-in-video-promoting-accelerator-energy-drink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alongside his granddaughter, Kai Trump<\/a>, as they loaded up in a vehicle headed for his golf club in Sterling, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Suspicions that the president had died were stoked on Friday, when the White House released a blank schedule with no public events for the president during Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule came four days after Trump\u2019s last <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/26\/us-news\/donald-trump-breaks-silence-on-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public appearance<\/a>, during his Tuesday cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The hiatus sparked the hashtags \u201c#TrumpIsDead\u201d and \u201c#WhereIsTrump,\u201d which trended on X throughout Friday night and into Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36976808\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/u-s-president-donald-trump-110338426.jpg\" alt=\"President Trump departing the White House.\" class=\"wp-image-36976808\"  \/>President Donald Trump departs the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Aug. 30, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaking up to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TrumpIsDead?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TrumpIsDead<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/whereistrump?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#whereistrump<\/a> reminds me that JD \u201cPopekiller\u201d Vance has been spending a lot of time around Don lately\u2026\u201d the Lincoln Project\u2019s Rick Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheRickWilson\/status\/1961774916715401421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted to X <\/a>on Saturday, referencing how Pope Francis died shortly after meeting the vice president in April.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>While the president wasn\u2019t physically seen by White House reporters on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/25\/us-news\/trump-claims-good-conversation-with-putin-since-monday-talks-but-no-details-on-ukraine-meeting-as-russia-keeps-striking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> took to Truth Social, posting about a federal appeals court ruling that declared his tariffs trade agenda illegal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cALL TARIFFS ARE STILL IN EFFECT! Today a Highly Partisan Appeals Court incorrectly said that our Tariffs should be removed, but they know the United States of America will win in the end,\u201d he said. \u201cIf these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country. It would make us financially weak, and we have to be strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Online rumors of President Trump\u2019s demise were greatly exaggerated \u2014 much to the dismay of creepy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,12800,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,277,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5223],"class_list":{"0":"post-187882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-golf-course","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-trump","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}