If you noticed, as some others did, that President Donald Trump has been keeping an uncharacteristically low public profile this week, you weren’t the only one.
Social media was alight Friday with speculation about the 47th president’s whereabouts and, more grimly, his health.
“Trump has not been seen publicly since his cabinet meeting on Tuesday,” journalist Aaron Rupar noted on X, as he shared a post remarking on the president’s wide open Labor Day weekend public schedule.
“Donald Trump hasn’t been seen in public since Tuesday and has no events scheduled all weekend,” the Republicans against Trump account wrote on X. “Where is he? Who’s running the country?”
First things, first: Trump is most assuredly alive. On Friday, the president took to Truth Social to assure his supporters that his tariffs, which had been struck down by a federal appeals court, were still in effect.
To wit:
“ALL 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. If 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,” Trump wrote.
Remarks by Vice President JD Vance added to the situation, with Trump’s No. 2 saying that he was ready to step in for Trump if something happened.
The 79-year-old Trump was again seen this week with bruised hands caked in makeup, weeks after the White House confirmed the bruising and announced a diagnosis associated with it.
On Monday, bruising was seen on the president’s hand while photographs were taken of him during a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, USA Today reported.
Days earlier, the touched-up bruises could be seen on his hand when he was in the Oval Office.
These bruises have been spotted since August 2024, NBC News reported.
In February, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC News that the bruises were from “constantly working and shaking hands all day, every day.“
But the White House responded after more reports in July took note of the bruising, as well as swelling seen in his lower legs.
In July, the White House confirmed that Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, “a benign and common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70,” White House physician Sean Barbabella said in a memorandum.
Vance insisted, in an interview with USA Today, that Trump was in “great health.”
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