Hi everyone!
Trump made an appearance on Tuesday, debunking all the disturbingly hopeful rumors that were circulating on social media over the weekend. Tim Walz said something cryptic about "news" coming "soon" while California's own Maxine Waters claimed "Article 25" should be invoked to remove him from office—if you're wondering what that is, you're not alone. She meant the 25th Amendment.
By Saturday, rumors were swirling among the very online Democrats that there was something fatally wrong with the president. They complained they'd seen "no signs of life," forgetting that Trump is a man who really likes to touch grass. Illinois' Governor JB Pritzker complained the president should "send everyone proof of life" when Trump spouted off about the murder rate in Chicago, which neither Pritzker nor Mayor Brandon Johnson seems to want to deal with or acknowledge at all.
Trump, however, was out on the greens at his own Virginia golf resort with his granddaughter Kai playing a round of golf. And by Tuesday, he was back before the public eye, in the Oval Office, making proclamations and announcements. He was even asked about the petulant rumor mill of death. Pete Doocy asked, "How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?"
"You know," Trump said, "I have heard it's sort of crazy, but last week, I did numerous news conferences, all successful. They went very well, like this is going very well, and then I didn't do any for two days, and they said 'there must be something wrong with him.' Biden wouldn't do him for months. You wouldn't see him," he said to big laughs, "and nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him, and we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape." He then pointed out that he was "very active over the weekend" and was out "at the club."
Couple of things on the agenda: he's moved the Space Force HQ from Colorado Springs to Huntington, Alabama, aka ROCKET CITY. Part of the reason was that he just really hates Colorado's whole mail-in voting system.
Every ballot has to go through a series of hands before it gets to the place where it's opened and counted. Is there definitely fraud? Who can say. Are there lots of nooks and crannies in that system where fraud can definitely be hidden from view like so much melted butter? Yeah, there sure is.
The other big news from the Oval is that America has gone after the cartels. Trump announced "we just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug carrying boat, lotta drugs in that boat. And you'll be seeing that, and you'll be reading about that. It just happened moments ago.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff "gave us a little bit of a briefing," Trump said. "And you'll see, and there's more where that came from. We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time, and we just— these came out of Venezuela, and coming out very heavily from Venezuela. A lot of things are coming out of Venezuela. So we took it out."