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Trump, 79, Uses Old Golf Pic to Prove He’s Alive and Well (www.thedailybeast.com)

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President Donald Trump, 79, was largely absent from public view for several days last week, sparking an online death-watch fueled by his visibly swollen cankles, bruising on his hands, difficulty walking, and a string of mental gaffes.

Though reporters spotted him in-person Saturday morning at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, Trump seemed to directly respond to the viral speculation on Sunday with a Truth Social post featuring a photo of himself golfing with disgraced NFL coach Jon Gruden.

But the post quickly backfired when eagle-eyed social media users dug up an Instagram post from Gruden dated Aug. 23, showing him in the exact same clothes—fueling theories that the image Trump posted wasn’t recent at all.

That hypothesis was all but confirmed after sleuths uncovered Associated Press footage from Aug. 23 showing Trump himself wearing the same outfit as the one in his Truth Social post.

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

I think the entire "distraction or not" debate is moot. With the average politician, there's strategy in redirecting the narrative. With a narcissist like Trump, everything is a distraction, and not a distraction. He feeds on attention, any attention. Everything he does and says is bizarre, outlandish, and designed to keep your attention, so there is never an end to the firehose of bullshit.

It's all real. He has no guile. It's just also all bullshit.