Where in the world is Donald Trump? Rumors swirl heading into the holiday weekend

If you observed, as some others did, that President Donald Trump has been preserving an uncharacteristically low public profile this week, you weren’t the only one.

Social media was alight Friday with hypothesis about the forty seventh president’s whereabouts and, more grimly, his health.

“Trump has not been seen publicly since his cabinet meeting on Tuesday,” journalist Aaron Rupar famous on X, as he shared a post remarking on the president’s broad 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 issues, first: Trump is most assuredly alive. On Friday, the president took to Truth Social to guarantee his supporters that his tariffs, which had been struck down by a federal appeals court, have been still in impact.

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 state of affairs, with Trump’s No. 2 saying that he was prepared to step in for Trump if one thing occurred.

The 79-year-old Trump was again seen this week with bruised arms caked in make-up, weeks after the White House confirmed the bruising and announced a diagnosis related with it.

On Monday, bruising was seen on the president’s hand while pictures have been taken of him during a assembly with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, USA Today reported.

Days earlier, the touched-up bruises might be seen on his hand when he was in the Oval Office.

These bruises have been noticed since August 2024, NBC News reported.

In February, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC News that the bruises have been 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 doctor Sean Barbabella said in a memorandum.

Vance insisted, in an interview with USA Today, that Trump was in “great health.”

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