He’s not dead. But he has been mysteriously absent from public life for seven straight days, and the White House isn’t saying much about it.
Donald Trump was last seen at a cabinet meeting on May 27th. Since then — no rallies, no press conferences, no rambling speeches to military officials. For a man who once averaged seventeen social media posts before breakfast, the silence is striking.
His allies say he’s been in closed-door meetings. His doctors released a health report that critics called, in the words of one journalist, “too good to be true.” He turns 80 soon.
Meanwhile, the week’s actual news was eventful enough without the conspiracy theories. The Justice Department quietly killed a controversial $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate people who claimed they were unfairly investigated by the government — dropped with no press conference, no explanation, no fanfare.
Tucker Carlson, once Trump’s most powerful media ally, has spent the past few months publicly unraveling over his decision to support him. In April he apologized to his audience for misleading them into voting for Trump. The feud is ongoing and getting uglier.
And on Iran, Trump told NBC that he thought the US had been “talking too much” — suggesting that silence might actually be his strategy.
Which, to be fair, would explain the week.
