Vice President JD Vance seemed to use the recent rumors about the health of President Donald Trump to discredit the media on Wednesday, but it was a swing and a failure.

“If the media you consumed told you that Donald Trump was on his deathbed because he did not make a press conference for 3 days, imagine what else they are lying to you,” Vance, who regularly attacks the press, published in X.

Actually, no means of good reputation reported such a thing. Rumors about Trump’s health lived on social networks, largely in the property of Trump Elon Musk’s friend, and began to circulate when Trump disappeared from the public eye for a few days, he appeared with great bruises in his hand and made strange comments about the hope that he will enter heaven.

Vance’s comments also fed the rumor factory. Last week, people seized the comments he made about being ready to assume the presidency if any “terrible tragedy” made Trump not serve.

The White House did not respond immediately when asked to clarify what “media” referred to Vance in its publication X.

Vice President JD Vance listens to President Donald Trump, makes an announcement at the Oval office on September 2, 2025.
Vice President JD Vance listens to President Donald Trump, makes an announcement at the Oval office on September 2, 2025.

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The only means of communication that the president asked about health rumors publicly was News friendly with Trump, whose correspondent of the White House, Peter Doucy, asked the president on Tuesday if he had seen the talk.

Trump said no, then he added: “I knew they were saying, as: ‘Is it okay? How does it feel? What’s wrong with rumors as” false news “and said they are” why the media have so little credibility. “

The media reports that followed made it clear that Rumors about Trump’s health were just that.

Brian Steter of CNN, a network that is one of Trump’s regular suitcases, made a story on Tuesday that explored how to chat about Trump’s health at such febrile levels without any real report. He pointed out that one of the great internet presences to establish them was a psychic self -proclaimed in Tiktok.

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A New York Times report detailed in detail everything Trump, his doctors and the White House have revealed his health since he entered politics.

And before Trump took Doucy’s question on Tuesday, many media reported that they saw him golf on Saturday, which was in the apogee of death rumors.