President Donald Trump’s political success was derived in part by being omnipresent on every screen. So his recent absence from public view provoked all sorts of speculation – fed by social media algorithms that promoted conspiracy theories and complete nonsense to huge numbers of people.

“TRUMP DEAD” became a trending topic over the long Labor Day weekend, fueled, perhaps, by liberal wishful thinking and online influencer boredom. Seeing a chance to cash in on the trend, content creators with no real information about Trump’s health began to post speculative items about a possible injury or surgery.

The viral storm was best summarized through the posts of one self-proclaimed psychic with more than 125,000 followers on TikTok. “Trump is actually going to die on the 28th of August,” she p

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