The @status.news newsletter looks into the current president's "visible bruises" and asks: Why are the country’s biggest newsrooms silent? www.status.news/p/trump-heal... [paywall likely]
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He’s phucking about to kick! The whole country is so giddy… We’re planning for the street parties!
aug 30, 2025, 3:10 pm • 3 1 • view
Hope springs eternally.
aug 30, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
congestive heart failure seems like the simplest explanation
aug 30, 2025, 3:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Wow! So he has bruises on both hands, not just from handshaking? 😳
aug 30, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Because his name isn't Joe Biden? I know--unhelpful.
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 pm • 3 1 • view
What “press”. The folks asking the questions in the briefing room are OAN, Newsmax and a bunch of right wing conspiracy theorists with YouTube channels.
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 0 • view
This also includes judging presidential mental and physical health unless they have a leak from a doctor who actually examined them. (With the exception of Biden's age, obviously.) bsky.app/profile/airb...
aug 30, 2025, 4:43 pm • 6 3 • view
@airbagmoments.bsky.social wrote: “Journalism is not a real profession with enforceable standards. ” Are there any professions that consistently and ethically enforce their “enforceable standards”? One of the signposts of fascism is that “standards”—like guide rails—mean nothing.
aug 30, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
However you feel about the ways law and medicine manage to enforce or fail to enforce, they have written standards and mechanisms to enforce standards. Journalism has nothing like that, in part because it would be against 1A. Thus journalism is not, and cannot be a profession. This gives them feels.
aug 30, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Literally any profession that requires licensing, or has a history of organized labor does. Cops, lawyers, doctors, plumbers, electricians, pilots, truck drivers, architects, civil engineers, etc etc etc etc etc etc
aug 30, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 0 • view
And there it is. WHY ISN’T THIS BEING BEAT TO DEATH EVERY DAY LIKE YOU DID BIDEN.
aug 30, 2025, 8:42 pm • 3 0 • view
The press has been an abject failure since trump came down the escalator.
aug 30, 2025, 3:13 pm • 10 2 • view
The funny part is that working to hide any condition Trump is suffering from will likely hasten his death.
aug 30, 2025, 5:09 pm • 6 1 • view
I'm good with that.
aug 30, 2025, 5:59 pm • 5 1 • view
We are so used to being lied to about Trump's health, that we automatically assume whatever we are told officially is a lie.
aug 30, 2025, 4:49 pm • 5 0 • view
Mitch McConnell has had hands like that for years and he’s still in office (unfortunately).
aug 30, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude is like the crypt keeper. Isn't he like 960 years old? Jesus.
aug 30, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
paging @jaketapper.bsky.social , who has always taken such a special interest in pressing news re: the health of the President.
aug 30, 2025, 2:59 pm • 22 1 • view
He’s too busy white-washing genocide.
aug 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 4 0 • view
Because oligarchs. You all know the answer why is everyone still feigning shock? It's their world we just linger in it.
aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Cc @passantino.bsky.social
aug 30, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
They are all afraid of him. He has repeatedly shown how he will retaliate against things he doesn’t want to hear. They are businesses. Only independent journalists say anything at their peril and don’t reach enough people anyway.
aug 30, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Thanks for sharing, Jay. Weekend editions are free to read!
aug 30, 2025, 3:28 pm • 14 0 • view
Didn't know that. Thanks, Jon. Any plans for gift link system?
aug 30, 2025, 3:31 pm • 5 0 • view
We don’t presently have the ability to generate gift links on published articles, but it’s definitely something we are looking at
aug 30, 2025, 4:53 pm • 5 0 • view
I think the only reason why this is important is because he's the president and the fear of his death resulting in president jd vance. I do care about the lives forever changed by his effing policies. Their wellbeing is much more important. If he dies while in office they'll pretend he's alive.
aug 30, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
This is, just based on what we already know, a bigger cover up than anything Biden’s team ever did and there is no sign they have any intention of being transparent. This should be a 5 alarm fire for Jake Tapper.
aug 30, 2025, 3:06 pm • 10 3 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 2:58 pm • 4 0 • view
When the White House press room is filled with sychophants the last thing they will do is press for answers! What is transparent to us is hidden behind the screeners! But then they're as anxious for him to croak, as the rest of us. JD is chomping at the bit!
aug 30, 2025, 3:50 pm • 2 0 • view
I find it rather unfathomable that this is NOT a big story. Have we completely lost the gossip tabloid weeklies, too? Haven't seen an Enquirer by a supermarket checkout counter for what seems like years now.
aug 30, 2025, 3:15 pm • 3 0 • view
It's a pattern. Only the propoganda reality version gets published. All thanks to voter supression and gerrymandering, with corruption, bribery and lobbyist control. These things prevent impeachment and give us six corrupt religious nutjob SC justices.
aug 30, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
He looks like shit. He will die. It's the anticipation that is killing us all. The press is right wing sycophants who are hanging around to catch the scraps that he throws to them. I'm not looking forward to the flea market extravaganza of death memorabilia that'll be sold on the White House lawn.
aug 30, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
The corporatized media, almost wholly owned by Trumpster oligarchs, have coddled, protected him for years, despite his false-flag type of phony criticism of them. They virtually did zero investigation into the bizarre Butler shooting, & ignored huge incongruities & questions about the last election.
aug 30, 2025, 3:08 pm • 4 1 • view
The press has turned a blind eye to many matters. The failure of the main news out lets (and the bravery of smaller ones reporting truthfully) will be another chapter in the history books,. Yes looking at you, @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com
aug 31, 2025, 12:56 am • 1 0 • view
It can come from blood thinners. But why is he taking blood thinners if his heart is as strong as a bulls?
aug 30, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
And yet they gleefully front-paged the fake Biden dementia gossip like it was a national emergency.
aug 30, 2025, 5:24 pm • 22 0 • view
They had Hillary on her death bed during the 2016 campaign.
aug 30, 2025, 5:25 pm • 25 2 • view
Oh right!!!
aug 30, 2025, 5:26 pm • 6 0 • view
Let’s say that they do say he has heart failure or AFIB. Then what? You think house republicans would impeach him?
aug 31, 2025, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course not. Where did you get that one?
aug 31, 2025, 3:51 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m genuinely interested in understanding why a sitting president’s health status is of interest, other than determining if there is a reason for them to be removed from office either by impeachment and conviction or section 4 of 25th amendment. As we know neither has ever happened.
aug 31, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
For a candidate, yes, that’s an interest of the voter, but a second term president is what we have here.
aug 31, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Start a hashtag. Make it a good one though.
aug 30, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
💀⚰️ The bruises on the back of his hand is the mortuary embalming him. He’s already dead inside. ⚰️💀
aug 30, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
He hasn’t been seen in public since when?
aug 30, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
He was spotted today going golfing
aug 30, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Especially Jake Tapper. Where is he?
aug 30, 2025, 3:09 pm • 4 1 • view
Because they want to be his special lapdogs.
aug 30, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a great question!
aug 30, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree but find it odd that he also writes about Biden's 2024 loss.
aug 30, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course they’re gonna avoid it, they don’t want to lose their access to the bullshit machine
aug 30, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
NYT will say “some say he’s dead, others say he’s just resting” when he actually dies
aug 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 16 2 • view
So true! “Leading Democrats say that the lack of breathing or a pulse suggest death, but Republicans dispute this analysis. Speaker Johnson said that President Trump’s non-responsiveness is a sign of a clear and focused mind.”
aug 30, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
He's pining for the fjords!
aug 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 8 0 • view
bc they are access-based propaganda outlets, not newsrooms. see how easy it is to answer these questions when you stop making assumptions based on information from 1970?
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Why? We already know why. You think Bezos is going to allow that kind of coverage? The LA Times? NY Times? Nope.
aug 30, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 1 • view
Because they're all desperate for access
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
The acute swollen ankles, and bruises most likely caused by systemic oral anticoagulants definitely point to some cardiac complication. Hand bruises could also be from IV or phlebotomy sticks. I know he doesn’t walk much, but any video of him seemingly out of breath after walking or climbing stairs?
aug 30, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
He couldn't walk in a straight line in Alaska.
aug 30, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Are they going to sit silently by on these death rumours? This seems pretty huge, especially since Biden’s health was such an issue previously.
aug 30, 2025, 3:33 pm • 3 1 • view
I just now searched NY Times for info on Trump's illness or bruised hand or health concerns - nothing came up. They spent weeks covering Biden's age after the debate. Their bias is quite stunning.
aug 30, 2025, 2:58 pm • 509 121 • view
@jaketapper.bsky.social might know.
aug 30, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
NY Magazine wrote an explainer Thursday, but no coverage at all from the big outlets nymag.com/intelligence... archived: archive.ph/GTrrt
aug 30, 2025, 3:51 pm • 40 2 • view
Thank you!
aug 30, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks, Peter.
aug 30, 2025, 4:00 pm • 8 0 • view
I think a whisper campaign from the ppl hits him harder than NYT (Fake News!) because includes so much editorializing from folks that aren’t holding back.
aug 30, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
When reporting on Ernst’s decision not to run for reelection, they went out of their way to say she’s a sexual assault survivor, but not that she had an affair with a lobbyist she’s supposed to be regulating. They have never reported on that. The NYT is right wing propaganda.
aug 31, 2025, 1:01 am • 0 0 • view
It’s probably not so much bias as it is the asymmetry between the parties. The media companies know that Trump will bring down the immense power of the Federal Government upon them and they knew that Biden would never even consider doing so.
aug 30, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
⛳ And where is he now? ⛳ With that granddaughter? ⛳ Playing golf?
aug 30, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
C'mon, this is a press that based its entire assassination attempt coverage on "the Trump campaign said so". Not a single medical report. No reporter ever saw the wound. It was 100% "we trust Trump". Of course they won't make a big deal about Trump's health if he says he's fine.
aug 30, 2025, 4:36 pm • 20 1 • view
aug 30, 2025, 5:40 pm • 6 2 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The New York Times is clearly not a reliable news source 🙄
aug 30, 2025, 8:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Especially considering that Trump has blatantly lied and refused to participate in normal disclosures. “Ah well he doesn’t disclose his health and he’s the second oldest president and had an undisclosed mystery emergency in his first term at Walter Reed. Nothing there!”
aug 30, 2025, 4:10 pm • 4 0 • view
Yet they will insist that they were brave truth tellers, after Trump’s term
aug 30, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Houston Chronicle ftw
aug 31, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 1 • view
9/1/25 - after days of speculation on social media about Trump's health and whereabouts - that seems to be a story @nytimes.com remains uninterested in covering. Maybe age matters only if the president is Biden.
sep 1, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
NYT coverage yesterday included snark about “rampant online speculation” re Trump—as if there weren’t enough silence from journalists? and as if the photo with a golfer named Gruden weren’t a likely fake btw there is some speculation (subjunctive) but a whole lot of optative mood (wishes, hopes)
sep 1, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 1 • view
Melania has looked rather cheerful these last many weeks ...
aug 30, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Might be a candidate for a transplant...if they can find a match as black as his.
aug 30, 2025, 6:54 pm • 2 0 • view
The NYT invented a Parkinson’s diagnosis for Biden in the middle of the campaign based on absolutely nothing.
aug 30, 2025, 3:03 pm • 8 3 • view
Comrade Stalin has a cold.
aug 30, 2025, 8:16 pm • 2 0 • view
All those book readings about Biden’s health must’ve caused @jaketapper.bsky.social laryngitis or something. Gargle with salt water and get your ass in gear, you damned hack.
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 pm • 1 1 • view
The press is turning a blind eye to many things - shame on them
aug 30, 2025, 3:07 pm • 3 2 • view
TL;DR — MSM is complicit.
aug 30, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view