New conspiracies over Trump's health swirl after text interview with CNN's Jake Tapper

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 07 October 2025 08:21 BST


President Donald Trump has reignited speculation over his health and physical stamina after he engaged in a bizarre interview with CNN conducted through text message over the weekend. For months, reporters and other observers have noted that Trump’s speech has often been slurred during appearances, pressed the White House on the origins of bruising and heavy makeup to cover it on Trump’s hand, and requested information on his health, only to be rebuffed by the White House. Now, the 79-year-old commander-in-chief has added to the questions with a written question-and-answer session, purportedly between him and anchor Jake Tapper, who hosted the network’s State of the Union program on Sunday.

Tapper said he’d asked Trump a series of questions about the 20-point peace plan he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled last week at the White House — a plan that has been accepted in part by Hamas and is currently the subject of a new round of talks with US and Israeli negotiators in Egypt. As images of the messages were displayed on screen, Tapper said Trump had replied to a question about what happens if Hamas tries to hold on to power in Gaza by writing: “Complete Obliteration!”

Another question on whether South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is correct to question Hamas’ sincerity because the militant group has not addressed demands that it disarm under the plan, Trump replied: “We will find out. Only time will tell!” Tapper continued to narrate the visual display of the purported text messages from the president, closing the alleged interview with a question about how Trump believes the now six-day government shutdown will end. According to Tapper, Trump replied: “Good, we are winning, and cutting costs, big time!”

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions. He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-health-cnn-interview-b2840195.html

[bearsfootball516]

1. He very well may be in declining health, but I don't think those texts prove much of anything.

It just sounds like how Trump normally responds, to be honest. They don't seem unusual.

Unless the argument is that he refused a phone interview because he couldn't speak clearly, and it was an aide providing the text responses while pretending to be Trump, which would obviously be a massive five alarm fire.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Yes, I think the point of the piece is that Trump's switch to text interviews calls into question

whether he's actually answering the questions or why he's not doing voice interviews.

Overall, the piece is pretty silly and fanciful, since we see Trump on teevee blathering stupidly every day. That said, it's also good to point out Jake Tapper's usual clownish hypocrisy, since he's gone all in on lack of transparency about Biden but is perfectly OK with an arguably dubious text interview with Trump.

Takeaway: Jake Tapper, still a MAGA dipshit.

[Gimpyknee]

9. I agree with your assessment.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

17. Let's all just take one second to clear our minds and imagine a world in which....

...then President Joe Biden had not only not appeared on screen; not only did not do the interview by phone where his voice would clearly indicate it was him answering questions; but where he hid behind the anonymity of a text chain for an interview. And not like an interview for some middle school newspaper but for CNN....

I for one would actually have been extremely concerned, and MAGA would have marched on the US Capitol again to force him out.

Imagine it for any past president for that matter.

But this kind of thing is now so normalized that even some of us on DU take it with a shrug? Nobody in the press even got a hair out of place much less had to run as fast as they could for a fire extinguisher to put it out?

But the inevitable truth behind the situation is that there is a serious reason behind it. And this White House will never let us know what it is until Ted Cruz opens a closet in the new ballroom and finds his spray tanned bones....

[bucolic_frolic]

3. so, either Trump was typing or voice to text interprets his word salad correctly.

Now I ask you, which is correct?

[tanyev]

4. Trump and Tapper.

[sop]

5. When has Trump ever refused doing one of his trademarked bullshit call-in interviews?

The texts were probably written by an aide; it sounds like Trump, but with correct spelling and punctuation. Maybe Tapper will write a book when Trump starts using one of those Stephen Hawking speech-generating devices?

[kerouac2]

6. As opposed to his coherent statements the past x years?

Trump has been tossing word salads and gibberish for a long time now. It has been clear that he is mentally unfit for awhile. When you put that on top of his underlying core of evil narcissism, it's just plain frightening.

[usonian]

7. He's a chatbot. Probably programmed by ChatGOP.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20703078

And Miller's pulling the strings on his rotted corpse.


https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

Judge for yourself.

Tue, Apr 29th 2025 09:34am - Mike Masnick

We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something that sounds right. The actual truth of the response is, at best, a secondary consideration.

snip

But over the last few months, it has occurred to me that, for all the hype about generative AI systems “hallucinating,” we pay much less attention to the fact that the current President does the same thing, nearly every day. The more you look at the way Donald Trump spews utter nonsense answers to questions, the more you begin to recognize a clear pattern — he answers questions in a manner quite similar to early versions of ChatGPT. The facts don’t matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate.

snip

This is not the response of someone working from actual knowledge or policy understanding. Instead, it’s precisely how an LLM operates: taking a prompt (the question about job losses) and generating text based on some core parameters (the “system prompt” that requires deflecting blame and asserting greatness).

The hallmarks of AI generation are all here:
• Confident assertions without factual backing
• Meandering diversions that maintain loose semantic connection to the topic
• Pattern-matching to previous responses (“ripped off,” “billions of dollars”)
• Optimization for what sounds good rather than what’s true

[mwb970]

8. Jake was obviously communicating with President Miller, not his puppet.

[Clouds Passing]

10. Dumpy's health problems are not conspiracies.

The conspiracy resides with the msm not telling the truth about dump’s dementia and other serious health problems.

[travelingthrulife]

15. Really. When these people go down, we need to make sure the wealthy people behind

this media manipulation go down as well.

[chouchou]

11. It's in the cards that JD Vance will be the "Big Guy" shortly. But,..

...will Miller still have insane power strings over President Vance? Personally, Not looking to ANY Reality.

[usonian]

12. They (3 crypto bros) are ready and waiting.

They are all about tech and crypto ruling the world. Trump is a short-sighted idiot.




https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20692367

They may have no need for Miller. When you rule currency, you rule the world. YMMV

Your Miller May Vary

[travelingthrulife]

16. All three are short-sighted fools.

Why are we letting these immigrants from South Africa destroy us?

[usonian]

18. White supremacist Trump is inviting more.

F---ing deranged.

[surfered]

13. Texting while on dialysis?

[Miguelito Loveless]

14. Jake Tapper: Fascist enabler.

Making it all seem normal.

[displacedvermoter]

20. Think there will be another book coming

out about Trump's decline? Probably not.

[Wicked Blue]

19. Is he dead yet?

Anxious people are waiting...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. He's not declined that fast ...

... darn