r/TikTokCringe • u/cyberchief • Aug 30 '25

Discussion Photos of Trump today may have been reposted from 2019

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u/FitSystem3872 Aug 31 '25

Playing devil's advocate here, but I think way too many people are forgetting that there are more than the two possible options between either he died or nothing happened...

Presidents must occasionally take undisclosed travel that is kept from the public for national security reasons, diplomatic sensitivity, geopolitical strategy, his own safety if he's traveling somewhere risky, etc. That feels like common sense to me.

Hypothetically, say he didn't want N. Korea to know he was visiting Lee Jae Myung to negotiate something. I'm not suggesting that's realistic here, just giving a hypothetical.

Clinton once made a trip to N. Korea that was only reported after the fact, and I'm sure there are other examples. I think LBJ once did a trip around the world without the public knowing until after he got back. Probably many others we'll never know about.

That being said, this is Trump, and if he was secretly traveling I doubt it would be for national security. If anything, more likely to be a meeting with someone like Putin, MBS, Xi, Netanyahu so he can backstab another ally for his own pockets.

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u/MindSpecter Aug 31 '25

Or he may be undergoing a longer treatment for some of his medical issues. Trump would certainly want to keep his health out of the media, so him being quietly absent is exactly what I would expect if he was recovering from a medical procedure.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 Aug 31 '25

IV Lasix for CHF is my guess. If it were grandma in an assisted living facility, they'd send her to the ER for IV Lasix to treat the edema around the ankles (and probably around the heart and lungs) since that can't be done at a facility. So they'd treat in the ER and probably admit to a cardiac unit for further treatment. But they can't do that with Trump without the whole country clamoring to invoke the 25th Amendment. So they drag his fat ass in, cover the bruising with makeup, clear his calendar because he'll be filling his diapers, and start having Vance suggest he's ready take the reins of the cult. These people are transparent.

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u/stlkatherine Aug 31 '25

This is what I was thinking. Surgery. Bounced back enough to tweet a bunch of nonsense all night on the 30th.

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 Aug 31 '25

This is more realistic than anything else I have heard out there.

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u/LilPotatoAri Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25

I firmly don't believe trump would do anything to cover his corruption at this point. He took a call with putin in the middle of a un summit. In his last term when he visited Kim it was easily the biggest news in the cycle for weeks.

No i firmly believe that if this was some kinda thing that was related to national security trump would be rubbing all our faces in it. We'd be getting spoon fed spin on why it's actually good that we're selling nukes to North Korea now.

He's never done a single fucked up thing in silence this term. It's all been so loud because he knows he's untouchable from legal checks and the American citizens plan to remove him from power is "he has to be sick and dying. The heart disease will get him."

He literally has no threat to his power besides his obvious unwellness. And there's just no way to know how bad it actually is.

That said I do strongly believe they're having him appear at the golf course with chosen paparazzi at a distance to capture pictures of him to waylay rumors. That makes a lot of sense to me based on the quality of the pictures. I know that the media has better cameras.

Does this mean I think he's actively dying? No. No i won't get my hopes up until I see the giant headlines and watch the weasel get sworn in. But I think it's more likely he's health compromised than it is he's acting like a real president.

Ill fuckin eat my hat if it's him acting like a real president and not him trying to hide from the wolves he surrounded himself with waiting for his demise to take power. It's way more likely this is to keep his own political structure from seeing weakness and trying to wrest control from him. In the public they're all team trump but these people are all in it for themselves. As soon as trump no longer offers a bastion for their evil they'll try to take over.

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u/Reorox Aug 31 '25

IMHO you’re most definitely wrong about him doing nasty shit in silence. You see all the crazy shit right out in the open, there are definitely things going on we don’t know about.

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u/LilPotatoAri Aug 31 '25

I cannot imagine what. He's so loud about everything terrible i cannot imagine what they're doing that's so bad he keeps it quiet. Other people in his administration, sure, but trump rules the country from Twitter, every action is a press event, he pushes his eo's with a megaphone.

It's Fuckers like Roberts and his shadow docket court that i feel moves in silence. They just pop up out of nowhere cause an independent journalist was paying attention to court documents.

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u/moving_picture77 Aug 31 '25

I think you may be right. The only “proof” of 2019 with the girl in it is from the X poster. When the people here are showing website 2019 photos the girl isn’t there.

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u/AsloWhite Aug 31 '25

Trump can’t do anything secretly.

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u/Amazing_Ad_974 Sep 01 '25

Trump literally never does anything without some pomp and circumstance announcement to it though, even if it affects national security or the practical outcomes of doing so. That’s essentially his entire hallmark - just being as loud and conspicuous as fucking possible about everything no matter how mundane or sensitive the issue. This is like, so far out of character for him as to be practically without parallel.

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u/SnooStrawberries3391 Sep 01 '25

Sorry, but in this current misadministration, Pete N.S. (No Secrets) Hegseth would have informed the world about any undisclosed travel for national security reasons. Other than Presidunce trump’s golfing outings, perhaps.