The Dems have nothing better to do than to portray a ‘fantasy’ of Trump’s demise

Over the Labor Day weekend, instead of enjoying the last days of summer with family and friends, Democrats and other Trump-deranged folk had nothing better to do than indulge in sick fantasies about the president’s death.

Hashtags like #trumpisdead and #whereistrump trended on X, with countless TikToks, Google searches and posts saying “TRUMP DIED” garnering millions of likes and views.

This was not a harmless meme or politics as usual. It was seeded by anonymous left-wing social media accounts and amplified by journalists and influencers to create a permission structure to fantasize about Trump’s demise.

Despite photos of Trump golfing with his grandchildren and his numerous long missives on Truth Social — including about the landscapers who ruined the new limestone paving in the Rose Garden — the rumor went viral.

Politifact traced the rumor’s origin to a tweet from a virulently anti-Trump “foreign policy” reporter named Laura Rozen, from Al-Monitor, who shared a screenshot of the White House presidential schedule and faux-innocently noted that Trump hadn’t been seen in two whole days!

Her post was viewed 34 million times and gave rise to countless copycats who dreamed up a White House coverup and all manner of ailments that might have felled the president.

Hearing of own ‘death’

“How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Trump at an Oval Office press conference Tuesday.

“1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.”

In the style of Mark Twain, who once famously said “reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” Trump made light of the rumor, and dismissed it as “fake news.”

He pointed out that he had a “very active” weekend.

“Last week I did numerous news conferences . . . and then I didn’t do any for two days, and they said, ‘There must be something wrong with him.’ Biden wouldn’t do them for months. You wouldn’t see him. And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him.”

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Exactly.

Joe Biden was AWOL ­almost his entire presidency and on the few occasions he was encountered by the press, he alternately whispered, yelled, fell over or shuffled about like a cadaver. Yet all the same people who turned a blind eye to Biden’s infirmities and routinely castigated the rest of us — “He’s sharp as a tack! Stop being ageist! Cheap Fakes!” — are now questioning Trump’s health.

In a 2,000-word piece written by three reporters Tuesday, The New York Times revisited the bruises on Trump’s hand that they keep pretending are sinister but just come from vigorous handshaking with large numbers of people, something Biden was never at risk of doing.

“His ankles are swollen. He is the oldest person to be elected president,” they wrote, while acknowledging a “wishful-thinking industry around Trump’s health [and] legal woes.”

At 79, the president demonstrates an enormous capacity for vigorous action, morning, noon and night. What drives his opponents mad is they can’t keep up.

That’s why the entire Democratic Party apparatus is keyed in to the elimination of Trump.

No answer to victories

He has shown them up badly, and they have no answer to his victories, whether on illegal migration, big-city crime, cutting taxes, ending wars, boosting the economy, kicking biological boys out of girls’ sports, canceling vaccine mandates, Making America Healthy Again and all the other commonsense prescriptions he is energetically putting into place.

They can’t seem to counter him or change course and have no leader other than a snake oil salesman named Gavin with slicked-back hair and bizarre hand gestures who tries unsuccessfully to imitate Trump.

So they have retreated into the delusion that, if only Trump were gone, all their problems would vanish.

Their constant framing of Trump as “Hitler,” “authoritarian fascist” and an “existential threat” who must be stopped at all costs fosters a climate in which death threats against the president are normalized.

This week, Washington, DC, grand juries let off two nutjobs charged with repeatedly threatening to assassinate the president.

One was a New York woman who posted on Facebook that she wanted to “sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea” and was arrested by the Secret Service at a “No Fascist Takeover of DC” rally outside the White House.

After Trump survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 election campaign, liberal feeds lit up with regret.

One-third of Democratic voters surveyed by a British politics professor in a small snap poll published in UnHerd in July 2024 agreed with the statement, “I wish Trump’s assassin hadn’t missed.”

Former FBI Director James Comey typified the casual malice when he posted an Instagram photo of seashells that spelled out the numbers “8647,” which he captioned: “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”

The number 86 is a slang term meaning “to get rid of” or “kill,” and Trump is the 47th president.

So Comey’s message was a pretty clear incitement to violence for which he was investigated by the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.

Of course, he pretended he had no idea what the numbers meant: “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.”

As if a guy with decades in law enforcement who rose to the top of an intelligence agency that specializes in national security threats wasn’t adept at interpreting coded assassination threats.

Trump knew better: “That meant assassination, and it says it loud and clear. Now, he wasn’t very competent, but he was competent enough to know what that meant.”

Chi-town incitement

Then there is Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has no solution to the violence that claimed eight lives in his city over the weekend.

On Monday at a protest rally, he bordered on inciting violence against federal troops whom Trump has threatened to send in to clean up crime.

“Are you prepared to defend this land that was built by slaves?” he shouted.

“Are you prepared to defend this land?”

Earlier he told MSNBC: “The people of this city are accustomed to rising up against tyranny and if that’s necessary, I believe the people of Chicago will stand firm.”

Rise up or stand firm.

The message is clear.

Violence is encouraged, or at least condoned, by Democrats with nothing to offer, just as it was in 2020 when luminaries from ­Kamala Harris to Minnesota First Lady Gwen “I want to smell burning tires” Walz welcomed the mayhem of the George Floyd anti-cop riots.

This is not normal.

A collapsing political party is as dangerous as an animal in its death throes.