President posts a fist-bump photo with the disgraced NFL coach; the internet notices the outfit is from a week ago.

Pay attention. Last day of August. The President, who has been the subject of a week of online speculation about his physical condition because nobody has seen him in days, decides to settle the speculation once and for all. He goes on Truth Social. He posts a photograph. The photograph: him, in a golf cart, fist-bumping the former head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, Jon Gruden. The Gruden who got run out of the NFL in 2021 over leaked emails. That Gruden. The man is wearing a navy blue TRUMP hat. The caption: “Great playing Golf with Jon Gruden — A really nice guy, and true character!” The President also posts, separately, “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE. Also, DC IS A CRIME FREE ZONE!”

Buddy. Two problems. Two.

Problem one. Jon Gruden is the man whose career ended specifically because his private emails were leaked and the emails contained, among other things, racist remarks about NFL leadership and homophobic remarks about a player. That is a fact. The settlement record is public. The man is now, four years later, on the cart with the President of the United States, who is posting a photograph of him, captioned true character. The President has the entire United States to play golf with. The President picked Gruden. Of all the guys.

Problem two. The internet, which is now operating at full capacity on every photograph the President posts because nobody trusts the press shop anymore, immediately noticed something. Gruden is wearing the same outfit he wore in an Instagram post from August 23. Same hat. Same shirt. Same cart, possibly. The post is dated the 31st. So either Gruden wore the same exact outfit eight days apart, which men do but men this rich do not, or the photograph is from a week ago and the President is using a recycled photograph to prove he is alive today.

Either way. Either way. Look. Either way.

I have run a casino floor. I know an alibi photo when I see one. The alibi photo is the photo of you with the date stamp and the newspaper of the day held up so the camera catches it. This is not that. This is just a fist-bump in a cart with the wrong man wearing the wrong hat from possibly the wrong day, and the caption asks us to believe the President is doing great.

I’m arguing with the television. The television is checking timestamps.