The last thing you probably want as president - besides World War III - is an embarrassing rumor that you pooped yourself.
And just when we thought the latest news surrounding President Donald Trump couldn’t get more bizarre, it turns out that people are speculating whether the POTUS had an unfortunate accident last week.
Rumors are circulating that Trump may have had the incident while he spoke to reporters after a video that was taken during the press conference has now gone viral on social media.
Obviously, there’s no proof to indicate the accident actually happened but many people have been sleuthing to try to pin down the truth.
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The video was shot during a White House conference when Trump was signing an executive order aimed at addiction recovery efforts.
However, it seems that the meeting abruptly ended, with reporters being signaled to leave the room.
Some viewers of the clip suggest that there were a few sour faces from those positioned behind the president.
After catching light of the clip, people rushed to social media to share their reactions, with many absolutely convinced that Trump suffered a seriously awkward bowel blunder, claiming they heard him ‘sh*rt’, convinced it was the reason why everybody left with such haste.
One X, formerly Twitter, user wrote: “I know there's a lot going on right now competing for our attention, but I need you all to see that Trump sh*rted himself on live TV so loud you can hear it and the aides had to rush all the press out of the room.”
Another declared: “So yeah... Donald Trump, on live TV, in front of journalists, at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, sh*t himself, and you can hear it. Watch the lady in the green jacket and RFK Jr next to her.”
“Donald Trump pooped himself live on TV!” claimed an additional X user.
A fourth added: "Reporters rushed out of the room because Trump s*** his pants. lol. Lady in green tasted it.” Ew.
While the prospect of a world leader ‘pooing himself’ in front of the whole world may be a funny prospect to some, it didn’t actually happen.
White House spokesman Steven Cheung has confirmed that the rumour making its rounds all across the internet was simply ‘not true’.
Fact-checking site Snopes reports that the video was ‘authentic and showed no signs of digital manipulation or content generated by artificial intelligence’.
However, the outlet adds ‘there was no evidence to support the claim that Trump pooped himself during the meeting’.