That is, until McConnell shared a photo of himself and his wife, Elaine Chao, from his hospital bed. Claiming that he was on the mend after a brief battle with a “mild case of pneumonia” and that “folks of my generation often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with growing older,” it seemed like the mystery was solved. Or was it?
Earlier this week, republican Senator Ron Johnson stoked the fire by saying, “I’ve just heard from some other sources that was an older photo. So I really don’t know. I haven’t talked to Mitch. I certainly wish he and his family well. I hope he can recover,” while appearing on the conservative media channel Real America’s Voice.
The questions didn’t stop there. A slew of social media speculation sparked a seemingly endless series of faux photos of McConnell. Political commentator Glenn Beck shared a carousel of mock pics on Instagram featuring the same hospital bed setup, but with very different subjects (Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Tupac, and Elvis). Beck captioned his post, “It’s amazing how many people I’ve had 20 minute conversations with in the past few days! Thankfully, they all had today’s newspaper to prove it.”
View this post on InstagramJimmy Kimmelposted a now-viral photo of his own head superimposed on McConnell’s body, writing, “For those who’ve been asking, I’m feeling great.”
View this post on InstagramStewart continues with a sarcastically biting, “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the totally believable evidence that Mitch McConnell is not only alive, but the happiest boy in the hospital.” He then showed his own fake photos of McConnell and his wife, saying, “Here they are at Splash Mountain, and then apparently they climbed the spire of the Empire State Building and renewed their vows. And then, let’s say went to a World Cup game.”
On a recent Reddit thread, commenters wrote, “You’re trying to put forward a ‘proof of life’ photo, yeah, either way, it’s a bad idea. Now we’ve more questions as this Weekend at Mitch’s sense over the entire situation is just weird in every sense”, “I think it’s a real, older photo of him with his wife that they AI-ed the newspaper into,” and, “The only entity that is apparently not skeptical of this news is the mainstream media in the U.S.”
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