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\n\tThe Late Show<\/em> is back for its final season. Host Stephen Colbert kicked off his return from break with a look at the rampant speculation over the weekend that Donald Trump had died. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhen I came to the office I was shocked to learn that this weekend the biggest story was frenzied social media rumors speculating whether Donald Trump had died,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cFor the record, Donald is very much alive.\u201d When the audience booed, Colbert noted, \u201cWe like our presidents alive.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tHe continued, \u201cThis whole crazy rumor started because Trump had zero events on his schedule last Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. And one of the only signs that he might still be around was music in the Rose Garden, which the White House confirmed was the president\u2019s music. which I\u2019ve got to say is not the strongest proof of life. Yes nurse I do see that flat line, but the patient is clearly alive because his iPhone is playing \u2018Papa Loves Mambo.’\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tColbert shared a clip of J.D. Vance responding to questions about whether he was ready to take over the role of president. Vance said, \u201cThe president is in incredibly good health and he\u2019s got incredible energy. While most of the people working around the president of the United States are younger than him, we find that he is actually the last person to go to sleep, and he is the last person making phone calls at night.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOkay, so the president doesn\u2019t sleep and is on the phone all night, proof that he is completely healthy, or he runs a phone-sex line,\u201d Colbert responded before mimicking what that might entail. \u201cWhat am I wearing?\u201d he said in a Trump-like cadence. \u201cI\u2019m wearing my baseball hat with my name on it and compression socks for my bloated cankles. Oh, they\u2019re so plump with fluid right now!\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tThe host continued, \u201cThere is nothing mysterious going on at the White House, not even this completely normal video from the weekend where someone drops multiple heavy mystery bags out an upper story window. A little weird, but today the administration cleared up exactly what was going on there. The White House official told reporters it was a contractor doing regular maintenance while the president was gone. Yes, exactly, perfectly normal in every administration. When the president\u2019s not there, randos are let in to throw trash bags out the windows. It\u2019s called democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tTrump later claimed that the video was AI, saying people always blame AI whenever something really bad happens. \u201cYou just blamed AI!\u201d Colbert said. \u201cWhich means something really bad happened! Are you dead? Were you in those bags? Are you AI?\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n \n\tYesterday Trump told reporters he was unaware of social media rumors speculating about his supposed\u00a0death\u00a0or rapidly declining\u00a0health\u00a0that went\u00a0viral\u00a0over Labor Day weekend.\u00a0\u201cNo\u2026 I didn\u2019t see that,\u201d Trump told\u00a0Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy. \u201cLast week, I did numerous news conferences, all successful. They went very well \u2014 like, this is going very well \u2014 and then I didn\u2019t do any for two days and they said there must be something wrong with him. [Joe] Biden wouldn\u2019t do them for months.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHowever, according to an administration official and another source briefed on the matter, Trump was absolutely aware of the online rumors that he was dead or dying, with a source telling Rolling Stone<\/em>: \u201cHe fucking sees everything.\u201d The administration official added that the president is \u201cthe healthiest I\u2019ve ever seen him,\u201d and that any attempt to portray him as frail or declining is \u201cfake news\u201d and \u201cmalicious.\u201d Asked if the official was told to say that by Team Trump brass, and if everyone at the White House is just trying to make Trump seem big and strong, the Trump official simply hung up on\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Late Show is back for its final season. 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