President Donald Trump exits the White House and walks to his motorcade, en route to the Trump National Golf Club on Sept. 1, 2025, in Washington, DC.

America’s conspiracy-theorist-in-chief Donald Trump is confronting some about his own health now, after a decade of claiming his political opponents were too mentally and physically ill to handle the presidency.

“Well, it’s fake news. You know, it’s just so ― it’s so fake, that’s why the media has so little credibility,” he said, oddly blaming news organizations for rumors of his impending demise that existed only on social media.

Trump, who spreads conspiracy theories on a near-daily basis and has eagerly spread unfounded rumours about opponents ranging from Ben Carson to Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden, appeared not to appreciate the irony.

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“It’s the apotheosis of karma for the man who pretended Hillary was on death’s door,” said Rick Wilson, a veteran Republican political consultant in Florida who broke with his party after Trump seized control of it in 2016. “Mr. ‘Low Stamina’ is now the butt of his own joke.”

Trump’s White House did not respond to HuffPost queries on the matter.

Since he began his political career a decade ago, Trump has repeatedly questioned both the physical and mental states of his opponents, starting with those in the 2016 Republican presidential primary field. He began by calling Jeb Bush “low energy,” suggesting that the former Florida governor, who was a collegiate tennis player and was known in Tallahassee for his long work days, lacked the stamina for the presidency.

As the primary continued, Trump turned his attention to others. When Carson rose in the polls, Trump claimed the neurosurgeon was a violent sociopath.

“He went after his mother with a hammer and he wanted to hit his mother over the head with a hammer, that he stabbed somebody, that he hit somebody in the........

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