By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Published: 03 Jun 2025 • 19:05
• 2 minutes read
Donald Trump at an event with Senator Ted Cruz to his left, an unidentified man to his right, and Elon Musk and his son below him. | Credits: @realdonaldtrump
President Donald Trump shared a Truth Social post on Sunday that went unperceived initially, saying his predecessor Joe Biden had been executed in 2020 and what people have seen since are clones or robots simulating or impersonating the former head of the US government.
“There is no Joe Biden,” said Trump in a social media post. “Biden clones, doubles, and robotic(ly) engineered soulless, mindless entities are what you see.” The US president also said, “Democrats don’t know the difference.”
Fox News, an unwavering supporter of the current president, said Trump added no words of his own to the post, merely sharing the link on his personal account. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Biden’s stage 4 prostate cancer
Trump’s Sunday post comes amid new controversy over Biden’s health while in office. Speculation has intensified in the days since Biden announced he has stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer, a diagnosis that typically takes years to develop, said Fox.
“The nature of the diagnosis has led to speculation that members of the previous administration were aware of the cancer but withheld information about it from the public, even as they attempted to run Biden for a second term,” Fox News said.
And although initially Trump said he and his wife Melania, were saddened to learn Biden had cancer, in a May 30th interview, he said the exact opposite, stating he did not feel sorry for his illness.
‘I really don’t feel sorry for him’
When asked in a press conference on Saturday about Biden’s “aggressive” cancer, Trump responded, “If you feel sorry for him, don’t feel so sorry, because he’s vicious. What he did with his political opponent and all of the people that he hurt — he hurt a lot of people, Biden, so I really don’t feel sorry for him.”
The New York Times criticised Trump’s post as an “outlandish conspiracy theory”. And the US news outlet added that it is “the latest example of the president amplifying dark, false material to his millions of followers.”
The newspaper went further: “Mr. Trump has long had a penchant for sharing debunked or baseless theories online, but his embrace of conspiracies is not limited to social media. He has also elevated false claims inside the White House and surrounded himself with cabinet officials promoting such theories.”
According to the NYT, Trump and his Administration continuously blame Biden for “all manner of societal ills and assailed his mental acuity, including with the specious theory that Mr. Biden’s aides used an autopen to enact policies and issue pardons without Mr. Biden’s knowledge.”
The news outlet said, “Mr. Trump has acknowledged that his administration uses the autopen system on occasion.”
Thousands of false or misleading claims
Last month, while sitting next to the president of South Africa in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump claimed that white South African farmers were victims of mass killings and displayed an image intended to back up his assertion. However, the image was of the conflict in eastern Congo.
Unknowingly or purposely, Trump falsely asserted that white South Africans are victims of genocide, even though police statistics do not show that white people in the nation are any more vulnerable than other groups.
The New York Times also revealed that during his first four years in office, Trump made at least 30,573 false or misleading statements.
Trump’s repost of the robot conspiracy theory came a day after Biden told reporters that he was feeling good after beginning treatment for his prostate cancer.
