It’s redundant to suggest that something very strange is going on with Donald Trump, but a video shared on social media Tuesday is causing a major online debate about whether or not the twice-impeached president-elect may have had plastic surgery.
The video in question shows Trump standing next to Twitter/X CEO Elon Musk as they watch a rocket launched by Musk’s SpaceX company.
Reuters reported on the launch:
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its giant Starship rocket to space from Texas on Tuesday, advancing the ship’s spaceflight abilities but botching an attempt to bring its booster back to land as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump watched from the company’s rocket facilities.
The roughly 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) rocket system, designed to land astronauts on the moon and ferry crews to Mars, lifted off at 4 p.m. CT (2200 GMT) from SpaceX’s sprawling rocket development site in Boca Chica, Texas.
And here’s the video of Trump with Musk:
Is that really Trump, or someone wearing a Trump mask, sort of like the ones you see in the “Mission: Impossible” movies? Or did Donnie visit Melania’s plastic surgeon and have some work done to make himself look younger as he prepares for another term in office?
Commentary varied from mockery to conspiracy theories.