# Trump Vanished for Eight Days. Then We Went on Air - and Who's Next on the Bari Weiss Hit List?

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Podcast: [FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639)
Published: 2026-06-03T21:06:06+00:00
Episode link: https://www.narativ.org/p/trump-vanished-for-eight-days-then
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For eight days the most photographed man alive went unseen — no podium, no rope line, no walk to Marine One. The last live sighting was May 27th, the day after his third Walter Reed visit in thirteen months; since then, only a Truth Social feed running twenty-seven posts a day and one pre-recorded interview the White House wouldn’t date. We asked the question all afternoon: where is the president? Then, as the show was ending he answered it — Trump surfaced in an Oval Office press conference, his first live appearance in over a week. The press event doesn’t erase the eight days, or the staged-tape pattern, or the cardiologists asking why a man needs three physicals and four cognitive screens in a single year. Where has the president been for over a week and did the White House implement what was essentially a cover-up to mislead the country about his health? 5️⃣ Iran reopens the war — and the cameras look away At dawn, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired missiles and drones into Kuwait and Bahrain, killing one and wounding more than sixty at Kuwait’s airport, after a U.S. Hellfire crippled an Iranian tanker bound for Kharg Island; by midday the U.S. struck back at Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The truce Trump and Netanyahu broke three months ago is finished, the Fifth Fleet’s neighborhood is under fire, and American outlets barely covered the worst day of the Gulf war in months — the silence around the strike as telling as the strike itself. 4️⃣ Three elections, one direction Tuesday, three in five Los Angeles voters backed someone other than Mayor Karen Bass, sending reality-TV villain and registered Republican Spencer Pratt — AI ads, Trump-world applause and all — into a November runoff in a city that votes Democratic four to one; the same day, the Supreme Court…

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