A California House Democrat on Wednesday launched a new, bizarre conspiracy about President Donald Trump’s health, suggesting the commander-in-chief has a terminal illness and is suffering side effects from a “special drug.”
Rep. Ted Lieu, who represents coastal Southern California, suggested a medical reason behind Trump’s decision to cancel a bipartisan housing bill signing ceremony.
“We have a bipartisan housing bill that both the Congress and Senate passed. It was supposed to be a big signing ceremony today in the Capitol, and then all of a sudden Donald Trump decides he’s not coming to sign the bill,” Lieu said.
He then speculated on baseless ideas for the cancellation.
“Well, why is that? Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Is he unable to stay awake today? What’s causing him to chicken out again? Is it Taco Wednesday, or is it side effects from a drug? We don’t know; this erratic behavior of the president is very concerning. He has trouble staying awake at multiple White House events and cabinet meetings. He has clearly some weakness in one of his arms. He’s got swelling in his hands, and the White House needs to come clean,” Lieu said.
.@RepTedLieu suggests Trump cancelled Housing bill because he got a special new drug for a terminal illness: “The White House needs to come clean…Did Donald Trump get this special drug? pic.twitter.com/ug6tlsSEwr
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 24, 2026
The president said in a mid-morning Truth Social post that he had canceled his planned press conference and would not be signing the housing bill, The Daily Wire reported.
“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump said.
Earlier Wednesday morning, he foreshadowed his frustrations in a post about Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s involvement with the housing bill.
“The Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren centric housing bill, which is of minor importance compared to lower interest rates, and even FISA, pales in comparison to passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” Trump wrote. “That is what Americans, both Dumocrats, Republicans, and everyone else, care about.”
That did not stop the California Democrat from cooking up a conspiracy theory, suggesting the president may be suffering side effects from a “special drug.”
“What we know is there’s a report saying that one person in America got this special new drug. It was a 79-year-old person who is very high-profile, and this drug can only be given under the compassionate use provision, meaning you do that if someone basically has a terminal illness,” Lieu said. “So we need to know: Did Donald Trump get this special drug from Eli Lilly, and did he get it under that provision? And if he did, why is that the case?”
The White House fired back with a profanity-laced response, calling the congressman a “dumb*ss” and “b*tch.”
“Ted Lewd is a dumb*ss,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said on X. “He probably spent hours laughing to himself thinking that peddling this lie would be funny. Sadly for Ted, there’s no special new drug to cure being a b*tch.”
Ted Lewd is a dumbass. He probably spent hours laughing to himself thinking that peddling this lie would be funny. Sadly for Ted, there’s no special new drug to cure being a bitch. https://t.co/gcBuYvTVZz
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) June 24, 2026
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