Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Tuesday, September 2nd.

And this is the Playbook podcast. The Playbook podcast is back. I am back and Megan Messily is back. How you doing, Megan?

I'm so great. It's so good to have you back behind the

mic. It's such a pleasure to be here. Did you have a wonderful Labor Day or did you spend it all working like me? It's always a little bit of work, a little bit of play. You know, we try to balance it where we can. It doesn't feel like the end of summer to me. It feels right in the middle of it, but yeah, I'm here for it.

Driving the day today, well, basically politics is back, Megan,

not that it really went away. in the middle of it, but yeah, I'm here for it. Driving the day today, well, basically

politics is back, Megan, not that it really went away, but Congress is back, but more importantly,

President Donald Trump is back. We're expecting to actually see him in the Oval Office today for

the first time in what, a whole week or something like that. Yeah, yeah, first time in a week.

First time in a week, which is pretty normal for lots of presidents, but pretty unusual for this president. He's going to be

making an announcement of some description, something to do with defense. We are told in the

Oval Office this afternoon. But he's been pretty active in social media. He's been making announcements

and stuff. But because we haven't actually seen him, this seems to have triggered something of a frenzy on social media or certainly liberal social media, Megan, about his whereabouts.

Have you seen this?

Have you come across this on your social media feed?

I have.

Yeah, it really felt like it was growing.

And I woke up Saturday morning and it had exploded overnight and felt like every post on X I was seeing was speculating about his whereabouts.

Basically people speculating about his health and like, you know, is he still alive?

Because we haven't seen the present for a whole few days.

Like, you know, we get the pool reports.

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