US senator Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about the Kentucky Republican’s condition after weeks of mounting speculation about his health.
The statement included a smiling picture of McConnell with his wife, Elaine Chao, a tacit response to speculation online that he had died or was incapacitated. McConnell held a copy of Sunday’s Washington Post sports section in his hand.
Is this photo real? What’s the source?
I have no idea if the second pic is real, but the “hospital” pic is slop -you can see the fake text on the newspaper.
The pic was from X, but 99% of X is fake.
https://x.com/liam323/status/2076486811954864413
My guess is both pics are faked.
No it’s not. The paper is the WaPo sports section from a day or two ago and the lettering matches well with that and the crunchy pixels. The newspaper might be photoshopped into an old pic or there’s some other fuckery but the text on the paper matches. (Also that kind of check pattern on Mitch’s shirt is hard for current commercially available LLMs but wouldn’t put it past them to have access to something fancy.)
MUCH easier to photoshop it than using AI.
This motherfucker dead.