Donald Trump was hit with fresh ‘diaper’ accusations in the United States on Sunday after viewers claimed he had ‘trouble standing’ as he ripped off his microphone and walked out of a tense NBC News interview with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker. The latest round of mockery erupted online within hours of the clip airing, with critics insisting the former president’s stiff gait and laboured exit were proof he was wearing an adult diaper.
For context, rumours that Donald Trump wears diapers have circulated for years on social media and in US political gossip circles, but they have never been substantiated. The claims have tended to flare up around awkward photos, strange silhouettes under suits or, more often, when Trump appears physically unsteady on camera. No medical evidence has been produced, and Trump himself has never addressed the allegations.
Trump Interview Meltdown Sparks Diaper Talk
The NBC interview, recorded at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and broadcast on Sunday, was supposed to be another set-piece encounter with a major US network. Instead, it ended in a visible meltdown as the 79-year-old clashed with Welker over his repeated insistence that both the 2020 presidential election and current primary contests in California were ‘rigged’.
Welker pressed him on the lack of evidence to support widespread fraud, a point long upheld by US courts and state officials. As she challenged his assertions, Trump grew increasingly irate, talking over the presenter and attacking the media. According to the broadcast, he eventually tore off his lapel microphone, dropped it to the floor and appeared to stomp on it before heading for the exit.
‘You’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked, and so is ABC and CBS and CNN,’ he fumed, jabbing at the television networks he has spent years portraying as enemies. ‘One-sided crooked networks. Let’s call it quits, because I’ve had enough.’
He then tapped Welker on the shoulder and signed off with a jarringly polite, ‘Thank you, darling. Have a good time,’ before turning away.
It was that departure that lit the fuse online. A viral clip posted to X, formerly Twitter, zoomed in on the moment Trump heaved himself up from the chair and began his stiff shuffle off set. ‘Trump has trouble standing up as he WALKS OUT of his interview with Kristen Welker,’ one user wrote, sharing the footage with millions.
Others piled in, seizing on the rumours that have dogged him for years. ‘He was weighed down by his full diaper,’ one commenter argued. ‘In Trump’s defence, the weight of that full adult diaper probably threw his balance off,’ another joked. A third added: ‘Of course if you had a full diaper you would too. Saddddddd days!’
Nothing in the clip confirms any of this. It shows an elderly man, clearly furious, levering himself out of a chair and moving awkwardly toward the door. People saw what they wanted to see.
Long-Running Donald Trump Diaper Rumours Resurface
The latest incident resurrected a narrative that first gained traction from a former Celebrity Apprentice staffer, Noel Casler, who has long claimed Trump struggles with ‘uncontrollable’ bowels. Casler alleged that Trump ‘has worn diapers since probably the 90s’, and said that during the US reality show’s late-2000s run, production would sometimes have to stop so he could be changed. Those claims have never been independently verified.
More recently, the speculation flared in April when a still from a 60 Minutes segment did the rounds online. In the image, taken as Trump sat with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting incident, a pronounced bulge could be seen at the back of his suit trousers.
‘Trump, sitting during his 60 Minutes interview shows not only how morbidly obese he has become, but that he wears a very thick adult diaper,’ singer Bill Madden wrote on X, posting the picture to his followers. The remark was part body-shaming, part armchair diagnosis, and all unverifiable.
Again, nothing beyond that image has ever backed up the diaper theory. No medical records have surfaced, no on-the-record testimony from current staff, no offhand admission from Trump himself. The rumours live in the same space as much of modern political discourse: half gossip, half gotcha, all noise.
NBC has not commented on the online speculation about Trump’s physical condition. The network has instead highlighted the substance of Welker’s questioning, particularly her challenge over his campaign promise of ‘no new wars’.
Earlier in the interview, Welker reminded Trump that he had run on keeping the US out of new foreign conflicts. ‘What changed? Because you insisted “no new wars”,’ she asked. Trump bristled and replied: ‘I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?’ Welker then pointed out that he had repeatedly told voters he would not entangle the US in additional wars, leaving the former president visibly scrambling to square his past rhetoric with his current line.
That messy tension between the politics and the spectacle is where this story really sits. On one level, Trump walking out on a journalist, stomping on a mic and calling TV networks ‘crooked’ is serious stuff for a man seeking to lead a country again. On another, large parts of the internet spent Sunday night arguing about whether the bulge under his suit was just bad tailoring or something more, well, absorbent.
Nothing is confirmed yet so everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
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