President Donald Trump stepped on the global stage as he represented the United States at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, but one moment from the summit had viewers sharing wild theories about the American’s underpants.
Trump, dressed in a dark suit and his signature red tie, spoke for over an hour at the Davos event before sitting down with CNBC news anchor Joe Kernen for an interview to discuss the U.S. economy and international trade.
At the end of the livestreamed conversation, Trump stood up to face the audience. Cameras captured the 79-year-old politician clapping, pointing at the crowd, then grabbing his belt buckle as he pulled up his pants.
That last motion became a talking point online, as some viewers suggested Trump’s pants were slipping as he rose to his feet. Other observers had different opinions about why the MAGA frontman felt the need to readjust his slacks.
“I think that was more of ‘let me pull my pants up over my gut,’” one person on Threads proposed. Trump weighs over 200 pounds and has a sizable belly.
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But as Trump leaned forward, attention quietly shifted away from his pants and upward, with eagle-eyed viewers latching onto a different detail altogether — his neck. The image circulating online appeared to show skin folding and pulling under gravity, and the conversation’s tone flipped almost instantly as commenters zeroed in. “HOLY COW… look at that neck!!” one person wrote, while others piled on with laughter and jokes about gravity “doing its job way too well.”
Within moments, the scrutiny moved upward. Attention shifted from his neck to his lips, which appeared cracked and dry, prompting a new wave of speculation. “Those are really dry lips,,,what drugs is he on?” one commenter asked, while another concluded bluntly, “By the looks of his mouth, he is not healthy.”
Former “Apprentice” staffer Noel Casler went on the record, saying that the older Trump has allegedly worn diapers since the 1990s. According to Casler, production of the reality program was often halted due to the host defecating on himself.
“I saw it firsthand in the 2000s on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ in the late 2000s, and we’d have to stop the show and change him. That was [former Trump Organization director of security] Keith Schiller’s job,” Casler, 54, stated about the president in 2020.
The stand-up comedian also said, “He would take him off set. He would wipe him down. Our nickname for Keith was Wet Wipes. It’s not a joke. It’s happened several times. You’ve seen it happen while he’s in office.”
Most of the world is paying close attention to what Trump has to say in Devos about his foreign and economic policies for 2026, but that simple gesture of gripping his belt inspired expert-level trolling that revived allegations that America’s chief executive has uncontrolled bowel movements.
