Donald Trump has spent the last few weeks crisscrossing the country to rally Republicans ahead of the midterms.
Meanwhile, the president’s team keeps insisting he’s in tip-top shape.
Only days after his awkward walk on the tarmac left viewers asking where exactly he was headed, the 80-year-old’s latest stroll has people questioning whether he can stay on course.
The clip surfaced as Trump headed out for a midterm campaign stop in Grand Island, Nebraska.
According to the Nebraska Examiner, the president was scheduled to appear at the Nebraska State Fair’s Pinnacle Bank Expo Center. He planned to campaign for Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts, who faces independent Dan Osborn in a heated race.
The trip is part of a late push to shore up red states before the Nov. 3 election.
But first Trump had to get from Marine One to Air Force One.
Video shared by X user Aaron Rupar shows Trump stepping away from the helicopter beside a uniformed Air Force officer.
Instead of heading straight for the plane, Trump drifts diagonally. He gradually moves toward his escort, who takes extra steps several times to stay out of his path.
“Trump isn’t beating the ‘can’t walk in a straight line’ allegations,” Rupar wrote on X.
The video ends with Trump gripping the handrail as he climbs Air Force One’s stairs, then turning at the top to pump his fist for the cameras as if nothing had happened.
Viewers weren’t nearly as relaxed about the revelation, saying “Good lord … he’s veering.”
Plenty of people couldn’t take their eyes off the officer. “People don’t talk enough about how deft that officer is at taking a wide step forward every so often to avoid Trump bumping into [her],” one commenter observed.
Others noted that the route was practically mapped out for him. “He needs a wheel alignment,” one user pointed out.
Another quipped, “Trump looks like he’s about to fall over at any moment. He should step back from campaigning and get substantial rest, especially given the challenges he may face if the Dems secure control of both chambers of Congress after November 3rd.”
The viral clip landed just days after another video circulated on social media.
In that behind-the-scenes footage, shared widely on X on Oct. 2, viewers zeroed in on how stiffly Trump’s right leg seemed to move as he walked with his team.
“He’s had drop foot for awhile. It’s worsening,” noted one person. Another said, “Wow! It is very noticeable. And that baggy suit looks like [crap] on him. You’d think a guy with 12 billion bucks could getta good tailor.”
Neither clip comes with any medical explanation, and nothing in the footage itself shows why Trump moves the way he does.
The White House has disclosed his condition on the record. In July 2025, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency after photos showed his swollen ankles. She called it “a benign and common condition” for people over 70, CBS News reported.
His most recent annual physical, conducted in May at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, showed normal gait and balance while noting slight lower-leg swelling that had improved from the year before, according to International Business Times.
His physician, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, has said the president remains in “excellent health.”
That clean bill of health hasn’t stopped the clips from piling up, or the questions that come with them.
In August, Trump’s habit of slapping his right leg as he walked had viewers asking whether he was trying to “wake that leg up.” Days later, he was inching across a rain-soaked tarmac with an umbrella as viewers scrutinized his cautious steps.
Last week, even a still image got in on the act, with a bizarre photo of the president leaving viewers doing a double take.
The scrutiny hits harder because of the person drawing it. Trump spent years mocking Joe Biden’s stumbles, and he has bristled at constant comparisons to Barack Obama’s athleticism after a viral video of the former president showed just how wide the gap has become.
Now, with Election Day less than a month away and Trump racking up campaign miles, every walk to the plane has turned into its own referendum, and online, at least, the tarmac isn’t voting in his favor.
