Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) poked fun at “body double” conspiracy theory floating around since he was recently hospitalized for clinical depression.
“I just want you to know that I’m back and that I’m feeling great, 100%,” said Fetterman in an April 18 tweet. He also said that, while he was in the hospital, the “fringy fringies” created a conspiracy theory that he has a body double, citing tweets on the subject.
Then, the camera pans to show another Fetterman asking “what event” he supposed to be doing later that day.
“Dude, really?” the “first” Fetterman asked before the “double” walks off and “Just the Two of Us,” by Bill Withers plays.
Fetterman, formerly the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, won his Senate seat in a race against Republican candidate and TV personality Mehmet Oz last November. In May 2022, he suffered a stroke and he was hospitalized this February for “light-headedness,” according to his office. When seizure and stoke tests came back negative, he was released.
Later that month he entered a six-week in-patient program for clinical depression at Walter Reed Medical Center. He went home in late March and spent time with family in Braddock, Pa., until the Senate was back in session Monday.
Fetterman said that he struggled with depression before he entered the program.
“It’s like, you just won the biggest race in the country. And the whole thing about depression is, is that objectively, you may have won, but depression can absolutely convince you that you actually lost. And that’s exactly what happened. And that was the start of a downward spiral,” he said.
Thankfully, Fetterman is now feeling better, and willing to joke.
“Thought it was time to address the rumor: I do not have a body double,” he said in the video caption.
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