NEW: Tim Walz Under Fire After Video Shows Him Hoping For Trump’s Death

Is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz secretly wishing for the death of President Donald Trump? The internet sure seems to think so.

Over the weekend, Walz was spotted at a rally in the state where last week’s horrific double homicide by a transgender shooter appeared to be the furthest thing from his mind. Instead, the former vice presidential candidate revealed his amusement at the “news” about President Donald Trump’s health.

“You get up in the morning and you doom-scroll through things,” he said from the stage.

“Although I will say this, you woke up the last few days thinking there might be news!”

Walz appeared to reference nearly a week’s worth of online speculation that Trump’s health is waning, a suggestion he pushed back against forcefully. As if to address the persistent rumors, the president teased a “major” announcement at the White House on Monday.

Trump hasn’t given public remarks since a three-house Cabinet meeting last Tuesday, and his only comments have been confined to social media.

On Friday, the hashtag “whereistrump” began to go viral, making liberal ghouls — Walz among them — gleeful about the possibility he was unwell.

“Just saying!” the governor said to laughter from a friendly crowd.

“There will be news, sometime! There will be news. Just so you know.”

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Social media users were quick to compare Walz’s rhetoric to the kind uttered by Robin Westman, the 23-year-old shooter who killed two children during a rampage through a Catholic church in Minneapolis last Wednesday. Guns used in the attack featured crudely drawn messages, including one ammo magazine which read “Kill Trump.”

Walz and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) were among the politicians present for a Labor Day picnic at Bayfront Festival Park, where protestors held anti-Trump signs and chanted slogans about fighting. His appearance came one day before he announced he was considering convening a special session of the legislature to introduce more anti-gun bills.

“The sad reality of it is that what happened last week is preventable, because so many nations around the world do it,” Walz told CBS News while attending the first day of school at Deerwood Elementary in Eagan. “And we cannot resign ourselves to believe that our little ones can’t be safe in what should be and always is the most safe environments they can possibly be in.”

Walz said he plans to put out a proposal “in the next day or so that I think is very comprehensive, it’s been done in other places, it’s been done without infringements on people’s Second Amendment rights, but it has proven that it will help protect our students.”