President Donald Trump apparently has no more insight into Sen. Mitch McConnell’s condition than the rest of the country does.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, the president said he had not spoken with the Kentucky Republican since his recent hospitalization. “I have no idea how he’s doing,” Trump said, according to CNN’s Alayna Treene.

McConnell, 84, has not been seen or heard from publicly since he entered the hospital on June 14, and his office has declined to explain what sent him there, WHAS11 reported. The longest-serving senator in Kentucky history plans to leave Congress when his current term ends in January 2027.

His team has offered little beyond a short update released July 2. “The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session,” the statemetn from his office read, according to NBC News.

The silence has fed weeks of online speculation. Axios reported Wednesday that emergency crews responded to an unconscious person at McConnell’s address the same day he was admitted and performed CPR, though the dispatch call never named the senator as the patient.

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