Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been away from the Senate for almost two months due to a health issue, and his office has released a pair of “proof of life” photographs, along with statements that he’s not ready to return to work yet.
Now, some pranksters are making light of the situation.
According to Mediaite, a series of “missing person” posters featuring the senator have appeared in Washington.
The posters feature McConnell’s picture, the word “MISSING,” and the description, “84 years old 5’9 FEET TURTLE-LIKE.”
Someone put up a missing person poster for Mitch McConnell outside the Senate 😉
“If you have any information about his whereabouts please keep it to yourself. He would.” pic.twitter.com/FM3NcMEI5V
— Save America Movement (@SaveAmericaMvm) July 29, 2026
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“Known for: Blocking something in the Senate. Distinguishing feature: Tortoise-like appearance,” the posters say. “If you have any information about his whereabouts, please keep it to yourself. He would.”
The Save America Movement has claimed responsibility for the posters, and they explained the stunt to The Independent.
““We put those flyers up because this has gotten absurd,” a spokesperson for the group told the newspaper. “For more than a month now, the senior senator from Kentucky has not cast a vote, has not appeared for the work of the chamber, and has not, in any provable or functional sense, represented the four and a half million people who sent him there.”
Pranksters go on hunt for Mitch McConnell placing ‘missing person’ posters around DChttps://t.co/kaqeLsTn2A
— The Independent (@Independent) July 29, 2026
The 84-year-old McConnell, who is not running for re-election, was hospitalized in mid-June, and there was no word on his condition for nearly a month after that. This led to conspiracy theories, from McConnell enemies on both the left and the pro-Trump right, that he was either secretly dead, or “brain dead,” or otherwise hiding a worse condition that his office had let on. Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, has also been pressured to appoint a replacement, although Kentucky law does not allow him to do so as long as McConnell is alive.
“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion,” McConnell said in a mid-July statement. “I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital.”
Photo courtesy of an X screenshot.
