Fox’s Peter Doocy Confronts Trump: How Did You Find Out ‘You Were Dead?’

Fox’s Peter Doocy on Tuesday asked President Donald Trump about the social media speculation that he was in failing health or possibly dead.

Throughout much of the holiday weekend, social media had erupted with speculation that Trump hasn’t doing well physically. The speculation arose due to the fact that he hadn’t made any public appearances in several days — a rarity for the president. Press pool photographs caught glimpses of Trump golfing over the weekend, but those sightings were minimal.

On Tuesday afternoon, Trump put the speculation to rest when he appeared in the Oval Office announcing the relocation of the U.S. Space Command to Alabama.

When Trump took questions, Doocy was the first to bring up the social media rumor. Trump was mostly unfamiliar with it:

DOOCY: President Trump, something completely different, but about a big viral social media trend over the weekend. How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead? You see that?

TRUMP: No.

DOOCY: People didn’t see you for a couple of days. One-point-three million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.

TRUMP: Really? I didn’t see that. You know, I have heard — it’s sort of crazy — but last week I did numerous news conferences — all successful. They went very well like this is going very well; and then I didn’t do any for two days and they said, “There must be something wrong with him.” Biden wouldn’t do them for months, you wouldn’t see him, and nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him; and we know he wasn’t in the greatest of shape.

No, I heard that. I get reports. Now, you knew I did an interview that lasted for about an hour and a half with somebody and everybody saw that was on one of your competitors. I did numerous shows and also did a number of Truths, long Truths, I think pretty poignant Truths. No, I was very active over the weekend.

They also knew I went out to visit some people at the at the club that I own pretty nearby on the Potomac River. No, I’ve been very active actually over the weekend. I didn’t hear that one. That’s pretty serious. Well, it’s fake news. You know, it’s just so, it’s so fake. That’s why the media has so little credibility. I didn’t — I knew they were saying like, “Is he OK? How’s he feeling? What’s wrong?” I said, “I just left,” and it’s also sort of a longer weekend. You know, it’s Labor Day weekend, so I would say a lot of people — no, I was very active this Labor Day. I had heard that but I didn’t hear to that extent.

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