A stream of Jewish rabbis leaving the White House after a private Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump was followed by a fresh wave of extraordinary death rumours about the president, sending 'Trump' trending worldwide despite no evidence he had died.
The unusual sequence unfolded as social media users seized on a cryptic White House post, the absence of a public Trump event and Vice President JD Vance's announcement that he would take the podium for the administration's first briefing in 42 days.