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Trump news at a glance: president shrugs off ill health rumours as ‘fake news’

Donald Trump speaking in the Oval Office
Donald Trump has complained that he didn’t do any news conferences ‘for two days’ and then people are saying ‘is he OK, how’s he feeling, what’s wrong?’ Photograph: Al Drago/EPA

Donald Trump has dismissed speculation that he is in ill health, saying he was busy on the Labor Day weekend giving media interviews and visiting his Virginia golf course.

“I was very active over the weekend,” Trump, 79, told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Asked about rumours on social media that he may have died, he called them “fake news”.

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