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

Trump says he was ‘very active over the weekend’ and swipes at speculation ‘there must be something wrong with him’ – key US politics stories from Tuesday 2 September

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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