Reporter Presses Trump On Crazy Rumor: ‘How Did You Find Out Over The Weekend That You Were Dead?’

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy got a strange look from President Donald Trump — and a chuckle from Vice President JD Vance — when he asked the president point blank about the rumors of his death that had circulated over the weekend.

During an Oval Office event on Tuesday afternoon, Doocy pressed Trump to reveal when and how he’d come to find out that he’d died over the weekend.

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President Trump just SLAMMED his critics who wished him dead after not having a news conference for TWO DAYS!

"I didn't do any for two days, and they said there must be something wrong with him."

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“How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?” Doocy asked, prompting a quick sideways glance from the president, but no other change in his expression. Vance, standing behind Trump and to his left, was clearly amused by the question.

“Did you see that?” Doocy pressed on as Trump said he hadn’t. “People didn’t see you for a couple of days, 1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.”

Vance shook his head, still smiling, and only then did Trump’s eyebrows raise: “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.’”

Trump then pivoted to compare his busy schedule to that of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, who routinely went weeks without speaking directly to the press.

“Biden didn’t do ’em for MONTHS!” he exclaimed, prompting laughs around the room as he continued, “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.”