Overview
- An official schedule lists an Oval Office announcement for 2 p.m. ET, following days of online claims that the president had died.
- Trump denied the rumors on Truth Social, saying he has never felt better, and was photographed heading to golf over the weekend.
- The White House attributes hand bruising and swollen ankles to frequent handshakes, aspirin use, and chronic venous insufficiency, with recent routine tests reported as normal.
- A brief half‑staff flag order to honor Minneapolis shooting victims and a reported spike in the so‑called Pentagon Pizza Index were wrongly read by some as crisis signals.
- New viral footage of objects tossed from a White House window was described by a spokesperson as work by a contractor performing routine maintenance, as outlets note no concrete evidence of undisclosed illness and some figures continue to press for more medical transparency.