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WASHINGTON -- Sometimes it feels similar hardly an hr tin spell by without proceeding from President Donald Trump. So erstwhile helium didn't look for 1 day, past two, past three, speculation started to swirl online astir his health.
Not adjacent a fewer glimpses of the president visiting his play people implicit the play were capable to stanch the societal media rumor mill fueled by governmental opponents. Trump was asked straight astir it Tuesday astatine his archetypal nationalist lawsuit successful a week.
"How did you find retired implicit the play that you were dead?" asked Fox News' Peter Doocy. "Did you spot that?"
"No," the 79-year-old Trump responded flatly. The senators and medication officials gathered astir him for the Space Command office announcement shifted their value and smiled.
The president said helium wasn't alert that radical were wondering if helium had died, but helium had heard determination were concerns astir his health.
"I knew they were saying, like: 'Is helium OK? How is helium feeling? What's wrong?'" Trump said, calling the speculation "fake news" and saying helium "was precise progressive implicit the weekend."
Recently, Trump has been seen with bruising connected the backmost of his close hand, sometimes poorly concealed with makeup, and swelling astir his ankles.
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The White House has said Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, which means veins successful the legs can't decently transportation humor backmost to the heart, causing it to excavation successful the little legs. It's a reasonably communal information for older adults.
As acold arsenic the bruising, property caput Karoline Leavitt said it's from "frequent handshaking and the usage of aspirin," which Trump takes regularly to trim the hazard of bosom onslaught and stroke.
Trump pointed retired Tuesday that helium gave a fewer interviews during the days erstwhile helium wasn't appearing publicly, positive helium was posting connected Truth Social, his societal media site. He wrote immoderate "long Truths," arsenic the posts are known, and immoderate "pretty poignant Truths."
In 1 of those posts, from Sunday, helium said helium "NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE."
In the past, Trump has been little than transparent astir his health.
After helium announced his archetypal campaign, successful 2015, helium released a hyperbolic missive from his doc saying "his carnal spot and stamina are extraordinary" and helium would beryllium "the healthiest idiosyncratic ever elected to the presidency."
In 2020, the White House withheld immoderate details astir Trump's hospitalization with COVID-19, specified arsenic a concerning driblet successful his humor oxygen levels. It was aboriginal revealed that the president was overmuch sicker than the White House fto on.
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