President Trump returned to public view on Tuesday after a weeklong break from appearances led to wild online speculation he was sick — or in the case of some baseless posts, even dead.

Trump was asked directly about reports he was dead during an Oval Office appearance discussing his decision to move Space Command to Alabama.

Trump, 79, responding to Fox News’s Peter Doocy, said he’d heard about the speculation that he was ill but hadn’t seen reports he was dead. Trump then called such reports “fake news.”

“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 said.

“No, I was very active over

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