President Trump this week said he hadn’t heard the rumors about his death over Labor Day weekend until a reporter brought it up in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

But his eldest son, who was aware of the claims going viral on social media , said even he called his dad on Saturday to make sure he was OK.

“I called my father over the weekend to be like, ‘ Hey, just want to make sure you’re not dead,’ ” Donald Trump Jr. said during a Wednesday interview with right-wing cable network Newsmax .

Speculation about the 79-year-old president’s demise went viral on Saturday thanks to a few days of unusual radio silence combined with a four-day stretch of no public events on his schedule .

Trump Jr. said he reached out to his father over the weekend while the president was golfing with hi

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