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Miles Archer

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Sat Apr 4, 2026, 09:41 PM Saturday

In the words of the immortal Don Adams, A.K.A. Maxwell Smart, "MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH." [View all]

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White House Forced to Address Claims of Trump Health Crisis
HOLD YOUR HORSES
Administration officials aren’t having any of the gossip about the president’s health.

Julia Ornedo Reporter
Updated Apr. 4 2026 7:50PM EDT
Published Apr. 4 2026 6:43PM EDT

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-forced-to-address-claims-of-donald-trump-health-crisis-at-walter-reed-medical-center/

The White House was forced to step in after the rumor mill went into overdrive on Saturday to speculate about the health of President Donald Trump.

The administration went on the defensive after social media was set abuzz by unfounded whispers that the 79-year-old president was hospitalized at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, which followed a curious, days-long absence from the public eye.

“Deranged liberals cook up insane conspiracy theories when @POTUS goes 12 hours without speaking to press,” the White House’s rapid response account wrote on X. “(They said nothing when Biden routinely went 12 days without speaking to press) Fear not! President Trump literally never stops working.”

The rapid response account reposted CBS News’ Emma Nicholson, who reported that a Marine sentry was spotted outside the West Wing on Saturday afternoon. The presence of sentries signals that the president is in the West Wing or the Oval Office, as they are tasked with rotating shifts to guard the entrance.
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