Miranda Devine: The Dems launch more fake rumors about Trumps health but the president is at the top of his game
The day I went to the White House to interview President Trump, Democrats launched another fake rumor campaign about his health.First, bots fanned out on social media with lies that the president hadn’t been seen for “eight days” and had suffered a “stroke.”Then Rep.Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), the designated hit man on the House Foreign Relations Committee, spent almost six minutes of valuable hearing time on Wednesday “grilling” Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the president’s “health and cognitive abilities.”It really is chutzpah for the Biden Democrats to accuse the hardest-working, most energetic president of his generation of ill health in the very week that Jill Biden told everyone she thought Joe was having a “stroke” in his catastrophic debate against Trump last year.But I’m sorry to inform the ghouls that I spent an hour with the president Tuesday for an interview on Pod Force One, and he is more alert and focused than I have ever seen him.He was full of bonhomie when he burst into the Roosevelt Room a few minutes early with a guest in tow — Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, with whom he had just had a meeting in the Oval Office, since it was nine days before the start of the biggest World Cup soccer tournaments in history.He introduced Infantino, and we chatted about soccer, with the sports-loving president prompting the urbane Swiss-Italian for facts and figures — 104 games, 6 billion viewers and, unmentioned, tens of billions of dollars of additional economic activity for the US.Before the cameras rolled, Trump asked if I had seen the gigantic UFC arena currently being built on the South Lawn of the White House for the UFC Freedom 250 fight card on June 14, 2026, after which he jets off at midnight to the G7 in France.He was equally proud of his beautification of the nation’s capital, which is also impossible to miss.About 30 fountains and landmarks such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool have been cleaned and...