Donald Trump has dismissed speculation that he is in ill health, saying he was busy on the Labor Day weekend giving media interviews and visiting his Virginia golf course.
“I was very active over the weekend,” Trump, 79, told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Asked about rumours on social media that he may have died, he called them “fake news”.
The president complained that he had done several news conferences last week “then I didn’t do any for two days and they said ‘there must be something wrong with him’.”
“It’s so fake. ‘Is he OK, how’s he feeling, what’s wrong?’”
Speculation about his health swirled on X over the weekend, with posts citing his lack of a public schedule late last week and a JD Vance interview in which the vice-president told USA Today he was confident the president was “in good shape” but suggested he was prepared to step in if anything happened to Trump.
Here’s the day’s Trump administration news at a glance.
Trump illegally deployed national guard to LA, court rules
A judge has found the Trump administration’s use of national guard troops during southern California immigration enforcement protests was illegal.
Judge Charles Breyer ruled on Tuesday that the administration violated federal law by sending troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids. The judge did not require the remaining troops withdrawn, however.
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware
US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone, including encrypted applications.
US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files
The US House of Representatives oversight committee released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein from the justice department.
The 33,000 pages included years-old court filings related to Epstein and his former associate Ghislaine Maxwell as well as what appears to be body-cam footage from police searches and police interviews.
The release on Tuesday comes as the Trump administration has been embroiled in months of controversy over its decision not to release additional files in the case.
Trump announces Space Command HQ will switch to Alabama from Colorado
Donald Trump made his first public appearance in a week on Tuesday to announce that the US Space Command (Spacecom) headquarters, which is tasked with leading national security operations in space, would be in the Republican stronghold of Alabama.
Flanked by Republican senators and members of Congress at a White House news conference, Trump said Huntsville, Alabama, would be the new location of the space command.
The move reverses a Biden administration decision to put the facility at its current temporary headquarters in Democratic-leaning Colorado.
Amy Coney Barrett defends US abortion ruling in memoir
The conservative supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett, whose controversial fast-track confirmation at the end of Trump’s first presidency led directly to the panel’s vote to strike down abortion rights nationally, has expressed in a new memoir her belief that the ruling “respected the choice” of the American people.
Barrett was paid a $2m advance for her book, Listening to the Law, according to CNN, which obtained a copy and published brief extracts on Tuesday, a week before its 9 September publication.
Catching up? Here’s what happened on 1 September 2025.