Miranda Devine: The Dems launch more fake rumors about Trump’s 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.

Beautification project

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 refurbished, ­Union Station is gleaming, homeless encampments cleared away.

Trump deserves to boast because the nation’s capital is sparkling just in time for America’s 250th-anniversary celebrations.

There should be bipartisan ­rejoicing, but when it comes to Trump, his detractors will never concede an ounce of goodness.

The president keeps all these beautification projects in his head, along with detailed plans for the new ballroom and its embedded suite of high-tech national security measures, most deep underground, all of it of benefit mostly to his successors.

While managing two wars and a $30 trillion economy, serving as commander in chief of the world’s most powerful military, keeping 340 million people safe and secure, negotiating with foreign leaders, shaping trade and energy policy, appointing judges, serving as commander-in-chief of the world’s most powerful military, guiding his Cabinet, writing executive orders, cajoling members of Congress to progress his agenda, planning events for America’s 250, involving himself in the minutiae of Republican politics, endorsing candidates, answering his cellphone to all comers at all hours, writing his own pithy Truth Social posts that move markets and message world leaders, critiquing the on-camera performance of his team, closely observing their interpersonal relations in meetings, keeping up his golf game, maintaining a vibrant family life, and who knows what else, he still makes time to answer questions from reporters.

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When the cameras rolled on our interview Tuesday afternoon, the president was brisk and efficient.

Ever the TV pro, he briefly checked a screen to see if his hair and tie were neat, requested the lights be dimmed slightly, and then for 45 minutes nonstop effortlessly answered questions without advance notice from all over the map — making news on foreign policy, domestic policy, geopolitics, the economy, giving a history lesson on Teddy Roosevelt and Davy Crockett, and hilariously on-point pen portraits of a variety of Democratic candidates in races across the country, and even doing a Joe Biden impression.

Then he was up and gone to his next meeting in the Situation Room, and on and on all day and into the night.

Some days he doesn’t leave the Oval Office until after midnight, and peppers Cabinet members with calls as late as 2 a.m. and as early as 5 a.m.

There are never ground rules for our interviews, no anxious minders asking what topics I’d broach, or ruling certain questions off-limits.

Trump was as frank and transparent as he always has been.

Lack of guile

Even when he avoids answering questions he doesn’t like, he is relatively guileless, filibustering on a different pet topic “the election was stolen” until the questioner moves on, or sometimes doing “the weave,” in which he talks about something he likes before returning briefly to the topic he was asked about.

It’s all calculated and a far more entertaining and informative dance than interviews with any other politician on the planet.

For instance, he was happy to confirm that he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “f–king crazy” during a fiery phone call the previous day, because he was “a little bit perturbed at [Netanyahu] constantly fighting with Lebanon.”

But he said they remain friends and have “worked very well together.”

Trump unveiled his new nickname for his opponents, “The Dumocrats,” and crisply summed up the Maine Senate race.

Dem candidate Graham Platner is a “major sleazebag.”

Republican incumbent Susan Collins is ­“always down in the polls, and she survives.”

Texas Senate Democratic candidate James Talarico “is horrible with the six genders . . . and vegan in Texas doesn’t work. He’s heavy vegan.”

The president scoffed at Jill Biden’s claim this week that she had never seen Biden malfunction as he did during the debate.

Like everyone in the country, Trump wondered why, if she thought her husband was suffering a life-threatening health event, “why would she bring him to a Waffle House if he had a stroke?”

He said Biden simply “choked.”

From high to low, the president is nothing if not a versatile and inexhaustible source of news.

A gift to reporters.

High-energy leader

The day after our interview, ­Rubio described his boss’ prodigious energy levels, which are evident to anyone who has ever seen the 79-year-old president in action.

“The truth of the matter is, we had a cognitively impaired president in office a few years ago,” ­Rubio told Lieu.

“I’ve been on foreign trips with the president, and he doesn’t sleep the whole flight, and . . . he’s wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to. So I don’t know what you’re referring to, but he has an incredible amount of energy,” he said.

“I’m just telling you, you may not like his policies, you may not like the decisions he’s made, but I assure you, this is not a president that sleeps or is cognitively impaired in any way, shape or form, and in fact is incredibly active, much more so than much younger people that are around him.”

Lieu humiliated himself with his rancid lies.

The party of Biden was projecting again.

But eventually, like the emperor who has no clothes, the lies are so absurd that nobody ever believes another word they say.