President Donald Trump gave some rare praise to the press Friday night, though he pointed out that recent speculation he was in poor health, or even dead, was way off the mark.

Trump hosted a dinner at a renovated Rose Garden for congressional leaders, taking on a largely amicable tone throughout the night. He even ceded that the press had actually been "very good lately, except for one rumor that they spread."

"I did about eight press conferences … day after day after day. Then I missed one because I was in the Oval Office, and I also went out to the club because I had meetings at a club, and they saw that I was, and the rumor started, this horrible rumor that Trump is no longer with us," he said.

"They said ... I got to the club, 'Sir, are you okay? Are you okay?' The fake news

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