Walz ripped for 'vile' comment on future 'news' about Trump's health: 'What a monster'

"Look I get it, you get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things, although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news," Walz said at a Labor Day picnic in Duluth on Monday, eliciting a laugh from the crowd in a reference to recent online conspiracy theories about Trump's health with some claiming that he had died. 

"Just saying, just saying, there will be news sometime, just so you know, there will be news."

Many on social media took issue with Walz's statement alleging he was wishing ill on the president, who has faced two assassination attempts.

Fox News Digital reached out to Walz's office for comment. 

"People get tired of it," Walz said. "I get tired of myself at times."

Trump sought to dispel swirling social media rumors about his health Tuesday, saying he was "very active" over the Labor Day weekend.

"I didn't do anything for two days, and they said 'there must be something wrong with him,'" Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, describing the speculation about his death as "fake news."

"You wouldn't see him (Biden) and nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him," Trump said. "And we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape." 

Fox News Digital's Amanda Macias contributed to this report