This weekend he brought more questions than answers about President Donald Trump’s fitness as he fights COVID-19, despite two briefings from doctors treating him at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
While White House doctor Sean Conley presented positive evidence of Trump’s progress, he said Sunday that the president might be in a position to leave the hospital on Monday, but infectious disease experts said the main points he provided about the president’s remedy were indicative of a patient facing a severe case of coronavirus-induced disease.
Conley said Sunday that he had avoided the previous day whether Trump had gained additional oxygen because he sought to “reflect the president’s positive attitude. “Trump worked to assign a symbol of himself in smart fitness over the weekend, sharing photos of himself running in the hospital and posting videos in which he said he felt better and had “learned a lot about COVID. “
On Sunday, Trump made a brief trip in a van to greet the hospital’s outdoor supporters, a resolution widely condemned for endangering Secret Service agents. A doctor treating Walter Reed called it “madness. “
The weekend also brought more news about the positive effects of coronavirus control for some of those close to Trump, adding former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who helped Trump prepare for the presidential debate Tuesday and is now in the hospital with COVID-19. .
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President Donald Trump’s staff leader Mark Meadows said Monday that the president “continues to improve” On Sunday night.
“It continued overnight and is in a position to return to a general painting program,” Meadows told Fox News. “He will meet with his doctors and nurses this morning to do additional evidence of his progress. “
Echoing the comments made through the president’s doctors on Sunday, Meadows told Fox that “we are still sure he will return to the White House later in the day. “
Meadows later called “Fox
“This resolution may not be made until later in the day,” Meadows said.
– David Jackson
After President Donald Trump toured Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in a van on Sunday, many denounced the resolve to expose Secret Service agents in the vehicle with him to COVID-19.
While officials make protection recommendations that are accepted, the bottom line is that the president makes the call final.
“At the end of the day, our job is not to say ‘no’, it is to protect,” Patricia Beckford Acheson, who worked for then-Vice President George HW Bush’s protection team in the early 1980s, told USA TODAY.
Former Secret Service Director W. Ralph Basham said the challenge of fitness and protection posed by coronavirus is unprecedented.
“We are in uncharted waters, ” said Basham. ” We’ve never noticed it before. “
– John and Kevin Johnson
Trump’s SUV trip: If the president has a habit of the COVID-19 pandemic, can the Secret Service, or anyone else, prevent it?
President Donald Trump spent Monday’s early hours provoking a barrage of tweets, most commonly in capital letters, selling his candidacy for re-election.
“MASS REGULATION IS CUTTING. VOTE!” The president wrote in one of the tweets from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that has been fighting a COVID-19 case since Friday.
In more than 15 tweets before 7:15 a. m. EST, Trump declared various crusade slogans and political platforms, ending messages with “VOTE!”
SPACE FORCE. Vote!
Warily political parties have defended themselves against Trump’s tweet typhoon in hospitals.
“IF YOU WANT A PRESIDENT WHO REALLY PAYS TAXES, VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN,” tweeted Joe Lockhart, President Bill Clinton’s press secretary.
– David Jackson