Four years ago, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had to briefly interrupt her campaign on September 11 after suffering from the onset of pneumonia. A whole ordeal took shape for President Donald Trump, Friday, October 2, after hospitalization following symptoms related to Covid-19. Campaign meetings scheduled for Friday in Florida and Saturday in Wisconsin have been canceled. No one knows when the Republican candidate will be able to take them back, or even if he will be able to participate in the next scheduled debate with Democrat Joe Biden, on October 15, in Miami. This debate was initially to be held in Michigan before being rescheduled due to the epidemic.
A fight is the metaphor used by two children of the President of the United States on Friday to comment on their father’s hospitalization. “You are a warrior and you will triumph”, assured her eldest daughter Ivanka after a similar message from her brother Eric. After the announcement of the positive test of the president and his wife, on the night of Thursday to Friday, the doctor of the White House, Sean Conley, was nevertheless confident. “The President and the First Lady are doing well at the moment and plan to stay at home in the White House while they recover”, he had assured in a press release.
“As a measure of extreme precaution”
The same message was given on Friday morning by the chief of staff President Mark Meadows and then spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany, though the former reported “Mild symptoms” before ensuring that Donald Trump kept “Good morale”. This optimistic presentation of the situation, reduced to the scant information distilled by the White House as the president’s Twitter account remained silent, was shattered with the announcement of his transfer to the Walter Reed Military Hospital in Bethesda, in the suburbs. north of the federal capital, officially “As a measure of extreme precaution”.
Donald Trump got there by helicopter despite the short distance. Before climbing aboard Marine One, masked, for his first public appearance since the announcement of his contamination, the president briefly greeted the journalists, the thumbs up, without exchanging a word as he does regularly. He broadcast a short video when he arrived at the hospital, filmed in one of the salons of the presidential residence.
“I want to thank everyone for your incredible support (…). I think I’m doing great, but we’ll make sure things go well ”, said the president in this recording. His spokesperson referred to a period of ” A few days “, on the recommendation of medical experts. It will be carried out within a permanent unit reserved for the president.
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