US President Donald Trump, hospitalized after testing positive for coronavirus, said he felt ” much better “ and promised he would be ” back soon “, in a video posted on his account Twitter Saturday, October 3, in the evening.
“I came here, I was not very well”, he said while being treated since Friday at the Walter Reed military hospital in the suburbs of Washington.
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“I had no other choice”
“I feel a lot better now, we are working hard to get me to fully recover. I think I’ll be back soon and can’t wait to finish the campaign the way I started ”, he added in this four-minute recording obviously filmed in a medical suite at the hospital, and in which he appears sitting at a table, in a jacket but without a tie, and slightly tired.
“We don’t know for the period of the next few days, I guess that’s the real test, so we’ll see what happens in the next few days”added the 74-year-old leader, who also justified his decision to continue the presidential campaign and hold large rallies in the midst of the pandemic, and as he regularly taunts his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, to campaign since his ” basement “.
“I had no other choice because I just didn’t want to stay in the White House”, he explains. “I had to get out (…). I cannot stay locked in an upstairs room and totally safe. (…) As a leader, you have to face problems. No great leader would ever have done this ”, he adds, implying to remain confined.
The US president also thanks the doctors and nurses who treat him as well as the world leaders and Americans who sent him their best wishes.
End the controversy
During the day, his personal physician, Sean Conley, announced that the 45e President of the United States was going ” very good ” and had been doing better and better since arriving at the hospital, but doubts remained.
A few minutes after Sean Conley’s intervention, a source with knowledge of his state of health gave Agence France-Presse (AFP) a much more alarmist description of the situation, declaring: “The President’s vital signs over the past twenty-four hours have been very disturbing, and the next forty-eight hours will be critical in terms of care. We still have not taken a clear path to recovery. “
This new video of the American president seems to want to put an end to any controversy over his state of health while the electoral campaign was upset by the hospitalization: his trips were canceled, his campaign manager was also contaminated, and uncertainty looms on upcoming televised debates, including the one supposed to pit their running mates, Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic Senator Kamala Harris, on Wednesday.
His team announced on Saturday that the campaign would continue yet “At full speed”, with trips from Mr. Pence and the Trump sons after the number two debate.
Cluster at the White House
The White House is linked to multiple contaminations. The list of relatives of Mr. Trump infected is growing: his wife Melania, his adviser Hope Hicks, his campaign manager Bill Stepien, three Republican senators, the former councilor Kellyanne Conway, the current councilor Chris Christie … Not to mention three accredited journalists.
One event grabs attention: Last Saturday, dozens of guests crowded the Presidency’s gardens and interior rooms for the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to a Supreme Court seat. The cameras caught a number of handshakes and hugs, most of the guests omitting the masks, a practice clearly erected among Republicans as a mark of loyalty.
The circumstances of Donald Trump’s contamination being unknown, it is impossible to know if he was contagious during the debate against Joe Biden last Tuesday evening in Cleveland. The two men spent over ninety minutes on the same stage. Joe Biden, 77, was negative on Friday, and he will retest on Sunday, he said on Saturday.
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