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- A source familiar with the president’s health made an assessment that indicated that “the president’s vital signs during the last 24 hours were very worrying.”
- The statement appeared to disagree with an assessment by White House doctors that the president was “very well” and was labeled “contradictory.”
- White House doctors later said that Trump was “up and moving” while undergoing Covid-19 treatment and his symptoms are improving.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Saturday that Donald Trump’s health, including a drop in his blood oxygen level, had left the president’s doctors “very concerned” but had improved and that there was never a risk that he would have to hand over power. .
Meadows’ comments to Fox News capped a day of comings and goings in which conflicting reports on the president’s health created a murky understanding of the leader’s actual fitness.
“He has made incredible improvements since yesterday morning, when I know that several of us, the doctor and I, were very concerned,” Meadows said.
Earlier in the day, a source familiar with the president’s health – later named in the US media as none other than Meadows – had given a contradictory assessment saying that “the president’s vital signs over the past 24 hours were very concerning.” .
The statement also appeared to contradict an assessment by White House doctors that the president “was doing very well.”
Meadows appeared to clarify Saturday night that the worryingly poor health-related comments had applied to the day before.
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“Yesterday morning, we were very concerned … he had a fever and his blood oxygen level had dropped rapidly,” Meadows told Fox.
However, “there was never a consideration and not even a risk of a power transition,” Meadows said.
Late Saturday, White House physician Sean Conley said Trump “was not out of the woods yet,” but that the medical team was “cautiously optimistic.”
Meadows echoed a similar sentiment, stating that it was “very, very optimistic, based on current results.”
The president posted a video on Twitter late Saturday in which he appeared relaxed in an open-necked shirt and blue jacket, telling viewers that he would “be back soon,” but acknowledging that the next crucial days would be “the true test. “
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