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“When I came here, I didn’t feel so good. Now I feel much better, “Donald Trump said in a video message from Walter Reed Military Hospital published Saturday night. It was the president’s first speech from a clinic.” The real test “will come in the next few days, he said. president in his message, but added: “I think I’ll be back soon.”
At the beginning of the weekend, his doctors and the White House sent mixed messages. The statements of the doctors are not independent analyzes. Many Americans are skeptical that the White House and Trump have consistently made false and misleading statements on other issues.
What do the doctors say?
If he continues to do as well as before, he could possibly be released tomorrow Monday, according to a Sunday night press conference. He is up and now spending “a lot of time out of bed.” The president’s oxygen levels had dropped twice briefly in recent days, he had been treated with steroids and was on a ventilator for an hour. That sounded different shortly before.
The president “had not yet cleared the mountain,” his personal physician Sean Conley had announced Sunday night. However, he had already worked on Saturday and received a second dose of the substance remdesivir, which was initially developed as an anti-Ebola drug. On Sunday night, Conley said, looking at the speculation circulating, that “he had not tried to hide anything.” Rather, it was more important for him to reflect the “optimistic attitude” of Trump and his medical team.
Previously, there had been confusion about the timing of Trump’s Covid diagnosis. The US media also reports that Donald Trump was angry with his chief of staff Mike Meadows. He had said at the beginning of the weekend that Trump’s condition had been “very worrying” in the past 24 hours.
Trump during the speech from his hospital room
Since when is there talk of dismissal?
Surprisingly, the doctors speculated on this on Sunday afternoon. Presumably his treatment could continue in the White House, he said. But: Trump is 74 years old, slightly overweight at 110 kilograms, and therefore a risk patient. When he was admitted to the military hospital on Friday, there was initially talk of a “few days” stay. Doctors speak of a critical phase of seven to ten days after a Covid infection. If Trump were infected during the presentation of his Supreme Court candidate on September 26 in the Rose Garden of the White House, this phase would end on Tuesday. In the event of an infection during the helicopter flight with his infected advisor Hope Hicks on Wednesday, this phase would be reached later this week.
Can Trump attend rallies?
Not at the moment, all appointments have been canceled. It is also unclear whether Trump will be able to complete the second television matchup with his challenger Joe Biden on October 15. Time is running out, the elections will be held on November 3, in less than a month. To replace the locomotive of the Trump election campaign, his sons and Vice President Mike Pence are now going to step in.
Trump’s election campaign team called the weekend “Operation MAGA,” based on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” with which Trump came to the White House four years ago. The president said in his video message that he wanted to “end the campaign as it began.” That means it would fly from state to state just before the election, holding at least one demonstration a day. Will that work? Currently uncertain.
Who else tested positive?
Eight single people who came to the rose garden on September 26: Donald and Melania Trump, Republican Senators Mike Lee and Thom Tillis, former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the president of the private Catholic university Notre Dame, John Jenkins and an unidentified correspondent. Most of the more than 150 participants in the event did not wear a mask and gave up the safety distance. Movies are circulating online showing Senator Lee hugging other guests.
Will Trump change his way of dealing with Corona?
Trump has been downplaying the virus for months, knowing full well its danger, and though he himself has lost friends as a result of Corona. Trump had politicized the use of the mask. For this reason, masks are rarely used in Republican states; only a few visitors did so at Trump’s rallies.
“So exciting, the adrenaline pumping through my body, so much love”
Donald Trump is in the hospital with a corona infection. But your health should be good. The White House paints the picture of a fit president. WELT reporter Steffen Schwarzkopf describes the atmosphere in front of the hospital.
There is a real anti-mask culture in the White House. However, it is unlikely that Trump will now change his course so close to the elections (with more than 208,000 victims and 7.3 million infections). If he recovers soon, you could combine this with the message: Look, I defeated the virus. How is that passed on to the millions of Americans who have lost family and friends? It’s not clear.
What is Vice President Mike Pence doing?
He has been at his residence in Washington for a few days, avoiding the White House. The vice president and his wife recently tested negative for Corona. It should undergo further testing. Pence would replace Trump if he could no longer serve. Basically, in the event of the president’s death, he would rise in office. It is regulated in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
A total of eight vice presidents have replaced the president after his death in American history, the last time in 1963: Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded the shooting of John F. Kennedy. Gerald Ford inherited Richard Nixon in 1974 when he resigned. Pence wants to replace election activist Trump this week. He had announced a rally in Arizona for Thursday.
When will the next climax of the election campaign follow?
If foreseeable, next Wednesday night in Salt Lake City (state of Utah). The only television debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic Vice Candidate Kamala Harris is scheduled for 7 pm local time (Thursday morning at 3 am CEST). The debate now carries more weight than originally supposed. Pence would succeed Trump as president if the worst happens. If Democrat Joe Biden, 77, wins the election, it should be immediately publicly discussed whether and how his Vice President Harris will inherit it. In the case of Biden’s election victory, he would be 78 years old at the inauguration in January 2021, making him the oldest president in American history.
What is Joe Biden doing?
On Sunday he had no appointment to make at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Otherwise, Biden has recently expanded his election campaign, he had appeared several times, he was always wearing a mask, most recently even while speaking. She is touring key states and wants to perform for the first time in a long time with Kamala Harris, her vice presidential candidate, in Arizona on Thursday.
Biden’s election campaign now encourages his supporters to announce the candidate at the front doors (with masks). This is a departure from the strategy of one month of total physical distance. The Trump campaign asked Biden on Sunday why he was doing this “after you said for months that it was dangerous to knock on doors.” Eric, Trump’s son, said Saturday: “Biden wishes he had only a hundredth of the talent that my father has right now.”
What do the polls say?
There are no reliable national polls yet after the Trump infection became known. It is difficult to reliably predict the effects of the president’s illness on electoral behavior. Trump could benefit from a pity effect, or continue to lose credibility in his handling of the crown crisis. In national polls, Biden is currently around eight percentage points ahead of Trump, and the trend is increasing recently. The latest NBC and “Wall Street Journal” poll sees Biden at 53 percent, Trump at 39 percent. Citizens were questioned before Trump’s infection became known.
