President Donald Trump said in a new video posted on Saturday that he “did not feel so well” when he was admitted to a military hospital where he is receiving treatment for Covid-19, but that he felt “much better” and hoped to return soon. complete this re-election campaign.
Trump acknowledged, however, that the “real test” is yet to come, in the coming days. A senior Trump administration official has said that the next 48 hours will be “critical in terms of his care” and added, contrary to the optimistic image conveyed by the president’s doctor, “we are not yet on a clear path to a full recovery. “. . “
The president received supplemental oxygen on Friday after his oxygen levels fell, which in part prompted the decision to airlift him to Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, in the contiguous state of Maryland.
The president tried to portray his hospitalization as a brave decision. “I had no choice because I just didn’t want to stay in the White House,” Trump said. “They gave me that alternative. Stay in the White House, lock yourself in, don’t ever leave, don’t even go to the Oval Office. Stay upstairs and enjoy it. Don’t see people, don’t talk to people, and get rid of it.
“I can’t do that, I had to be up front,” he added. “We have to face the problems. As a leader, you have to face problems. There has never been a great leader who would have done it. “
President Trump spoke of his administration’s efforts to help develop therapies and vaccines and mentioned that he was already on one of the therapies. He received a single dose injection of an antibody cocktail prior to his hospitalization. and has since started a five-day Remdesivir course.
The president seemed eager to get back into the campaign and said he hoped “to be back soon” and hoped “to finish the campaign, the way it started and the way we’ve been doing the kind of numbers that” I’ve been doing .
Trump, in fact, was behind Joe Biden, his Democratic rival, by a wide margin in national polls and has failed to bridge the gap despite his best efforts to portray Biden as mentally inadequate for work, and being weak in law and order and “Trojan Horse” for progressives in the Democratic Party.
With the president in the hospital for now, his campaign launched “Operation MAGA (short for Make American Great Again, the campaign slogan)” on Saturday, a plan to continue without him. Vice President Mike Pence will take the lead at election events in person, but only after Oct. 7, when he debates Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival.
“Operation MAGA will ignite the entire MAGA universe to keep President Trump’s campaign at full throttle until our Commander-in-Chief returns to the campaign,” Bill Stepien, Trump 2020 campaign manager, said in a statement. Stepien has also tested positive and is working remotely.
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