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US President Donald Trump said in a video on Twitter On Sunday night he planned a trip outside of Walter Reed Hospital, where he is being treated for covid-19.
“I’m not telling this to anyone else, but I’m planning a little surprise visit now.” “Maybe I’ll get there before they see me,” he told his followers.
Shortly after posting the greeting video, he took a walk through the square, to the applause of those present.
Since he was hospitalized with coronary heart disease, a group of supporters have stood outside with Trump flags and shown their support for the president.
Cheered out of the hospital
– reckless
While the trip was well received by Trump supporters outside the hospital, neither the press nor several doctors are impressed.
– Anyone in the vehicle during the trip completely unnecessary exactly, must be quarantined for 14 days. They can get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanding Trump to risk his life for a theater. This is crazy.
Writes Dr. James P. Phillips, who among other things is a physician at Walter Reed.
Phillips notes that the president’s car is not only bulletproof, it is also protected against chemical attack.
– The risk of covid-19 infection inside the car is as high as it can be, except during medical procedures. The irresponsibility is amazing. My thoughts are with the Secret Service, with whom he is forced to play games.
Elizabeth Landers, Vice News correspondent in Washington DC, writes that a Secret Service source reacts to video clips of Trump’s trip like this:
– So ruthless, careless and heartless.
Call this a fade
“Hermetically sealed car”
Jonathan Reiner, professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University, also responds:
– By taking a walk outside of Walter Reed, the president puts Secret Service agents in grave danger. When we are in close contact with a covid patient in the hospital, we dress in full infection control gear, he writes.
– This is the height of irresponsibility.
Reiner also writes that he will be following up on whether Trump’s physician, Sean P. Conley, will explain why the medical team thought it was “a good idea to put an infected patient in a hermetically sealed car with several Secret Service agents with a minimum protective equipment “.
– Your doctors should have said no. They must defend what is right. This is bad.
White House correspondents were not notified of the president’s campaign. According to CNN, it is very unusual for the press not to be present when the president moves.
The White House Correspondents Association receives harsh criticism in a statement:
– It is shocking that the president has left the hospital, even for a short time, in the middle of a health crisis, without a protected press corps present to ensure that the American people know where the president is and what he is doing. Now more than ever, the American public deserves independent coverage of the president, so they can be reliably informed about their health, says the association’s leader, Zeke Miller.
– I was very concerned
– Cash, but not guaranteed
That said, it can be seen in the footage from the trip that Trump himself was wearing a black face mask, while Secret Service agents in the car are wearing a medical gown, apparently N95 masks and a hard plastic mask over his eyes.
N95 masks are an effective barrier, but they are not an absolute guarantee to stop infection, especially in a small, closed room with an infected person, writes the New York Times.
Secret Service agents were also on the trip from the White House to the hospital on Friday, but it was a more serious situation. White House spokesman Judd Deere described Sunday’s campaign as a last-minute decision.
Jason Miller, the president’s election campaign advisor, defends the trip. CNN news anchor Ana Cabrera pressed him to question whether it was ruthless on the part of the president to put Secret Service agents at risk by driving in the car with a corona-infected patient.
Miller responded by saying that the president felt great yesterday and even better today, and that Trump “drove by and waved in a very confident way.”
The advisor also emphasized that the trip was not a stunt.
“This was President Trump who showed people that he is grateful for the hospitality that they have given him, the support that he has,” said Miller, who also noted that the Secret Service takes good care of its agents and always takes extra precautions.
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