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Donald Trump at work at Walter Reed Hospital. Image: keystone
Big confusion about Trump’s condition: how sick is the president really?
Donald Trump’s health was apparently “very worrying.” But there is little reliable information, and the president’s personal physician avoided important questions.
Donald Trump reported Saturday night by video message from the hospital and spoke about his health. Now he is “much better,” the president said in the four-minute speech. When he got to the hospital, “he didn’t feel very well.” The “real proof” is yet to come in the next few days.
The at-risk patient looks a bit battered in the video, but shows no major respiratory problems. But after the first two days of Trump’s stay in the hospital, the question arises: How sick is the president really? Communication between the White House and Walter Reed Hospital was so chaotic that one has to wonder if Trump was sicker than he admits.
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The personal physician causes confusion
On Saturday afternoon (local time), Trump’s personal physician, Sean Conley, gave information to the media. However, there was no clarity on the health status of the man 74 years later. On the contrary. Conley said the president was doing “very well” and that the team was satisfied with his progress. But the doctor avoided important questions. Media workers wanted to know if Trump had received additional oxygen. Conley simply replied that this is not currently the case.
Conley went on to say that Trump has not had a fever in 24 hours. How high this was before, she didn’t say.
The fact that the doctor spoke of a diagnosis 72 hours ago also caused confusion. Trump appeared at a fundraising event in New Jersey on Thursday. He held a campaign rally in Minnesota Wednesday night. If Conley’s 72-hour statement is correct, Trump already knew about his infection at lunchtime Wednesday and not Friday.
But Conley contradicted himself: Elsewhere, he said the positive test result was available Friday night. Then the public was also informed.
Here again the question arises as to when Trump’s last test came back negative. It usually takes several days for a crown patient to show symptoms such as fever. However, according to the White House, Trump undergoes tests several times a day. Conley also did not want to answer the question about the last negative test result. The White House explanations just didn’t work, health expert Leana Wen told CNN.
The chief of staff annoyed Trump
As if Conley’s unsatisfactory press conference hadn’t already raised enough suspicion, a little later another troubling report turned around. Several US media quoted a well-informed source at lunchtime Saturday as saying that the president’s values over the past 24 hours had been “very worrying.” The next 48 hours are crucial.
It was later revealed that the well-informed source was Mark Meadows. Meadows is Trump’s chief of staff and spent Friday through Saturday night with the president at the hospital. The videos show Meadows briefing reporters shortly after the personal physician’s press conference.
On Saturday night, Meadows also spoke to the Fox News television station. He said Trump had a fever Friday morning and the oxygen in his blood had “dropped rapidly.” He and the doctors were “very concerned.” Still, the president was awake and walking.
Trump is said to be not entirely satisfied with the remarks of his chief of staff. The president is angry at Meadows, the Washington Post reports, citing a senior employee.
According to the statements of Meadows, the American population now at least knows that Trump is seriously ill, or at least he was. But the president leaves his compatriots in the dark about many things.
