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Is the president of the United States “okay” now? Or is his condition “worrisome,” as Chief of Staff Meadows puts it? Trump tries to create clarity with a video.
The White House released this photo of Trump on Saturday. It is intended to underline that the president of the United States is doing well and is doing his job.
Photo: Joyce N. Boghosian / The White House via Keystone
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, thanks in a video broadcast on Saturday night all the good wishes that have come to him. His voice sounds a bit shaky, his hair isn’t as straight as usual, he’s not wearing a tie, and overall he looks like someone who has quickly wriggled out of his hospital bed behind a desk for this video. The message is clear: Trump wants to calm down. He wants to show that he is doing well so far. And that his wife Melania is fine, that like him he has caught the corona virus.
This message seemed important to him and to the White House on a day when communication between the medical team and the White House proved, to put it mildly, in need of improvement.
Contradictory statements about Trump’s health
In any case, the White House irritated Saturday with conflicting messages about the acute and past health of the president, who is now due to spend his second night in the hospital.
Around noon, Trump met Personal Physician Sean Conley with nine other doctors at the wake in front of Walter Reed Military Hospitalto give the world news on the history of Trump’s illness. What he had to say sounded like the president was struggling with little more than a few flu symptoms. “We are very happy with the progress the president is making,” he said. Trump is doing “very well.”
Trump’s personal physician, Sean Conley, appeared in front of the media Saturday with nine other physicians at the wake. (October 3, 2020)
Photo: Ken Cedeño (Reuters)
But then Conley said that Trump’s corona diagnosis was “72 hours ago.” Which caused quite a stir. Consequently, Trump would have tested positive for the first time on Wednesday. And not until Thursday night. And then Trump reportedly went to a donation dinner on his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, fully aware of being infected.
Later, Conley corrected himself in a warning. I wanted to say “day three”. Including Thursday as the day of diagnosis.
Trump: “I think I’ll be back soon”
But that was still harmless compared to the vortex caused a little later by the appearance of Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows. When he left the hospital, he told reporters present that Trump’s vital signs were “worrisome.” He warned that the “next 48 hours will be crucial” for the course of the disease. “We are not yet on a clear path to a full recovery.”
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows visits reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump at Walter Reed Military Hospital. (October 3, 2020)
Photo: Susan Walsh (Keystone)
Meadows had promised reporters an update when it arrived, but asked not to be mentioned by name. Therefore, his statements in the US media were initially only attributed to a person who knew the health of the president. However, Meadows Request was videotaped and the video was posted on the internet. The source of the comparatively sober summary of Trump’s condition was clear.
Trump is said to have been beside himself, the US media write. Shortly after Meadow’s remarks were read everywhere, Trump tweeted: “I’m fine!” In the evening, the President of the United States posted his four-minute reassuring video. He admitted that “it hadn’t felt so good.” But now it is “much better”. “I think I’ll be back soon and I hope to finish the campaign as we started it,” he said. However, he also stated that “the real test” is still ahead. Which is roughly what his chief of staff said. In other words, Trump has not yet passed the critical point.
