Donald Trump was released from hospital and returned to the White House
The US president has announced his intention to resume the campaign for his re-election “soon” and called for not to be afraid of the virus.
Continuation and end of the coronavirus episode for Donald Trump? Hospitalized Friday, October 2, the American president has raised many questions in recent days. If his doctor, Sean Conley, had wanted to be reassuring, dissonant voices were heard over the weekend. But Donald Trump left the hospital on Monday, around 6:40 p.m. (12:40 a.m. French time). The President of the United States, impatient to give at least the image of a candidate mobilized by his campaign 29 days before the election seeing him run for a second term, will therefore have been hospitalized for three days since his admission on Friday evening, less than 24 hours after testing positive for Covid-19.
Mask on his face, striped tie, the US president walked through the gilded doors of Walter Reed Military Hospital in Bethesda, suburb of Washington, descended a few steps and gave a thumbs up before getting into a black vehicle. The leader subsequently returned to the White House by helicopter. After having climbed a few steps and regained the balcony of the presidential residence, he raised his thumb in the direction of the journalists and ostensibly took off his mask, in defiance of the rules decreed by the health authorities. With his face uncovered, visibly tense, he then greeted the soldiers present in the gardens of the White House and posed for the photographers, before returning to his apartments.
"Do not be afraid of the Covid"
Shortly before, the Republican billionaire had announced his intention to resume the campaign “soon” for his re-election. The White House doctor, Sean Conley, however, warned that the American president, who will have been hospitalized for three days since his admission Friday evening, is "perhaps not yet completely out of the woods". He said the medical team, "cautiously optimistic", would not be totally relieved for a week.
Donald Trump took the opportunity to defend once again his management of the pandemic, criticized from all sides. “Don't be afraid of the Covid. Don't let him dominate your life, ”he hammered on Twitter. “We have developed, under the Trump administration, good medicine and good knowledge. “For several days, the number of positive cases for Covid-19 has continued to increase in the Trump administration, and the famous“ West Wing ”has been emptying, as a health precaution. The last collaborator of the president to have learned of her contamination, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany announced on Monday that she had placed herself in quarantine.
"Get out, be careful"
In a video message posted on Twitter Monday evening, Donald Trump also called on Americans to “get out” while being “careful”, despite the more than 200,000 deaths due to the pandemic in the country. "Do not be afraid of it, you will beat it", he declared, before adding "go out, be careful". Regarding his own hospitalization, the Republican president, who said he was possibly “immune”, explained: “I was on the front line, I set an example. "
His rival in the race for the White House Joe Biden reacted to the reassuring words of Donald Trump. “I saw a tweet he made, they showed it to me, he said 'Don't let the Covid rule your life'. Go tell that to the 205,000 families who have lost someone, ”the visibly angry former US vice president said on local Florida channel, Local 10.
