Ever wonder how Donald Trump could jump from his sickbed with a rather serious case of the COVID-19 virus to Air Force One a week later? People who talk about their coronavirus experience often speak of three months until they are in a full recovery. Apparently, it has taken a toll on POTUS after all, aides are walking on eggshells.
Exactly seven days after going to the Walter Reed Military Medical Center, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson asked Trump in a remote interview if he has been retested for COVID-19. The president responded, according to The Associated Press (AP):
‘I have been retested, and I haven’t even found out numbers or anything yet. But I’ve been retested, and I know I’m at either the bottom of the scale or free.’
In a separate AP interview, Dr. Fauci commented:
‘Let me just tell you what the CDC guidelines are for getting people to be able to go back into society. It generally is 10 days from the onset of your symptoms.’
Donald Trump held a private call to staffers on Monday and said he did not mind if some reporters listened in to it. He said he was ‘going to win.” Then, he issued their walking orders, the New Civil Rights Movement wrote:
‘Work your assess off.’
2020 Campaign Reporter for Bloomberg News Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou tweeted:
‘Trump quotes from the campaign staff call: “work your asses off” “people of tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots” “these are sick people” “these people have become deranged” “they couldn’t give a shit about it” ignore the “bullshit”‘
Trump told staffers to just “ignore the bullshit,” and said he would fire international virology expert Dr. Anthony Fauci for going on television for being “a bomb,” except firing him would create “a bigger bomb:”
CNN White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins said:
‘Trump: ‘Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths. Later he said it would be “700,000 or 800,000.” If there’s a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn’t care less.”‘
Senior White House Journalist for Bloomberg News Jennifer Jacobs tweeted:
‘Trump irritably says he told his campaign staff to ignore the bullshit. He says @BillStepien @JasonMillerinDC @chefjclark are “doing a great job.” “So get off this phone and work your asses off because the fact is we’re going to win,” Trump says on campaign call.’
Washington Correspondent for the Australian New Yorker Ebony Bowden tweeted:
‘On campaign staff call just now, President Trump says he plans to do five rallies a day leading up to election. “We are going to win. I wouldn’t have told you that maybe two or three weeks ago,” he says, admitting it wasn’t easy to go from hospital back to campaign trail.’
Twitter world took off after that. Here are some of our favorite responses below:
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