President Donald Trump on Saturday addressed his health and defended his actions in the lead up to his Covid-19 diagnosis in a video recorded from a Walter Reed hospital room.
“I just didn’t want to stay in the White House. I was given that alternative,” Trump said in the video he tweeted. “Stay in the White House, lock yourself in, don’t ever leave, don’t even go to the Oval Office, just stay upstairs and enjoy it. Don’t see people, don’t talk to people and just be done with it, and I can’t do that.”
He said he’s feeling “much better,” after being admitted Friday to the Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda.
“I came here, wasn’t feeling so well, I feel much better now. We’re working hard to get me all the way back, I have to be back because we still have to make America great again."
The president, who was not wearing a tie and looked paler than usual in the over 4-minute address, said being admitted to Walter Reed was a way to “confront problems” of the diagnosis.
Trump also commented on the first lady’s health, saying Melania is handling the diagnosis “very nicely.”
“As you’ve probably read she’s slightly younger than me, just a little tiny bit and therefore just we know the disease, we know the situation with age versus younger people, and Melania is handling it statistically like it’s supposed to be handled,” he said.
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