CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “But this [getting coronavirus] was something that happened, and it’s happened to millions of people all over the world. And I’m fighting for them, not just in the U.S., I’m fighting for them all over the world. We’re going to beat this coronavirus, or whatever you want to call it, and we’re going to beat it soundly. So many things have happened…
But I had no choice, because I just didn’t want to stay in the White House. I was given that alternative, ‘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, I had to be out front.”
-Donald Trump via Daniel Politi, “Trump Says He Is ‘Starting to Feel Good’ in Video From Walter Reed,” slate.com, Oct. 3, 2020
[Note: Donald Trump was being treated for coronavirus as a patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when he released this statement on video.]