Breaking: White House physician update says President Trump has tested negative for coronavirus



The latest update from the White House physician said that President Donald Trump had tested negative for the coronavirus.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany posted the statement from Dr. Sean Conley to her official social media account on Monday.

"In response to your inquiry regarding the President's most recent COVID-19 tests, I can share with you that he has tested NEGATIVE, on conservative days, using the Abbott BinaxNOW antigen card," read the statement.

"It is important to note that this test was not used in isolation for the determination of the President's current negative status," Conley continued and listed the numerous criteria used for his determination.

"This comprehensive data, in concert with the CDC's guidelines for removal of transmission-based precautions, have informed our medical team's assessment that the President is not infectious to others," he concluded.

Trump upended the news cycle when he tweeted on Oct. 2 that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus. He received treatment during a weekend stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and returned to the White House on Oct. 5. He said that he had experienced only mild symptoms from the virus.

Conley had said in a previous update on Saturday that the president was no longer contagious so that he could continue campaigning in public. Many critics noted that the language he used tiptoed around whether the president had tested negative or not.

The new update clearly settled the issue on Monday.

'A protective glow'

The president touted his medical results in a phone interview Sunday with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News.

"I passed the highest test, the highest standards, and I'm in great shape. And I have to tell you, I feel fantastically, I really feel good," the president said.

"I even feel good by the fact that the word 'immunity' means something. Having really a protectiveglow means something," he concluded. "I think it's very important to have that. To have that is a very important thing.

Here's more about the president's health:

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Doctors OK Trump to get back to campaign trail



The president's physician said that President Donald Trump could return to public events after completing treatment for coronavirus in an update released on Thursday.

Dr. Sean Conley listed the president's vital signs in the statement and said he was doing extremely well.

"Today the President has completed his course of therapy for the COVID-19 as prescribed by his team of physicians," read the statement in part.

"Since returning home, his physical exam has remained stable and devoid of any indications to suggest progressions of illness. Overall he's responded extremely well to treatment, without evidence on examination of adverse therapeutic effects," Conley continued.

"Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the President's safe return to public engagements at that time," he concluded.

The president stunned the political world on Friday morning when he tweeted that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus. He was taken to Walter Reed Medical Center out of an abundance of precaution later that day, and returned to the White House on Monday.

The announcement might affect the debate over whether to conduct a second presidential debate between the president and his competitor, Joe Biden.

On Thursday the Commission on Presidential Debates said that the debate would be conducted virtually instead of being in person. The president immediately objected and said that he would not participate in a virtual debate.

"The commission changed the debate style and that's not acceptable to us," said the president to Maria Bartiromo on Fox News.

"I'm not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. That's not what debating's all about, you sit behind a computer and do a debate, it's ridiculous," he added later.

"They're trying to protect Biden," said the president. "Everybody is."

The Trump campaign later called on the commission to delay the debates by one week in order that they may be conducted in person.

Here's more about the debate about the debates:

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Ilhan Omar uses statement about Trump catching coronavirus to relentlessly attack the president



Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) used her statement about President Donald Trump testing positive for coronavirus to relentlessly attack the president and offered no sympathy.

"As someone who lost my own father to this virus and seen the pain it causes, I do not wish it on anyone," said Omar in the statement posted on Friday.

"Over 200,000 people have now died while this Administration actively ignores public health guidance and suppresses science. For months, we have been hoping for a simple acknowledgment from the President—to hear the words, 'We will get through this together.' And now we only hear those words when it is about him—not the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their lives, and the millions whose families have been touched by it because of his malfeasance," she continued.

"Their cruelty is a direct threat to my constituents. This week, the President held a rally and fundraiser in Minnesota, flouting the guidance of his own health agencies by failing to wear a mask. In doing so, he exposed hundreds in a state that is already suffering from an uptick in cases," Omar said.

"Republican members of our Congressional delegation travelled with him on Air Force One and have not quarantined. In fact, they came to the Capitol today, risking the lives of additional elected leaders and staff," she continued.

"The President of the United States and Republicans in Minnesota are actively spreading a deadly virus," Omar concluded. "They are a risk to the public health of my constituents and our country."

Other Democratic leaders were not as negative as Omar. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that the country should pray for the well being of the president and the first lady.

The president revealed to the public in a tweet on Thursday that he had tested positive for coronavirus just hours after it was reported that his close aide Hope Hicks had tested positive earlier in the day.

Trump offered a short video to thank his supporters and inform them that he would be going to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday out of an abundance of caution.

Since his diagnosis, other Republican leaders have also tested positive, including Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah.).

Here's more about the reaction to the president's diagnosis:

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President Trump condemns KKK, Proud Boys, all white supremacists during White House phone call



President Donald Trump on Thursday clearly condemned white supremacists, the Proud Boys, and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

What are the details?

In an evening phone interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, the president — who tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday — squashed any notions that he somehow endorses or turns a blind eye to white supremacist groups.

"I've said it many times, and let me be clear again," he told Hannity. "I condemn the KKK. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys."

Trump added, "I don't know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn that."

"But he should condemn also Antifa. Antifa's a horrible group of people," he added, referring to his repeated calls for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to call out Antifa. "They kill people. ... They're causing insurrection, they're causing riots. [Biden] doesn't wanna do that. But the press doesn't go after him, and that's a really bad group of people. But I condemn them — and if I say it 100 times, it won't be enough because of fake news."

The president received criticism after many said he wasn't clear enough about his condemnation during Tuesday night's presidential debate.

Earlier on Thursday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also took the media to task over its failure to condemn Antifa violence.

In a fiery statement, McEnany said, "The president, specifically, verbatim, was asked: 'White supremacy — do you denounce them?' To which he responded, 'I have always denounced any form of that.' Those are the facts."

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Elsewhere during the president's interview with Hannity, he hit out at Fox News correspondent John Roberts, who demanded that McEnany provide a "declarative statement" on the president's remarks at the debate.

"She was abused by John Roberts. Fox is a much different place than it used to be, Sean," Trump said.

He later added, "I watched John Roberts screaming at Kayleigh. Kayleigh was so wonderful the way she handled it. But I watched him screaming, and his wife — John's wife — was saying, 'What are you doing?' Because yesterday I made a statement that was, according to most, it was a perfect statement. But I've said it so many times, even beyond that."

You can read more on McEnany's remarks against the media here.

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