“I just left Walter Reed Medical Center and it’s really something very special.
Don’t be afraid of it.
We’re going to beat it.
We have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines, all developed recently.
And you’re going to beat it.
I didn’t feel so good…
I could have left two days ago…
I felt great, better than I have in a long time…” he said.
Yet in the face of this reassurance, Trump “gasping” had begun to trend on Twitter.
The Twitterverse was divided over Trump ‘gasping’
Some Twitter users were incredulous.
Anothertweetsaid: “Maybe Trump should take it easy.
He’s visibly gasping for air after climbing stairs and posturing like Putin.
COVID ain’t no joke.”
A fourthsaid: “Trump is gasping with pneumonia.
Does he not think we can see?”
Come on now, make up your minds because the rest of us need to know.
It can’t be both.
Only 8:40 PM though, carry on.
It is just utterly irresponsible."
By virtue of his position, Trump’s experience of COVID is slightly different from everyone else’s.
