been staged for political purposes history shows that doctors must never spin briefings on a sick presidents medical conditionthe comment followed conflicting assessment and treatment for trump s purported covidve infection from his team of doctors and aides whose credibility is being called into question on the one hand they appeared to repeatedly suggest that he was not all that unwell or in danger but acknowledgement that he was put on oxygen twice and is being administered the most aggressive lastline treatment possible recommended only for extreme cases including use of experimental drugs and a steroid pointed to a president who was more ill than they were letting on one explanation for the contradiction is that trump himself is reportedly pressing for aggressive treatment chafing at being confined to the hospital and demanding to get back to the white house and action despite the danger such premature steps could pose for him and to those around him the us president himself gave a hint of such thinking not only with his daring outsidethehospital spin to greet his cultish supporters but also musing that it was neither presidential not american to be bullied by a virus and one should meet the challenge headon its been a very interesting journey i learned a lot about covid i learned by really going to school this is the real school and i get it and i understand it he said in a video message referring to his contracting the virus and his subsequent hospitalisation on monday morning trump returned to his trademark twitterstorm posting some 20 tweets mostly in allcaps urging people to vote on the basis of his purported successes even as there was wild speculation on social media under hashtags such as trumpcovidhoax and covidiot reports also emerged that he was bored at the hospital and wanted out because it makes him look weakmeanwhile there is renewed scrutiny of the sequence of events relating to how and when trump caught the virus and when it was disclosed to white house staff aides and the public according to the wall street journal the president knew from an early preliminary test that he was covidve as early as thursday evening but did not disclose it pending a second affirmative test later that night while revealing in a fox news interview that his aide hope hicks had caught the virus as the virus spread among the people closest to him trump also asked one adviser not to disclose results of their own positive test saying dont tell anyone the paper reported