President Donald Trump Spends First Night At Hospital| Globecalls.Com

President Trump was transferred Friday afternoon to Walter Reed Medical Center, where the White House said he will be monitored for the next few days for COVID-19 symptoms. It’s the most serious health crisis a president has faced since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.

White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said Friday that Mr. Trump has “mild symptoms,” and was being transferred to Walter Reed Medical Center “out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of his physician and medical experts.”

White House sources said Mr. Trump was suffering from a low-grade fever. The White House physician said earlier he was feeling “fatigued” and would be taking an antibody cocktail.

Late Friday, former Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conyway said she had tested positive for the coronavirus. Conway said she too had “mild” symptoms, which she said included a “light cough.”

Conway was at the Rose Garden event on September 26 when Mr. Trump announced he would be nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Two Republican senators at that event, Thom Tillis and Mike Lee, have tested positive as well.

Vice President Mike Pence, who would take over for Mr. Trump if he were incapacitated or deemed unable to carry out the duties of the presidency, said Friday he had tested negative for the virus.

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President Donald Trump on Friday stooped to his twitter page to announce his ill-health which is actually caused by the novel coronavirus.

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

Mr. Trump is not the first world leader to be stricken. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil both were infected — drawing an eerie link between three populist politicians whose countries have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic.

At 74, Mr. Trump is older and more vulnerable than either of those men. The news of an American president contracting a potentially lethal virus also carried global repercussions beyond what would be generated by any other world leader. Financial markets fell in Asia and wobbled in Europe and the United States, before steadying after the disclosure that Vice President Mike Pence had tested negative.

For allies and adversaries alike, there was a sense of shock as they woke up to the news on Friday — even after three and a half years in which many believed they had lost the capacity to be shocked by anything involving a president whose words and deeds have regularly rocked the international order.