Criticism for removing the muzzle upon his return to the White House

Trump urges Americans to "go out" and not to fear "Corona"

Trump removes the muzzle upon his return to the White House from Walter Reed Military Medical Center.

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US President Donald Trump faced new criticism yesterday, because he removed his face mask upon his return to the White House, and urged Americans not to fear the "Covid-19" disease, which has killed more than 209,000 Americans and caused him to personally be hospitalized.

He immediately invited the Americans to "exit", but with "caution," promising to resume his election campaign soon, while a spokesman said that Trump intends to participate in the next presidential debate.

Trump left the gate of Walter Reed Military Medical Center Hospital in Bethesda, in suburban Washington, DC, wearing a white muzzle, before removing it and posing for a photo in a formal uniform with a striped tie, giving the military salute and waving his hand.

Trump took a few steps, raising his thumb, as a sign of victory, then took a black car that took him to the presidential Marine One, which took him within a few minutes to the White House.

In evidence of the importance Trump wanted to give to this moment, at a time when his illness affected the election campaign, and opinion polls indicated that his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, he had made two videos on his Twitter account, showing one of them, in Hollywood style, his arrival at the White House .

"Don't be afraid of him, you will defeat him," Trump said in the video message posted on Twitter.

We have the best medical equipment. ”

"Don't let him control your life, get out, be careful," Trump added.

Regarding his personal infection with the virus, the President pointed out that he may have acquired "immunity" against the virus.

"I am better now, and I may be immune, I do not know," he said, pointing out that when he contracted the virus, "I was on the first frontline, I assumed leadership, as your leader I had to do so .. I knew there was a danger, that there was a risk." , But that's okay ».

The Republican president admitted that, after he was infected with the virus, “I did not feel well, and two days ago, I could have been discharged (from the hospital).

I felt that I was excellent, that I was better than I was 20 years ago. ”

Trump continued his reassuring message to his citizens, telling them, "We have the best medicines in the world, everything is going fast, all (medicines) are being approved, and vaccines are coming from one moment to the next."

Trump, who was treated by an army of doctors and received an experimental treatment, had underestimated the disease that killed more than a million people worldwide, and made his country suffer from the largest number of deaths from the virus in the world.

The Republican president, who will contest Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the November 3 election, was hospitalized on Friday after his condition was diagnosed.

Trump has repeatedly underestimated social distancing guidelines to limit the spread of the virus, and ignored the advice of his medical advisers.

He also mocked his rival, Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, during their first debate, last Tuesday, for wearing a muzzle at public events, even when he is away from others.

Some doctors were alarmed by Trump's decision to remove the muzzle, after he climbed the stairs to the White House, as well as his insistence on urging Americans not to fear "Covid-19".

"I panicked when he said I don't have to fear Covid-19," said William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

"This is a disease that kills about 1,000 people a day, destroys the economy, and cuts off livelihoods," he added. "This is a virus that we should take into account and fear."

The Democrats made a difference as well. "This is a tragic failure of leadership," said Democratic Senator Chris Koons on Twitter.

But Trump has portrayed himself as a man who defeated the disease and emerged from the experience stronger.

"If the president returns to the election campaign, he will be an invincible hero," he wrote on Twitter.

Soon, his rival Biden posted on Twitter a picture of him wearing a muzzle, next to a picture of Trump removing his muzzle, and under the two pictures was the phrase "Masks are important .. save lives."

Biden said to NBC News from Miami, Florida, "I hope that the president will pass, after he has gone through what he has been through - and I am happy that he looks fine - the right lesson for the American people: masks are important."

In an angry tone, Biden said in an interview with Local 10, a local television channel in Florida, “I saw a tweet he wrote. Because of the pandemic ».

Trump intends to participate in the next presidential debate, scheduled for next week, with Biden, despite his infection with the Corona virus, according to Fox News spokesman Tim Murtaugh.

"The president intends to participate in the debate," Murtaugh said, less than an hour after Trump left the Walter Reed Medical Center hospital.

The second debate, in which the two candidates are scheduled to answer voters' questions, will take place in Miami on October 15th.

Biden: Trump should send a message that masks are important, not a call to "exit."

Spokesman: Trump intends to participate in the second presidential debate.

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