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Americano

Is Trump really 'feeling great'?

Americano

The Spectator

Politics, News, News Commentary

4714 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A Covid-positive Donald Trump returned to the White House yesterday evening after spending 72 hours at the Walter Reed hospital. After landing on the south lawn in a helicopter, the President removed his mask and waved to the media below, flanked by American flags. He later tweeted: 'FEELING GREAT!' But has Trump really recovered? Freddy Gray speaks to Amber Athey.

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0:00.0

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0:28.3

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0:40.4

Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast.

0:42.1

This is an election year.

0:44.3

Will Donald Trump be re-elected?

0:46.3

What is going on with the Democrats?

0:49.4

And has America gone even more crazy?

0:53.4

We'll be discussing all of these things and more, more than once a week,

0:56.5

because we don't feel you have enough Americano in your life.

1:00.7

I'm joined today by Amber Athe, who is the Spectators Washington editor,

1:05.8

and we're going to be asking, is Donald Trump feeling all right?

1:13.3

Now, Amber, Trump has just tweeted that he's feeling great in caps. We've heard a lot about how well he's feeling. He's back at the White House. There was a sort of amazing theatre.

1:21.2

CNN called it grotesque theatre last night as he was helicoptered back to the White House.

1:28.5

I thought he looked a little bit peeky, to use, I think, a British word, as he stood on the balcony.

1:36.0

But he does seem to be okay.

1:37.8

Would you say that's about right?

1:39.3

I hope that's right.

1:40.3

I agree that when he got to the top of the steps at the South Portico, he looked like

1:44.2

he was struggling a little bit to catch his breath, which I suspect is probably normal

1:48.7

after battling the virus. The main concern now and a concern that even his doctors have identified

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