Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade asked whether it was in President Trump’s best interest to leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday as his doctors have suggested the president could do if his prognosis continues to improve.
“They say that after seven days you really get a better idea of if the virus is going to take a turn for the worse or for the better. [He’s] not at that seven days yet. I just hope the president just takes his time. Leaving today seems to be, with everything they have at Walter Reed, this seems to be an unnecessary risk,” Kilmeade said on the show Monday morning.
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Co-host Steve Doocy added, “We get why he wants to get back on the trail, but he has got to take care of himself. The worry is that if he overdoes it and goes back to the White House too early, he could actually wind up going back to the hospital sometime soon.”
Their comments seemed to throw water on the prognosis given by Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, who said the president might be able to leave Monday afternoon if his health continues to improve.
“His health continues to improve,” Meadows said on the network earlier in the morning. “The doctors will actually have an evaluation sometime late in the morning. And then the president, in consultation with the doctors, will make a decision on whether to discharge him later today. We’re still optimistic that based on his unbelievable progress and how strong he’s been in terms of his fight against this COVID-19 disease, that he will be released. But that decision won’t be released until later today.”
The president’s health since his admission to Walter Reed on Friday has been subjected to much scrutiny, given conflicting messages from the president’s physicians and the White House.
