On National Television, Trump Praises ‘Miracles from God’

“I came here, I wasn’t feeling so well, I feel much better now. We’re working hard to get me back. I have to get all the way back because we still have to make America great again.

“We’ve done an awfully good job of that but we still have steps to go and I have to finish that job. I’ll be back, I think, I’ll be back soon and I look forward to finishing up the campaign the way it was started, the way we’ve been doing and the kind of numbers we’ve been doing

“We’ve been so proud of it but this was something that’s happened and it was something that happened to millions of people all over the world and I’ve been fighting for them, not just in the US, I’m fighting for them all over the world. 

“We’re going to beat the coronavirus or whatever you want to call it and we’re going to beat it soundly. 

At this point, the president turned his thoughts to God.

“So many things are happening, if you look at the therapeutics which I’m taking right now some of them and others that are coming out soon that are looking like, frankly they’re miracles, if you want to know the truth. People criticize me when I say that but we have things happening that look like they’re miracles coming down from God so I just want to tell you that I’m starting to feel good.  

“I don’t know the next period of a few days, I guess. that’s the real test so we’ll be seeing what happened over those next couple of days

“I just want to be thankful for all the support I’ve seen whether it’s on television, reading about it, most of all I appreciate what’s been said by the American people almost a bipartisan consensus, by the American people. It’s a beautiful thing to see, and I very much appreciate it and I won’t forget it

“I also want to thank the leaders of the world for their condolences and they know what we’re going through. They know what your leader is and what I have to go through. 

“But I had no choice because I just didn’t want to stay in the White House. I was given that alternative: stay in the White House, lock yourself in, don’t ever leave, don’t even go to the Oval Office, just stay upstairs and enjoy it. Don’t see people, don’t talk to people, and just be done with it and I can’t do that, I had to be out front and this is America, this is the United States, the greatest country in the world. This is the most powerful country in the world. I can’t be locked up in a room upstairs and totally safe and just say ‘Hey, whatever happens, happens’. I can’t do that.

“We have to confront problems. As a leader, you have to confront problems. There’s never been a great leader that would have done that. 

“So that’s where it is. I’m doing well, I want to thank everybody. Our first lady is doing very well. Melania asked me to say something as to the respect she has for our country, the love that she has for our country. And we are both doing well. 

“Melania is really handling it very nicely as you’ve probably read, she is slightly younger than me just a little tiny bit.

“And therefore, we know the disease, we know the situation with age versus younger people and Melania is handling it statistically like it’s supposed to be handled and that makes me very happy and it makes the country very happy but I’m also doing well and I think we’re gonna have a very good result. 

“Again, over the next few days we’re gonna probably know for sure so I just want to thank everybody out there, everybody all over the world, specifically the United States – the outpouring of love has been incredible. I will never forget. Thank you very much.