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Trump says he's 'perfectly fine' as Rudy Giuliani calls him 'strongest, healthiest guy' anywhere near his age

The president's ally said the former gave him a lot of notes to give to the campaign during their talks that lasted between 30-45 minutes

The presidential election is less than a month away and with incumbent Donald Trump himself getting hit by the coronavirus, his allies in the GOP are doing their best to put on a brave face. One of them is Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, who recently revealed his conversation with the latter in which the president said he was feeling “perfectly fine” after testing positive last week along with his wife Melania Trump and many others among the president’s aides and White House staff members. The 76-year-old Giuliani, who was speaking on Fox & Friends Weekend, said he was “very happy” to hear the president’s “voice sounding the same” as he has known for three decades.

Giuliani calls Trump 'strongest, healthiest'

“He gave me a lot of notes to give to the campaign… I had to kind of get him off the phone so he went back and rested,” the former New York City mayor said of his conversation with the president that lasted around 30-45 minutes. He also defined the president as the “strongest and healthiest guy… anywhere near his age”. Trump turned 74 this June and will better his own record as the oldest president to serve the US if he gets his second term in January next year.

Trump told Giuliani during their talks on Saturday, October 3, that: “You go tell people I’m watching this coverage [reporting he’s taken a turn for the worse]. I feel I could get out of here right now. But they’re telling me there can always be a backstep with this disease. But I feel I could go out and do a rally. I am the president of the United States. I can’t lock myself in a room. … I had to confront [the virus] so the American people stopped being afraid of it so we could deal with it responsibly. We have made tremendous progress on treating this disease. Fatality rates are very low compared to [the beginning]. I’m going to beat this.”

On Saturday Trump tweeted from his bed at the Walter Reed Medical Center saying he was feeling well and thanked his doctors and reassuring the people of America. “Doctors, Nurses and ALL at the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are AMAZING!!! Tremendous progress has been made over the last 6 months in fighting this PLAGUE. With their help, I am feeling well!” he posted.

He also tweeted a video of him praising the doctors at the medical facility where he is getting treated besides the supporters coming out on the streets in his support.

Giuliani was also in the presidential debate prep room with others who got infected, like former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway but said he also underwent tests and has no symptoms.

With Trump facing accusations of not taking the virus seriously enough all these months, Giuliani defended him saying the president wants the country to know that the virus needs to be taken on and remaining secluded to the White House for five months was not a great option. A recent book penned by veteran journalist Bob Woodward, however, claimed the president conceding to have downplayed the virus saying he did not want the people to panic. The disease has claimed more than 200,000 lives besides affecting more than seven million. “[Trump] had to cautiously start to go out and lead the way back,” Giuliani said. “If [Trump] stayed holed up there, the whole economy would stay holed up.”

Giuliani said he could relate to Trump’s idea to push forward as a nation during the pandemic because he felt the same when the US faced the dreadful terror attacks of 9/11 when he was the mayor of the Big Apple. Although he felt that it might be a little risky to reopen NYC in the wake of the pandemic but said life has to go on and people “have to live with risk”.