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Is Trump really fine? Video shows POTUS 'gasping for air' as he stood maskless in White House balcony

Trump, who tested positive for coronavirus on October 2, made his White House return within three days on October 5, even when his medical team warned that he 'may not entirely be out of the woods yet'

President Donald Trump made a hurried departure from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday, October 5, telling his followers the virus that dangerously deprived him of oxygen and hospitalized him for 72 hours was "nothing to fear. Soon after his return, he posed for a maskless photo-op in the White House balcony and in no time, people noticed that Trump was gasping for air.

Trump, who tested positive on Friday, October 2, made his White House return within three days of being admitted for treatment, even when his medical team warned that he “may not entirely be out of the woods yet.”

As soon as Trump's video came to light, people started slamming him, as one Internet user shared the video and wrote, "As @maddow just said ... this man does not look well. He definitely looks like he is gasping for air and wincing. And he is spewing virus with every labored breath," while another one shared a video responding to Trump's video of his return and said: "I still think your feelings the effects of the steroid induced psychosis. Very responsible walking into the White house maskless while still very contagious. I hope one of you followers smarten up and sues you. BTW we all saw you gasping. #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #GaspingForAir."

One added a political twist and wrote, "Trump’s gasping at the WH. The GOP will say - look at our mighty dictator - while Trump knows the walls are closing in, even the air he has breathed for all his life has endorsed Joe Biden. #TrumpCovid19." While some said he is not well and wrote, "Trump standing on a balcony for a photo-op with a contagious disease that's killed 210,000 people, gasping for breath, is so banana republic I can't believe what I'm seeing."

However, there were some who slammed the people mocking Trump and wrote, "The usual string of vultures are celebrating Trump gasping for air while simultaneously pretending to care about Covid. Pick a lane. I work in Healthcare. I don't like him either. I refuse to celebrate someone getting Covid & potentially dying. You people are disgusting." 

While some started weaving conspiracy theories and wrote, "While watching the Trump gasping video for the tenth time, I had a horrible and ghoulish thought, and the more I think about it the more it makes sense. Are you ready? They (Fox News, GOP, people in the White House, his own family) don't want him to survive. 1/?" and "Bear with me here, I know it seems counter-intuitive, given how they puff him up and he can do no wrong. And, I know he's stubborn, prideful, and can't be reasoned with. But, he doesn't have to be reasoned with to get him to do things. They could get him to focus on surviving. 2/"

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