Trump’s Condition Had Deteriorated Friday Before ‘Unbelievable Improvement,’ Chief of Staff Says

President Donald Trump working in the presidential suite at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 3, 2020. Joyce N. Boghosian/White House

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows confirmed that President Donald Trump on Friday had a fever and rapidly declining levels of blood oxygen before making a recovery.

“Yesterday, we were real concerned,“ Meadows told Fox News on Saturday evening. ”He had a fever, and his blood oxygen level dropped rapidly.”