White House physician Sean Conley said that Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ comments about President Trump’s vital signs being “very concerning” were “misconstrued” when asked about the inconsistency, the Washington Post reports.
“So, the chief and I work side-by-side, and I think his statement was misconstrued,” Conley said. “What he meant was that 24 hours ago, when he and I were checking on the president, that there was that momentary episode of a high fever and that temporary drop in the [oxygen] saturation, which prompted us to act expediently to move him up here.”
Addressing the press Saturday afternoon, Meadows said,
Conley tried to downplay Trump’s health crisis. “Fortunately, that was really a very transient, limited episode. A couple of hours later, he was back, mild again. I’m not going to speculate what that limited episode was about so early in the course, but he’s doing well.”