President Donald Trump stated earlier than stepping on Air Force One for the G7 summit in Quebec on Friday morning that his spouse Melania Trump was not touring with him as a result of she had a “big operation” and can’t fly for a month—opposite to earlier statements suggesting she underwent a minor kidney process.
“First lady’s great, right there,” the president stated, pointing up towards the White House. “She wanted to go. Can’t fly for one month, the doctors say. She had a big operation, it was close to a four-hour operation, and she’s doing great, right there,” he stated, pointing up once more.
“And you know what?” he added. “She is a great first lady.”
His feedback have been stunning on condition that the process had been described as comparatively minor surgical procedure. Melania Trump’s communications director in an announcement May 14, the day of her hospitalization, defined it as an “embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition.”
“The procedure was successful and there were no complications,” the assertion learn. “Mrs. Trump is at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and will likely remain there for the duration of the week.”
The president that afternoon tweeted that he was headed to the medical middle to see his spouse and that it was a “successful procedure, she is in good spirits.”
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But Melania Trump’s following 26-day absence from the general public eye led to hypothesis together with some wild unfounded theories that she had left the White House and her husband. Embolization, which entails reducing blood stream to an space like an irregular development, is often a minor sufficient process that normal anesthesia will not be required.
President Trump’s new characterization of the process as a “big operation” is the most recent try to elucidate her prolonged absence from the gaze of the media.
Melania Trump made her first public look since May 10 along with her husband at a hurricane preparedness briefing on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon.
At the briefing, she smiled when the president stated she “went through a little rough patch, but she’s doing great,” however didn’t converse.
The president earlier on Wednesday criticized the “Fake News Media” for “unfair” and “vicious” reporting of his spouse throughout her surgical procedure restoration that included “everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse.”
“All Fake, she is doing really well!” he tweeted.