A White House official affirmed on Friday morning that Trump was demonstrating gentle, cold-like symptoms of COVID-19 hours subsequent to testing positive for the infection. Trump originally seemed dormant during a fundraiser at his Bedminster, N.J. golf club on Thursday.

Authorities were gauging treatment choices late Thursday night, and scrambling to think of an arrangement for how to address the nation. Trump declared his positive diagnosis soon after 12 PM Friday, and promptly went into isolation with his wife Melania Trump, who additionally tested positive for the infection.