‘I Call That A Cure’: Trump Touts Regeneron’s Experimental Covid Treatment, Promises It Will Be ‘Free’

President Donald Trump tweeted out a video shot from the White House where he states he has been ‘cured’ by the experimental drug Regeneron – then pitched the medication and pledged to make it available to all Americans.

‘I heard about this drug. I said let me take it. It was my suggestion,’ he said. Then he declared himself ‘cured’ and said he wanted every American to get the type of treatment he got.

Trump began the video with an odd introduction :

‘Hi, perhaps you recognize me, it’s your favorite president,’ he said.

‘And I’m standing in front of the Oval Office at the White House, which is always an exciting place to be,’ he continued.

‘I got back a day ago from Walter Reed Medical Center, I spent four days there, and didn’t have to, I could have stayed at the White House but the doctors said because you’re president let’s do it, I said fine,’ Trump said.

You tell me what to do and I’m going to do it. These are great professionals,’ Trump said. He also went on a tangent where he praised police and firefighters.

‘But I spent four days there and I went in, I wasn’t feeling so hot and within a very short period of time they gave me Regeneron, it’s called Regeneron, and other things too, but I think this was the key. But they gave me Regeneron and it was like unbelievable, I felt good immediately, I felt as good three days ago as I do now. So I just want to say we have Regeneron, we have a very similar drug from Eli Lilly. And they’re coming out and we’re trying to get them on an emergency basis,’ Trump said.

Then Trump turned to an attack on China, who he said would pay a ‘big price’ for the outbreak.

‘And I’m going to make it free. You’re not going to pay for it. It wasn’t your fault that this happened, it was China’s fault. And China’s going to pay a big price what they’ve done to this country, China’s going to pay a big price what they’ve done to the world. This is China’s fault and just remember that.’

‘Our military is doing the distribution – it’s called logistics – and they deliver hundreds of thousands of troops in a matter of days, this is easy stuff for them.’

‘And the drug companies have just made a lot of it,’ he said.