The Marine One helicopters waited on the White House lawn on October 2, when advisers attempted to persuade Trump to enter the hospital to treat Covid-19.

Despite the appearance of symptoms and experimental drugs, President Donald Trump did not want to be hospitalized, sources familiar with the matter revealed on October 3.

Knowing he didn't want to appear seriously ill, Trump aides tried to show the President was only mildly ill.

Two sources said that senior officials planned to put the President in the hospital after the stock trading sessions closed, in order to avoid inevitable disturbances.

Trump, with support from his advisers, said if he was hospitalized, he wanted to go to the helicopter himself to prove he was healthy and capable of running the administration.

On October 2, the US President looked a bit tired, walking slowly on the South Lawn at the White House to board a Marine One helicopter to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

White House doctor Sean Conley on the morning of October 3 said he was delighted that the President has been relieved of symptoms such as cough, stuffy nose and fatigue, and no fever in the past 24 hours.

ABC quoted an anonymous source as saying that Trump had difficulty breathing and had to breathe oxygen on October 2 at the White House, before entering the hospital.

The medical team plans to treat Trump with the antiviral drug Remdesivir for 5 days.

Trump on Tuesday evening posted a video from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was under treatment for Covid-19, stating that he was better and "soon returned".