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"sitting up in bed in his T-shirt, and it didn't look like he was going anywhere.""It was the first time I had seen him in anything other than a golf shirt or a suit jacket," Meadows wrote, adding that Trump acted like it was any other day and tried to work."The red streaks in the president's eyes hadn't gone away, and his hair was a mess from the hours he'd spent getting Regeneron in bed," he wrote. Meadows said he had arranged for four doses of the monoclonal antibody drug to be sent to the White House in secret and got approval from the FDA for the President to receive the treatment Trump initially resisted being taken to the hospital but relented when Meadows told him that "it's better that you walk out of here today under your own strength, your own power, than for me to have to carry you out on a gurney in two days."
When he went to walk to the helicopter that would transport him to Walter Reed, Trump could not hold a briefcase, the weight of which was" too much for him," according to Meadows.
"He looked at me, almost surprised he had to put it down. 'I'm sorry,' he said. 'I-I just can't carry that out there,'" Meadows wrote.