President Donald Trump drew laughs in the Oval Office when Trump Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. coughed on him and Trump quipped, “I hope I didn’t catch Covid just there!”

Trump followed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s address to military leaders Tuesday morning with a lengthy speech that featured several bonkers moments and characteristic deviations — and which lasted well over an hour.

That performance put Trump behind schedule for an Oval Office photo op in which he announced a deal with Pfizer to lower the cost of certain prescription drugs.

Following the announcement, Trump took questions from reporters. As the president concluded a falsehood-riddled riff on lowering the price of insulin, RFK Jr. did a Dracula cough/sneeze, prompting Trump to demand Paxlovid as reporters and officials laughed:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But after they explained, and they didn’t really explain to him because he was not capable really of understanding, but when they went out and talked about it, they acted like it was a great feat, but it had nothing to do with him.

And it continues, and we’ll get it down even further. But insulin was, people weren’t taking it, I would imagine.

RFK JR.: (COUGH).

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They couldn’t take it. God bless you, Bobby. I hope I didn’t catch COVID just there!

(LAUGHTER)

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Don’t you have Paxlovid?

(LAUGHTER).

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: What is it? Pax? He’s got Paxlovid.

(LAUGHTER)

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Give me a Paxlovid immediately!

Trump famously contracted Covid-19 during the 2020 presidential campaign, at which time his medical team held press conferences at which they told what turned out to be verifiable lies about Trump’s condition. It was also later revealed that Trump had tested positive for the disease earlier than originally thought — and knew he was infected when he debated former President Joe Biden.

Watch above via The White House.

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