After likely contracting Covid-19 from a "super-spreader" event at the White House, Donald Trump will mark his first public engagement on Saturday by holding… another event at the White House.

It comes after the president returned to the virtual campaign trail on Friday with a two-hour online rally with radio host Rush Limbaugh, ahead of a planned "televised evaluation" on Tucker Carlson's evening Fox News broadcast.

The two-hour love-fest with Limbaugh saw the president drop the F-bomb, call his experimental Covid treatment a "cure", and claim Nancy Pelosi was trying to oust Joe Biden with a 25th amendment play.

Social media users have been left bewildered by Donald Trump’s bizarre interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity and have taken to Twitter to voice their reactions to the exchange.

During the interview on Thursday, Mr Trump dodged questions about testing, was heard coughing, and launched strange rants against his Democratic opposition.

When discussing climate policies proposed by Democratic candidate Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris, the president said Mr Biden would “take buildings down and rebuild them with tiny little windows” that “you can’t see out, you can’t see the light”.

He also attacked California for “sending millions or gallons of water out to sea” in order to “take care of certain little tiny fish”, hit out at Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer following revelations of a plot to kidnap her, and once again refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election.

The interview resembled the type of propaganda we’re used to seeing from foreign dictators, pumped out via state-sponsored media: Russia’s Vladimir Putin showing off his muscular physique to prove he’s still virile, the lethal Saddam Hussein hugging children and aiding the less fortunate.

Groomed and spray-tanned, Trump was posed in front of the American flag for the taped, edited interview. He never coughed, and rarely wheezed, the picture of scripted health.

Trump claimed “I didn’t have a problem with breathing. I got lucky with a certain medicine. ... It was miraculous to me. I took the Regeneron. We’re gonna send it to everybody free of charge.”

When asked about the tests they ran, Trump said they tested his lungs with “different” machinery, taking pains to note that he did so without even having to remove his jacket. “It tested good.”

“I have been retested,” Trump said, scarcely clarifying the matter. “I haven’t found out numbers yet or anything. I’m at the bottom of the scale or free.”

For this president, there is no substitute for the sound of himself and the sight of a crowd. He'll speak about law and order from the balcony, so there will be distance between him and the people. Even if there probably won't be between the people themselves.

Has the president tested negative for coronavirus since he left hospital? It matters because if he's still infected he could still be shedding and spreading. If he had tested negative for coronavirus, it's probably safe to assume the White House would rush out such as result. And yet, it hasn't and neither has he.

Trump says he's no longer taking steroids and feels 'really good' but admits he's NOT tested negative for COVID as he prepares for White House South Lawn event with 2,000 people today.

A defiant President Donald Trump put lives at risk once again, just nine days after he revealed his own Covid-19 diagnosis.

After being sidelined from the campaign trail for more than a week, Trump leaned into his law-and-order message in a speech threaded with falsehoods that was clearly a campaign rally disguised as a White House event.

Trump claimed that if the left gains power, they'll launch a crusade against law enforcement. Echoing his highly inaccurate campaign ads that suggest that Democratic nominee Joe Biden would defund 911 operations and have a "therapist" answer calls about crime, Trump falsely claimed that the left is focused on taking away firearms, funds and authority from police.

With just three weeks to go until an election in which he's trailing badly in the polls, and millions of voters already voting, Trump is deploying familiar scare tactics.

The event was purportedly aimed at Black and Latino Americans, who, he argued, are benefiting from his agenda.

The ignorance of Trump inviting a group of Black and Latino Americans, who have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus, to an event at the White House at a time when he might still be contagious, was appalling to Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

"The images we are seeing are absolutely extraordinary," Faust said on CNN's "Newsroom" as attendees on the South Lawn did very little social distancing, with many not wearing masks. "To literally draw (Black and Latino activists) into the White House, to a hot zone, is extraordinarily inept in terms of public policy and public health ... If you believe nuclear power is safe, you don't go and have a picnic at Chernobyl the next day to prove that point."

Sean Conley's memo is the first update on Mr Trump's health since Thursday. However, the statement did not say whether Mr Trump had tested negative for Covid-19.

The doctor's memo said the latest tests on the president revealed there was "no longer evidence of actively replicating virus", and that his viral load was "decreasing".

In the memo, Dr Conley said President Trump had been given sensitive lab tests that detect how much of the virus is still in his system and that "by currently recognised standards, he is no longer considered a transmission risk to others".