‘I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women’: Trump says he feels ‘powerful’ at first rally since Covid infection

Donald Trump, showing no visible signs of the coronavirus that sidelined him for over a week, returned to the campaign trail Monday night declaring himself "powerful" and suggesting he might "kiss everyone" in attendance at a Florida rally.

"They say I'm immune - I feel so powerful," he said outside an airport hangar in Sanford. "I'll walk in there and kiss everyone."

"I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women," Mr Trump added, despite his history of sexual assault allegations. "I'll give you a big, fat kiss."

The president returned to the campaign trail and made his first trip outside Washington since being hospitalized and given both supplemental oxygen and a costly cocktail of drugs not available to most Americans.

He has other rallies planned this week in Pennsylvania, Iowa and North Carolina. A senior campaign adviser said Monday the president wants his staff to add more so he can be on the campaign trail perhaps every day until the election -- including with multiple rallies a day.

"It's great to be back," he said as the crowd chanted "U-S-A!" before he promised to get Americans "whatever the hell they gave me" while hospitalized for parts of four days with his own coronavirus infection.