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President Trump “continues to improve” and could be discharged from the hospital as early as Monday and return to the White House as he continues to undergo further treatment for COVID-19, his doctors said Sunday.

“He has been up and around. Our plan today is to have him eat and drink, be up out of bed,” Dr. Brian Garibaldi, a member of Trump’s medical team, said outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,.

“If he continues to look and feel as well as he does today our hope is to plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the white house where he can continue his treatment course.”

Dr. Sean Dooley added that the president “continues to improve” and “has remained without fever since Friday morning.”

“His vital signs are stable. From a pulmonary standpoint, he remains on room air this morning and is not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms,” said Dooley.

The doctors also said the commander-in-chief experienced two episodes in which his oxygen levels dropped and were countered with drug therapy and supplemental oxygen.

“Thursday night into Friday morning when I left the bedside, the president was doing well with only mild symptoms and his oxygen was in the high 90s,” Dr. Sean Conley told reporters.

“Friday morning when I returned to the bedside, the president had a high fever and his oxygen saturation was transiently dipping below 94 percent,” he said.

Conley said because of the developments, he became “concerned for possible rapid progression of the illness” and administered dexamethasone.

“I recommended to the president that we try supplemental oxygen and see how he’d respond. He was fairly adamant he didn’t need it. He was not short of breath. He was tired, had a fever, that was about it,” Conley said.

“After about a minute — on only two liters — his saturation levels were back over 95 percent. He stayed on that for about an hour maybe, and was off and gone. Later that day by the time the team here was at the bedside, the president had been up out of bed moving about the residence with only mild symptoms,” he said.

At that point he said the medical team agreed the president should leave the White House for Walter Reed.

Along with the dexamethasone, a steroid, Trump is receiving Remdesivir and a cocktail of antibodies while being treated at the hospital.

Conley was asked why the medical team hadn’t disclosed during Saturday’s briefing that the president had been administered oxygen.

“I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude of the team, that the president, that his course of illness has had. Didn’t want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction,” Conley said. “And in doing so, came off like we’re trying to hide something, which wasn’t necessarily true. The fact of the matter is that he’s doing really well.”

Conley was asked whether Trump, because of the dropping oxygen levels, showed signs of pneumonia or other lung problems associated with people battling coronavirus. “So we’re tracking all of that. There’s some expected findings, but nothing of any major clinical concern,” he said.

Pressed on the president’s lung functions, Conley said they performed a lung spirometry on Trump.

“He’s maxing it out. We told him to do what you can do, and it’s over 2500 milliliters each time. He’s doing great,” Conley said.

He also addressed the inconsistencies between the doctors’ rosy assessment of Trump’s condition during Saturday’s briefing and comments made later by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that the physicians were “very concerned” with the president’s fever and oxygen levels.

“I think his statement was misconstrued. What he meant was that 24 hours ago when he and I were checking on the president, that there was that momentary episode of the high fever and that temporary drop in the saturation, which prompted us to expediently to move him up here,” Conley said.

But he said that was a “transient-limited episode” and the president was back up shortly afterward.

“We’re not going to speculate what that limited episode was about so early in the course, but he’s doing well,” Conley said.