Pastor Mark Burns of Harvest Praise and Worship Center in Easley, South
Carolina, says he saved U.S. President Donald Trump from a poisonous
spider bite when he was in the Oval Office earlier this week, on Monday, when he and a group of evangelical leaders presented Trump with the " Friends of Zion" Awward for his decision last week to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
During this time, in his peripheral vision, he saw a movement going up Trump's back. It was this massive, huge white spider. And it was darting toward the back of his neck," Burns recalled.
He thought to himself, "can anyone else see this?"
He noted that nobody else seemed to react, and it was happening so fast that his first instinct was "kill the spider, protect Donald Trump."
Burns said that he smacked the president's back, killing the spider in the process — not an easy thing for him to do, given his fear of spiders.
"I cannot stand spiders, I have always had a fear of spiders, but because it was the president of the Untied Sates of America, and I saw it running literally toward his neck," he felt that he had to act.
Later on, after making a research on the spider on venomousSpiders.net, it was found that the spider he killed was poisonous.
The website clarifies that the spider's bite "has mild and local cytotoxic and neurotoxic effects," though no fatal incident has ever been recorded.
Still, the bite is "quite painful from the outset. A person usually develops redness, swelling, and itching near the site of the bite. Redness disappears after about 72 hours, and the skin heals in a week or two."
Burns said that Trump is a "man's man" and that he wasn't startled by the pastor smacking him on the back, even though the room went quiet with people wondering what had happened.
The South Carolina preacher then turned to Secret Service agents and said, "please don't shoot me." When Trump asked whether the spider was dead, he presented the dead arachnid in his hand as evidence.
"I was not going to let this spider bite the president of the United Sates," he said.
He explained the sitaution and said, "I saved you Mr. President," joking that he "deserves a medal" for his actions. He said that everyone present laughed at the incident.
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He thought to himself, "can anyone else see this?"
He noted that nobody else seemed to react, and it was happening so fast that his first instinct was "kill the spider, protect Donald Trump."
Burns said that he smacked the president's back, killing the spider in the process — not an easy thing for him to do, given his fear of spiders.
"I cannot stand spiders, I have always had a fear of spiders, but because it was the president of the Untied Sates of America, and I saw it running literally toward his neck," he felt that he had to act.
Later on, after making a research on the spider on venomousSpiders.net, it was found that the spider he killed was poisonous.
The website clarifies that the spider's bite "has mild and local cytotoxic and neurotoxic effects," though no fatal incident has ever been recorded.
Still, the bite is "quite painful from the outset. A person usually develops redness, swelling, and itching near the site of the bite. Redness disappears after about 72 hours, and the skin heals in a week or two."
Burns said that Trump is a "man's man" and that he wasn't startled by the pastor smacking him on the back, even though the room went quiet with people wondering what had happened.
The South Carolina preacher then turned to Secret Service agents and said, "please don't shoot me." When Trump asked whether the spider was dead, he presented the dead arachnid in his hand as evidence.
"I was not going to let this spider bite the president of the United Sates," he said.
He explained the sitaution and said, "I saved you Mr. President," joking that he "deserves a medal" for his actions. He said that everyone present laughed at the incident.
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