Polls show women favoring Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, though Trump does better than her with men.
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In a letter released Thursday, Dr. Harold Bornstein of New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital attested to Trump’s general health. But earlier Wednesday, the campaign said the information would not be released during taping for “The Dr. Oz Show” and would instead be released “soon”, NBC’s Katy Tur reported.
On Thursday afternoon, it finally happened, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump finally appeared on The Dr. Oz Show to reveal the results of a medical exam that was supposed to have taken place “late last week”, according to Kellyanne Conway, although she was not present at the exam, and so relied only on what someone else told her. He said that when he’s with the 39-year-old Brady, “I feel I’m the same age as him”.
“I would say I see a person who is 35 years old”, Trump replied. And when asked how he copes with anger, Trump said he doesn’t “think it matters that much”.
Wednesday’s interview comes as the health of both Trump and his opponent, Hillary Clinton, have taken center stage in the 2016 election.
Indeed, Trump, a former reality TV star, is at home in a setting like “The Dr. Oz Show”. “Kids hear a lot more than we think”, Clinton recently said.
He said that he’s been lucky to have good blood pressure and said he’s experienced fewer allergy symptoms as he has aged.
The exchange did not appear in the broadcast episode, most likely because Trump’s use of inappropriate language about his daughter has previously drawn criticism. Trump’s is 63 mg/dL, a range that will protect him from heart disease.
“It’s nearly like a political shortcut”, he said, “a strategy of, ‘Nope you’re guilty too, let’s move to the next question'”.
Unusually, the letter doesn’t say what prompted the prescription, presumably cholesterol levels that at some earlier time were high, said Dr. Danforth Lincoln, a family physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who examined the released information.
The document featured on the Dr Oz program was not the actual medical report itself – though Trump did refer to to it as “the report” – but rather a letter from Dr Bornstein summarising the report’s contents.
Dr. Oz also read out the results of Trump’s testosterone levels on the show. “I think they’re going to be good”.
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Trump has been pictured several times eating fast food on the campaign trail. Next week, she plans to meet with foreign leaders next week at the U.N. General Assembly in NY, her campaign said Wednesday. Her campaign’s first attack ad featured children watching and reacting to a compilation of Trump clips. Later, he added that he could never hide his medical condition anyway because, “If I’m in the hospital, it’s gonna be out there, big league”. “We play golf together-the great quarterback; he’s a phenomenal guy, great athlete”, Trump said, plugging his relationship, as he does often, with the Patriots quarterback and longtime golfing buddy.
