According to his physician, Trump weighs 236 pounds and stands at 6 feet 3 inches, giving him a BMI of 29.5, which is overweight according to the National Institutes of Health calculator. Donald revealed all these stats when he stopped by The Dr. Oz Show, surprising the host by handing Dr. Mehmet Oz, 56, a report from his latest physical. Shortly before Fox TV aired an hour-long segment on “The Dr. Oz Show” and that Oz tossed the candidate softball questions. Trump also went on the popular and controversial “Dr. Oz Show” to talk about his health.
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But even Trump’s full physical results, which the campaign plans to release Thursday fall short of the detailed medical histories past nominees have provided to demonstrate their physical capacity to serve as president.
“I looked at them and tried to process it pretty quickly and I got to say as a doctor, if he was my patient, they are good for a man of his age”, Dr. Oz said.
Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, says she doesn’t see the point of such broad disclosures, “I don’t know why we need such extensive medical reporting when we all have a right to privacy”.
He said that the Republican enjoyed an “astonishingly excellent” bill of health and would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to presidency”. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, 68, is set to return to the campaign trail on Thursday after falling ill with pneumonia.
“Mr. Trump, I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done in Flint, not give a political speech”, said the Rev. Faith Green Timmons, the pastor of the Bethel United Methodist Church.
Controversy over the health of both presidential candidates has increased in recent days, after Hillary Clinton fell ill at a 9/11 memorial service after being diagnosed with pneumonia – which she kept from the public.
Trump’s only other admission about his personal health came in the form of a letter from Bornstein in December that contained few specifics, but included broad hyperbole. And I think they are very aggressive.
The doctor said results from an electrocardiogram and chest X-ray on April 16 were normal.
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“The liberal, dishonest media is so quick to attack one of the Trumps that they never let the truth get in the way of a good smear”, Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in an emailed statement.
