He weighs 267 pounds (though other reports have said the number was 230 pounds) and Dr. Oz said Trump was “slightly overweight”.
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Donald Trump is “healthy enough to be president”, according to Dr. Mehmet Oz, whose only apparent issue with the Republican nominee was that he could afford to lose a few pounds (and in our unprofessional medical opinion, find a new form of exercise).
The biggest takeaway? Trump, according to Trump’s doctor – Dr. Harold N. Bornstein – is the epitome of health. Trump has only been hospitalized one, when he was 11 years old for an appendectomy.
Clinton’s well-being has been particularly scrutinized after she stumbled into a van on September 11 when she abruptly left a memorial event in NY.
On Wednesday, Clinton’s personal physician said she was “recovering well” from pneumonia and remained “fit to serve as President of the United States”.
Trump has had an annual physical exam and last had a colonoscopy in 2013, which showed normal results.
Dr. Lisa Bardack said she has evaluated Clinton several times since then and said the former Secretary of State continues to improve.
Oz later told NBC News that “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”.
ABC News reports the letter listed that Trump had a echocardiogram of his heart and a chest x-ray performed, but did not disclose why these tests were performed. The Republican presidential nominee tapes the show Wednesday for airing on Thursday.
While the note provides much more information about Trump’s health than a previous letter from Bornstein, it does not constitute his full medical records. The letter also did not mention his current mental health.
Oz told Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN that he was uncertain whether or not Trump would share his records. Bornstein last month confessed he had written his assessment in five minutes while waiting for a limo outside his office.
Bornstein said there was no history in Trump’s family of premature cardiac or neoplastic disease, which includes all kinds of cancers and abnormal growths.
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Clinton remained in her suburban NY home Wednesday as she continues to recover.
