After Years of Boasting About His Health, Trump Faces Questions He Can’t Shake

 https://time.com/7314050/trump-health-speech-takeaways

After years of being told Trump is the model of health, an exemplar of youth, and a man always in his prime, there is well-earned skepticism about his wellbeing—so much so that the public is conditioned to doubt even their own eyes when it comes to Trump’s existence. Trump’s unhinged cognitive swerves—a constant but perhaps intensifying trait—don’t much help, either.

After all, earlier this year the White House physician praised the President’s health by boasting that he logs "frequent victories in golf events." During his first term, Trump’s doctors kept him just one pound away from being classified as obese but said he was nevertheless a machine. "Some people just have great genes. I told the President if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200,” Dr. Ronny Jackson said in 2018, years before joining Congress. During the 2016 campaign, Trump’s personal physician released a letter lauding his excellent health—one that Trump himself prescribed, it was later reported. "He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter," Dr. Harold Bornstein said three years later. "I just made it up as I went along."