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Saturday 13 January 2018
Trump gets 1st medical checkup since becoming president
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One as he leaves Walter Reed National porters. paragraph letter from his
Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, after his first medical check-up as But conclusions about longtime physician, Dr.
president. Trump’s mental acu- Harold Bornstein, who con-
ity aren’t expected. The cluded that Trump “is in ex-
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) White House said Trump will cellent physical health.” A
not undergo a psychiat- year earlier, Bornstein said
ric exam. Officials did not in a December 2015 letter:
address a different type “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can
of screening: assessments state unequivocally, will be
of cognitive status that ex- the healthiest individual
amine neurologic functions ever elected to the presi-
including memory. Cog- dency.”
nitive assessments aren’t The 2016 letter put Trump’s
routine in standard physi- blood pressure and choles-
cals, though they recently terol measurements in the
became covered in Medi- healthy range, though he
care’s annual wellness visits uses a cholesterol-lowering
for seniors. statin medication. His EKG,
While the exams are not chest X-ray, echocardio-
mandatory, modern presi- gram and blood sugar
dents typically undergo were normal.
them regularly and release The 6-foot-3 Trump weighed
a doctor’s report declaring 236 pounds (107 kilograms),
they are “fit for duty.” and his body mass index, or
Two months before the BMI, of 29.5 put him in the
November 2016 election, category of being over-
Trump released a five- weight for his height..q
Continued from Front gestion that he’s mentally
unfit, declaring himself “a
Some of the comments very stable genius.”
were published in a new The examination was ex-
book about Trump’s first pected to last several hours
year, “Fire and Fury: Inside and will measure things like
the Trump White House” by Trump’s blood pressure,
Michael Wolff, which White cholesterol, blood sugar,
House press secretary Sar- heart rate and weight.
ah Huckabee Sanders has The White House said Jack-
denounced as “complete son, Trump’s physician, was
fantasy” for portraying her expected to release a brief
71-year-old boss as undisci- statement on Friday after
plined and in over his head the exam and then pro-
as president. vide a detailed readout of
Trump himself has pushed the exam on Tuesday and
back hard against any sug- answer questions from re-
Ex-fighter pilot launches bid
to replace Arizona Sen. Flake
By STEVE PEOPLES dia posts as she trekked
BOB CHRISTIE across the state flying a
Associated Press World War II-era fighter
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Re- plane. “I’m a fighter pilot
publican congresswom- and I talk like one,” she
an Martha McSally em- said in an announcement
braced President Donald video, a fiery beginning to
Trump and his hardline im- one of the nation’s premier
migration rhetoric as she Senate contests. “That’s
launched her Senate bid why I told Washington Re-
Friday, lashing out at the publicans to grow a pair
same establishment lead- of ovaries and get the job
ers who support her cam- done.” Later, she refused to
paign to replace retiring condemn Trump’s closed-
GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. door description of African
The 51-year-old retired Air countries as “shitholes.”
Force combat pilot at- “I speak a little salty be-
tacked Sharia law and hind closed doors at times
sanctuary cities while vow- as well, so I’m not going to
ing to support Trump’s push throw the first stone on us-
to build a massive border ing any language,” McSal-
wall. Her comments came ly said after facing dozens
amid a series of public ap- of supporters inside a Tuc-
pearances and social me- son airport hangar.q
