NEW YORK: GOP front-runner Donald Trump marked President Joe Biden’s 81st birthday on Monday (Nov 20) by releasing a letter from his doctor that stories the previous president is in “glorious” bodily and psychological well being.
The letter posted on Trump’s social media platform contained no particulars to assist its claims – measures like weight, blood stress, and levels of cholesterol, or the outcomes of any check. Dr Bruce A Aronwald, a New Jersey doctor who says he has been Trump’s physician since 2021 and most lately examined him in September, reported that Trump’s “bodily exams have been effectively inside the regular vary and his cognitive exams have been distinctive”.
He added that Trump’s most up-to-date lab outcomes have been “much more favorable than prior testing on among the most important parameters” due to current weight reduction he credited to “improved weight loss program and continued every day bodily train whereas sustaining a rigorous schedule.”
The physician concluded the 77-year-old is “at the moment in glorious well being” and “will proceed to get pleasure from a wholesome energetic life-style for years to come back”.
The report comes as age has emerged as a key situation of the 2024 election, which might discover Trump and Biden, the nation’s oldest president, going through off as soon as once more.
Whereas Trump is not all that a lot youthful than Biden, polls constantly discover that Individuals view age as extra of a legal responsibility for the president. An August ballot from The Related Press-NORC Heart for Public Affairs Analysis discovered that 77 per cent of US adults, together with 69 per cent of Democrats, seen Biden as too previous to be efficient for 4 extra years, whereas solely 51 per cent of adults – and simply 28 per cent of Republicans – stated the identical about Trump.
Nonetheless, Trump’s rivals have tried to spotlight his age by pointing consideration to his personal current flubs, together with mixing up town and state the place he was campaigning.
“The presidency is just not a job for any person that’s pushing 80 years previous,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, one in every of Trump’s rivals, stated on CNN Sunday, casting himself as a person “within the prime of my life.”
