One of the true
stars to emerge from the 2016 election was Dr. Harold Bornstein,
Donald Trump's
personal physician who penned a beautiful
letter proclaiming Trump to be in "astonishingly
excellent" health, and in fact, "the healthiest individual ever
elected to the presidency." That pinnacle of medical professionalism was
followed up this week by a report in the Times revealing some of Trump's innermost
health-related secrets. For instance, that hair? It's real, all thanks to
Propecia!
The Times conducted
four interviews with Bornstein, who has a practice on the Upper East Side, over
the past month. Though initially the 69-year-old doctor was reluctant to
discuss the President's health with reporters, it appears he got over his
shyness and started revealing some delicious nuggets. Most importantly, that
mop on top of Trump's head is indeed real—Bornstein says Trump has been taking
the prostate drug finasteride, known as Propecia, to keep from balding. (A fun
side effect of Propecia is impotence, but Bornstein didn't touch on that).
Bornstein noted that he, too, takes Propecia, which explains his luscious
locks. "He has all his hair,” he said. “I have all my hair.”
Other fun medical
facts: Trump has rosacea, which might explain why he dyes his face orange; he's
up-to-date on his HIV tests; and Bornstein is not concerned about Trump
potentially suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, even though his father was
diagnosed with it in his eighties and Trump can't seem to recognize Rudy Giuliani anymore. Also, Trump
changes the paper on the examining table himself, which makes sense considering
his alleged crippling fear of germs (and stairs!)
Bornstein himself
has suffered tremendously since his letter was released, and perhaps even more
so since NBC News ran a profile on him over the summer. That
profile revealed that Bornstein took this election as seriously as the voters
did, dashing off that four-paragraph letter in just 5 minutes while a limo
Trump sent for him languished outside his office.
When asked how
Bornstein could assert, "If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally,
will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency," as he
did in the letter, Bornstein replied, "I like that sentence to be quite
honest with you and all the rest of them are either sick or dead." Indeed,
Trump's predecessor is so sick he doesn't even care if the world sees him wearing a backwards
baseball cap.
Since becoming
famous during the campaign, Bornstein says the media's made fun of him, and
strangers have thrown things at his office window and yelled at him on Park
Avenue. He was also not invited to be Trump's physician at the White House, but
he did get to go to the inauguration. There, he stood in the
cold, suffered back pain, and was "absolutely miserable" the whole
time. You and me both, Harold.
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