Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told Dr. Mehmet Oz Thursday he wants to lose about 15 pounds, wishes he could golf more, and thinks campaigning is “a form of exercise.”
Trump appeared on the syndicated “Dr. Oz Show,” and shared with Oz results of a check-up he underwent last week and a letter from his personal physician. The airing of the show followed a week of national conversation on the health of the leading candidates for president of the United States.
In addition to the results from tests he underwent at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan last week, Trump, 70, produced a letter from his longtime physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, in which Bronstein said, “In summary, Mr. Trump is in excellent health.”
Hours earlier, his campaign released the letter from Bronstein to media outlets. It was the second Bronstein wrote addressing Trump’s health. The one-page letter simply attested to Trump’s general health. The report from the hospital contained some specifics on blood pressure, height, weight and cholesterol numbers.
Trump admitted to Oz that he does eat a fair amount of fast food when he's on the road campaigning, and that the person who picks it up is told not to tell the restaurant it is for him because he worries the food may be tampered with.
Perhaps taking a swipe at opponent Hillary Clinton’s recent bout with pneumonia, Trump also told Oz in the show that was taped Wednesday, “"I think when you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy.”
Here’s some of the other things Trump shared with Oz:
• Trump had his appendix out when he was 11 and says that’s the only time he has even been hospitalized, adding that if he goes to a hospital now, "it's going to be out there bigly."
• "I feel as good today as I did when I was 30," he said.
• "I think if I had one thing, I'd like to lose weight. It's tough because of the way I live, but the one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds. It would be good.”
Oz, reading from a summary of exam results, told the audience:
• That Trump is 6-foot, 3-inches tall and weighs 236 pounds
• That his blood pressure and cholesterol levels are within normal levels, as is his testosterone level
• That he had an echocardiogram of his heart and a chest x-ray performed
• That he takes statins, which are used to lower cholesterol levels
• That his Body Mass Index is 29.5 which is considered overweight, but not obese
• That Trump also takes a low dose of aspirin daily
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