The secret of Donald Trump's health. The environment speaks of the president's “divine vigor”.

Trump calls himself the “most transparent” president in history, but obtaining accurate information about his health is a difficult task, the biweekly wrote. There have been times in the past where Trump has hidden the truth on this topic – added the magazine.

During the first presidential campaign, Trump's personal physician, Harold Bornstein, published a letter in which he stated that the future president's health was “astonishingly good.” The doctor later admitted that the letter was written by Trump himself. At the end of 2020, Trump reportedly suffered from Covid, which was much more serious than he and his advisers admitted. Mark Meadows, then chief of staff, reportedly thought the president was going to die.

The secret of Trump's health. “It's divine vigor”

Despite opposition from Trump, 79, the White House knows it's time to talk about his health amid widespread speculation about Trump's fitness to hold office, New York Magazine wrote. The fact that Trump constantly claims to be in “perfect health” only reinforces people's belief that something is wrong – noted the magazine.

The magazine's Ben Terris spoke with Trump, two doctors — Sean Barbabella and James Jones — and White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt in the Oval Office in December.

“I feel the same way I did 40 years ago,” Trump said during that interview. The journalist assessed that Trump looks slimmer in real life than on television, although the president assures that he has never taken GLP-1 drugs. In April, Trump weighed 101.5 kg, and in December he reported that he weighed approximately 106.5 kg. He's a little stooped and has swollen eyesbut in the journalist's opinion, Trump “looks quite good for his age.”

One staff member said Trump's “only concession” to his age is that he no longer dyes his hair blonde, but has instead gone natural gray. Another source said his hearing had deteriorated slightly.

What is Donald Trump's health really like?

As the magazine reminds, Trump's right hand is still bruised and often bandaged. During last week's forum in Davos, a bruise was noticed on the president's left hand. Leavitt explained that it was because the president hit the table with his hand. The White House insists that the bruises on Trump's hand are the result of shaking hands frequently with other people and Trump taking aspirin every day.

– I want rare blood. Really thin blood, Trump said, explaining why he takes aspirin every day. He told a New York Magazine journalist that he had been doing this for 30 years. In 2016, he admitted to taking 325 mg of aspirin a day.

Trump also maintained that cuts on the right hand are caused by women's fingernails and rings. He said one “particularly nasty cut” was the result of Attorney General Pam Bondi's botched high-five.

In July, photos emerged showing Trump's swollen ankles. Doctors diagnosed him with chronic venous insufficiency of the lower limbs. In August, after he had not participated in public events for some time, speculation began on social media that Trump was dead. — Friends called me and said: it's good that you answered the phone. Because there are reports that you are dead, he told New York Magazine.

— In short: is my health perfect? Trump asked doctors during the interview. “Your health is excellent,” Jones replied.

“He doesn't eat vegetables, I don't know how he lives”

Trump, approaching eighty, began “sharing anecdotes about his father” – says a senior White House official. The president talks about how it was only when his father retired that he started behaving like an old man. Father Fred Trump died in 1999 at the age of 93. The president emphasized that he had practically never been sick throughout his life. – He had one problem. At the age of around 86-87 he started having… what do you call it? (…) This Alzheimer's disease. I don't have it, he assured.

Trump's diet is terrible, wrote New York Magazine. The president eats a lot of sweets and meat, and does not eat vegetables. “I don't know how he's alive – said the head of the Department of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump also doesn't do sports and doesn't sleep much (five hours is enough sleep, according to him).

Many people in Trump's inner circle were eager to tell the magazine about the president's “divine vigor.” “He can work harder and has better memory and more vitality and more energy than a normal mortal,” maintained Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff. “The title of your article should be: Superhuman President,” he added.

“This guy is too healthy,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. – He's too active – added Rubio, who, in addition to heading the State Department, holds many other positions, such as acting national security adviser and chief archivist of the United States. The magazine described Rubio as “one of the busiest men in Washington.”

Trump doesn't sleep. “I'm hiding from him”

The Secretary of State admitted that he needs rest during foreign flights, while the president himself never sleeps on a plane. So Rubio spends some of his cruises hiding from Trump. — There is an office with two sofas and I usually want to sleep on one of them (…) I wrap myself in a cocoon with a blanket. I cover my head. I look like a mummy. I do this because I know that at some point during the flight (Trump) will come out of the cabin and start walking around and checking who's awake. I want him to think it's a staff member who fell asleep. I don't want him to see his Secretary of State sleeping on the couch and think this guy is weak Rubio said.

When asked whether Trump takes naps – which could be indicated by recordings of various meetings in which Trump has his eyes closed – Rubio said that this is how Trump listens to others. Leavitt also emphasized that this is Trump's way of “actively listening.”

Trump, however, offered a different explanation for why he keeps his eyes closed during cabinet meetings. – It's so boring. Everyone says in turn, I have 28 people, the last (meeting) lasted 3.5 hours. I have to sit and listen and I move my hand so they know I'm listening. I hear every word and I can't wait for it to end – he said.

The magazine noted that there is so much conflicting evidence in the public space that anyone can fit something into their views about Trump's health. On the one hand, Trump falls asleep during meetings, on the other hand, he was able to speak standing for over an hour at night rallies. He goes on exhausting trips abroad, but when he returns his voice may sound bad for several days. In early January, Trump stayed up all night to follow the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. But, as the media noted, he had difficulty climbing the stairs of Air Force One.

In January, his mental competence was called into question when he demanded that the US take control of Greenland because he had not received the Nobel Peace Prize, the magazine noted. Trump, of course, does not agree with people who say that his cognitive functions are deteriorating. “Some common worrying signs of mental deterioration – chaotic behavior, convoluted statements, threats to attack Greenland because of the lack of a Nobel Peace Prize — may also prove that Trump is just Trump,” wrote the author of the publication.

When a journalist asked one of the doctors in the Oval Office who was healthier: Trump or former President Barack Obama, the doctor – after eye contact with the president – replied that Trump. The president nodded and turned to the journalist: “write it.”