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Dr. Oz Accidentally Fuels Growing Speculation About Trump’s Health During Presser

Dr. Oz made some curious comments about Trump's many doctor's appointments.

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There’s been a lot of speculation in recent months about why President Donald Trump is going to the doctor so often, and whether he’s facing a health issue he isn’t disclosing.

On Tuesday, one administration official tried to explain, and it didn’t go so well.

According to The Hill, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, was asked about Trump’s doctor visits at Tuesday’s White House briefing.

Oz, the former TV doctor who also ran for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, said at the briefing that Trump told him he underwent a “routine, regular exam.”

“I had the president on my show 10 years ago, and he also presented records, and at the time I was stunned at how well he was doing, because so many of these numbers naturally over time will start going in the wrong direction,” Oz said of the president. He also called the president’s health “spectacular.”

“That amount of energy and that amount of mental acuity does not exist in a vacuum,” Dr. Oz continued in the briefing. “You have to have a vessel to carry it, and the president has unique ability to just keep going at all hours of the day with remarkable strength.”

Even more strangely, Dr. Oz said that Trump keeps going for checkups, including three in 13 months at Walter Reed Hospital, because he “likes the results.”

“I think he likes the results. He does really well,” Dr. Oz said. “He aces the test every single day, and I do actually believe that he is curious to make sure everything is going in the right direction.”

There were some amused reactions to the admission:

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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