Health

White House Doctor: Trump in Extraordinary Health, Refuses to Elaborate

The annual physical produced a three-sentence report describing the President as remarkable, vigorous, and difficult to examine without comment.

WASHINGTON - The White House physician released a short report Tuesday describing Trump as being in extraordinary health. The report contained three sentences, no chart, and one adjective that did more public-relations work than most adjectives are trained for.

The available numbers are boring. Boring is good. His cardiac stress test was unremarkable. His inflammatory markers were within normal range. His blood pressure was lower than several reporters expected and higher than the White House preferred to describe numerically.

"People keep asking what I think. I think the lab values are the lab values." Diane Polk

What the Numbers Say

The numbers do not say he is immortal. They do not say he is a metaphor. They say he is an older adult with test results that do not support the collapse narrative several panelists had warmed up before airtime.

Asked whether extraordinary was a medical term, Diane said no. Asked whether unremarkable would be a better term, she said yes. Asked whether that sounded less useful for television, she said she was aware.