Former president Donald Trump who will be the oldest president in history to be inaugurated if he wins the election has not revealed his detailed medical report — a ground on which the Kamala Harris campaign has upped its attack on the GOP. Vice president Kamala Harris released her full health record where she had been deemed as fit to be the president. The vice president asked her opponent to do the same and questioned his mental agility as there are only three weeks left for the election.
Donald Trump is 78-year-old and his team has Kennedy Jr who wants to Make America Healthy Again.
Donald Trump’s health: Here is what we know
- Former White House physician Jeffrey Kuhlman told Axios that Donald Trump never smoked but he is overweight. He said Trump appears to be in good health for his age but raised concerns about his cognitive ability for critical decision making. Kuhlman never examined Donald Trump.
- Donald Trump is 6 feet 3 inches tall, according to records. His weight is 244 pounds (110 kg). He is medically obese. However, there are many records of Trump’s height and weight. He self-reported his weight as 215 pounds (97.5 kg) in 2020. Another record from 2018 said his weight was 239 pounds (108 kg).
- In 2018, it was revealed that he had high cholesterol which dropped by 2020, Axios reported.
- Trump has parental history of dementia as his father Fred Trump was diagnosed with dementia in 1991 when he was 86. Fred was later found to have Alzheimer’s disease.
- In 2018, it was reported that Trump had a common form of heart disease which was easy to address if he increased the dose of his cholesterol-lowering medication. This was diagnosed by the Mayo Clinic.
Trump boasts of doing well as a cognitive test though it is not certain which one he speaks about. In 2018, he was given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment under Dr Ronny Jackson and he had a perfect score of 30 out of 30, according to reports.