Doctor releases letter claiming Trump will be 'healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency'
Dr. Harold Bornstein, Trump's longtime personal physician, released a letter stating Trump's 'laboratory results are astonishingly excellent' and declaring he would be 'the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.' The hyperbolic language and superlative claims were unusual for a medical document. In 2018, Bornstein admitted Trump had dictated the entire letter himself while his limousine waited outside the office. The fabricated medical letter became a foundational example of Trump's willingness to falsify health documentation and use medical professionals as props for self-aggrandizement during the 2016 campaign.
“If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” — Dr. Harold Bornstein letter, December 14, 2015 (later revealed to be dictated by Trump) Quote verified against source
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AI commentaryThis letter established the template for Trump's health mythology: superlative claims ('astonishingly excellent'), fake medical authority, and projection of superhuman fitness. The 2018 revelation that Trump dictated it himself exposed the fraud, but by then it had served its campaign purpose. The letter transformed medical documentation from objective assessment into campaign propaganda, with a physician's letterhead lending false credibility to Trump's self-authored fiction.