The US president claimed that he was in ‘perfect health’ before then having a pop at his predecessor, Joe Biden, dubbing him the ‘worst thing that ever happened to older people’
US President Donald Trump has once again given the internet a collective head-scratch after seemingly forgetting what medical condition his late father had before claiming he himself doesn’t have it. The Orange Manbaby was talking during an interview in the Oval Office about his health when suddenly he had to ask his press secretary for help.
He described his father Fred Trump, who died in 1999 aged 93, as a man with a “heart that couldn’t be stopped” and virtually no health problems. But he then stumbled, saying: “He had one problem”, before trailing off.
“At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting, what do they call it?”
He pointed at his forehead and looked towards Karoline Leavitt, who told him “Alzheimer’s”. It was then that the 79-year-old quickly added: “Well, I don’t have it,” according to New York Magazine’s Ben Terris.
When asked if it was something he ever worried about, Trump brushed it off completely. “No, I don’t think about it at all,” he said, before launching into a ramble about doctors, health checks and how he’s in “perfect health”.
He claimed he has regular physicals so that US citizens know that their president is healthy – and couldn’t resist a jab at his Joe Biden, calling him “the worst thing that ever happened to older people”.
Trump then insisted age is no barrier, boasting he knows people in their 90s who are “100%”, name-dropping retired golf legend Gary Player, 90, and claiming: “He shot 70 with me the other day.”
The interview also featured Trump rubbing his hands and insisting marks on them were “only from shaking hands”, something he reportedly said to other journalists.
Elsewhere, Trump apparently looked slimmer than on TV and though flatly denied using weight-loss jabs, dismissing them as “the fat drug”.
After Terris shared Trump’s comments about Alzheimer’s in an X post (formerly known as Twitter), social media users were left stunned. One wrote: “You really can’t make this s**t up,” while another said: “spoiler alert: he has it”.
A third added: “Just the fact that Trump has BRAGGED that he aced 3 cognitive tests in the 12 months he’s been in office…. Not even realizing that normal healthy people don’t perform ANY cognitive tests unless there’s a problem.”
A fourth person made his feelings clear about Trump, commenting: “That’s not the only word that escapes Trump. How about compassion, concern, decency, integrity, intelligence, morals, truthfulness. I could go on and on.”
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