Donald Trump has sparked health concerns after dropping an anti-balding drug linked to depression and ‘man boobs’ from his official medical reports
Donald Trump has raised eyebrows after dropping a well-known hair-loss medication from his official medical records. Finasteride, widely marketed as Propecia, is taken by millions of men across America desperate to keep hold of their locks.
However, the anti-balding drug has vanished from the US President’s publicly disclosed health reports since he reclaimed the Oval Office last January. The mystery absence was also noticeable in his latest medical summary, which was quietly slipped to reporters late on Friday night.
White House insiders have refused to clear up whether Trump has ditched the pills entirely or just wiped them from the record, according to the Washington Post.
The medication is known for a string of side effects, including depression, bedroom performance issues and, in some rare cases, the growth of enlarged male breasts.
Quizzed on the omission, the White House told the Washington Post: “The current report reflects all medications deemed clinically relevant to disclose at this time.”
Officials insisted everything was above board, adding: “No additional undisclosed conditions or procedures materially affecting his health status were omitted from this report.”
But medical experts aren’t buying the silence. Robert Klitzman, a top psychiatrist at Columbia University, warned that stonewalling questions about the hair drug triggers major alarms regarding the 79-year-old President’s true physical state.
Klitzman said: “It raises significant questions of what else is possibly not being revealed.”
He also highlighted the medication’s link to mental health struggles, pointing out that depression could easily impact Trump’s ability to handle the high-stakes demands of the presidency.
Trump is no stranger to accusations of sugar-coating his health. Back in 2015, his former doctor Harold Bornstein caused a stir by writing a note claiming Trump would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Bornstein later let the cat out of the bag in 2018, confessing that Trump had actually “dictated that whole letter.”
The billionaire was also caught out in 2020 after downplaying a severe bout of Covid-19, which saw him holed up at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre for three days with “dangerously low” oxygen levels.
During his current second stint in office, Trump has already clocked up three public visits to the same medical centre, sparking rumours about his swollen ankles, mysterious hand bruising and increasingly bizarre behaviour.
Last October, Trump set tongues wagging by telling reporters he’d undergone an MRI scan, but refused to say what the doctors were actually looking at – only letting it slip that it wasn’t his head.
He said: “It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.” Medical staff waited until December to finally reveal the scan was on his heart and abdomen, claiming both were completely clear.
Friday’s late-night, three-page medical release boldly declared Trump to be in “excellent health” and “fully fit” to run the country.
Yet independent doctors claim the brief document is missing any real data to back up the glowing review. Conveniently left out of the report was a strange rash on the President’s neck that doctors flagged earlier this year.
And while the memo did acknowledge the ongoing dark bruising on Trump’s hands, which the White House claims is just a side effect of taking aspirin for his heart, officials completely refused to reveal exactly how much of the blood-thinning medication he is taking.