Back in December – a geological epoch ago in terms of Donald Trump’s fuckups – the Republican Presidential nominee’s website presented a letter from his physician Dr. Harold Bornstein, espousing the man’s supposedly stellar health.
Despite all evidence suggesting that the man is, in fact, a pumpkin-cross-scarecrow homonculus, Dr. Bornstein wrote that Trump is actually in remarkably good nick. A fair dinkum lifelong avoidance of smoking and drinking may have helped there.
Then, Dr. Bornstein went and wrote “if elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Welp, NBC went ahead and gave the good doctor a quick grilling about that weird, weird letter. As it turns out, Dr. Bornstein pumped it out in five minutes. And didn’t even bother to proofread it.
“Well, I thought about it all day, and at the end I get rushed and I get anxious when I’m rushed. So, I thought if I got four or five lines out as fast as I could, they’d be happy.”
On using Trump’s wide array of superlatives, he said “I think I picked up his kind of language and then just interpreted it to my own,” which also inspires quite a bit of confidence.
Photo: Alex Wong / Twitter / donaldjtrump.com.