Donald Trump's Upper East Side Doctor Gives Bizarre Interview

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Donald Trump's doctor, who maintains a practice on the Upper East Side, is almost as big a character as the president-elect himself. Harold Bornstein, Trump's primary physician since the 80s, gave a bizarre interview with health-centric publication STAT News in which he talked about Ronald Reagan's dementia and shrugged off the possibility of Donal Trump dying in office.

In the interview Bornstein admitted that it "never occurred" to him that Trump would be the oldest person to be sworn into the office of the presidency, and that if Trump died in office it wouldn't be any more spectacular than anyone else dying.

"If something happens to him, then it happens to him," Bornstein told STAT news. "It’s like all the rest of us, no? That’s why we have a vice president and a speaker of the House and a whole line of people. They can just keep dying."

Bornstein gained some fame this year when he reportedly wrote a letter claiming Donald Trump would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency" in five minutes as he waited on a limo sent for him by Trump.

The letter, dated Dec. 4, 2015, was positively Trump-ian, saying the candidate's lab test results "were astonishingly excellent" and that "his physical strength and stamina are extraordinary."

Read the full STAT News interview with Harold Bornstein here.

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