Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called questions from the press about President Trump’s health “ridiculous tabloid trash,” saying that it detracted having “meaningful debates.”
“How ridiculous are people?” Paul told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto on Thursday. “And the thing is, we could have meaningful debates in our country.”
“We had a debate over the Fourth Amendment from the Bill of Rights going back to John Adams and James Otis,” Paul said, referencing the debate over the reauthorization of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act. “We had an important debate, and people were wondering about the president’s weight, and did he take a Mensa test and is he a genius – all of this ridiculous tabloid trash.”
Dr. Ronny Jackson, the doctor who performed Trump’s official physical on Friday, fielded questions from reporters about Trump’s health on Tuesday.
Among other concerns, reporters were curious whether Trump was “limited to one scoop of ice cream now” and if Trump watched “too much TV.”
Also on Tuesday, the White House released Trump’s 2018 medical exam, taken last week at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and conducted by Jackson.
Along with the annual physical, the president also insisted on taking a cognitive assessment exam and scored a 30/30 on the test, confirming his doctor’s belief that he does not show any signs of mental deterioration.
