Donald Trump's Medical Records Reviewed by Dr. Oz | Dr. Oz | S8 | Ep 19 | Full Episode
Dr. Oz examines Donald Trump’s health claims, including his denial of issues despite statin use for cholesterol and a BMI near 30 (236 lbs at 6’3”). Trump ties his stamina to genetics, dismissing public record-sharing, and links addiction policies to his brother Fred’s early death from alcoholism. He criticizes Obamacare’s rising premiums—like Texas’s 60% Blue Cross hike—and proposes private plans with expanded Medicaid, while blaming opioid crises on unchecked southern border drug flows, citing 22 deaths in one weekend. His childcare tax reforms, pushed by Ivanka, aim to address wage gaps tied to caregiving, but he stops short of prescription-free birth control access. Ultimately, the episode contrasts Trump’s self-proclaimed vitality with his divisive health policy stances, framing them through personal anecdotes and political rhetoric. [Automatically generated summary]
Everyone's talking about the candidates' medical records.
When you're running for president, you have an obligation to be healthy.
Is he fit to be president?
Let's talk about stamina.
At age 70, you'll be the oldest person to ever enter the Oval Office.
And the moment, no one expecting.
Why not share your medical records?
I have it right here.
I mean, should I do it?
I don't care.
Coming up next, we'll save lives today.
We are ready to get healthy.
53 days between now and Election Day, when Americans head to the polls to vote for president.
Our report released this week shows this is a major cause of stress in America.
As a doctor, first and foremost, I'm focused on the nation's health, our shared anxiety over access to quality health care, and the health crisis that we have to combat over the next four years, whatever they may be.
In addition, the health of the candidates has become a front and center issue in this campaign, and calls for more transparency have never been louder.
To get answers to all of these critical issues, I've invited both presidential candidates to come onto my show.
Today, we're starting with the Republican nominee, Mr. Donald Trump.
Now, we've also invited Secretary Hillary Clinton, and she's considering our invitation.
Let's get started.
Please welcome the Republican nominee for President of the United States, Mr. Donald Trump.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you.
Great honor.
So as a doctor, I'm always focused on the person directly in front of me.
And so I think we should agree that we're not going to discuss Secretary Clinton.
Is that okay?
I think it's fine.
We want her to get well.
So I think that's fine.
How do you stay healthy on the campaign trail?
Well, it's a lot of work.
You know, when I'm speaking in front of 15 and 20,000 people and I'm up there using a lot of motion, I guess in its own way, it's a pretty healthy act.
And I really enjoy doing it.
A lot of times these rooms are very hot like saunas.
And I guess that's a form of exercise.
And, you know.
So everyone's talking about the candidates' medical records.
Right.
So I'd like to clear up some questions that folks have been asking about your health.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, I'm hoping to go over these exact same questions with Secretary Clinton.
And I'll say, as a doctor, when I have someone in front of me and I don't know much about them, I do something called the review of systems.
We all do.
We learn this in medical school.
And it's a checklist head to toe of what's going on in your body.
So I'll walk through these questions if it's okay.
We start with the head.
So have you ever had head or neck issues?
No.
Neurologic problems, strokes, headaches?
No.
Any problems with the wood?
We have wood around here.
Oh, water.
Wood.
Okay.
No, the answer is no.
I've had, I mean, no.
No problem.
Hormone problems like thyroid issues?
Nope.
Blood sugar problems?
Nope.
Diabetes.
Any heart problems?
Nope.
I know you're on Lipitor or I take a statin.
I don't know if I should mention the name, I would, but.
I take a statin.
And actually, I've experimented with three statins, and one seems for me to work the best.
And it's really brought my cholesterol down into a good range.
How long have you been on it?
Couple of years, I would say.
A couple of years.
Lung complaints, asthma, wheezing?
No, nothing.
I mean, really nothing.
It's been, people are amazed because I don't get much with the colds.
Sometimes in the spring or in the fall, I'll get a little hay fever.
And that comes and goes.
Actually, I don't know why this would be.
It used to be worse when I was young.
Maybe it's given up on me.
But when I was young, it could be pretty rough, the hay fever.
But very, very little now.
And I don't know if that's something that you're not that surprised at.
But the hay fever is not very bad.
But that would be about the only thing.
I haven't had a cold in a long time.
Years.
Stomach problems, intestine issues, reflux, styleticulitis, bladder or prostate issues.
I saw the one letter that was released had a low PSA.
Yeah, my PSA has been very good.
I've been, I don't know what's going on, but so many of my friends are having problems where they're getting the operation or they're going for radiation.
And it's always the first number I ask for.
I say, give me that number.
I want to know.
And my number has been, as you say, a very good number.
It's been very good.
Any history of personal cancer?
No, none whatsoever.
Skin issues?
No, very little.
I mean, probably you could say, I try and stay out of the sun for the most part.
I wear a hat.
I play golf.
And I wear a hat, but I've had no problem, no major problem, but certainly no problem with skin.
Blood clots or any other blood problems?
Let me turn to the family history.
I have to be very boring for you, right?
No, no.
It's going to be very boring.
It's what I do as a doctor.
I would tell you, you know, my wife's a big fan of your show, and I would absolutely say, because I view this as, in a way, going to see my doctor.
It's just a little bit public, that's all.
Let me ask you if I can about family history, and I'm most concerned with problems that happened before your parents or other relatives were younger than 65 years of age.
So any dementia or Alzheimer's?
No, my father had, he was close to 94 years old.
And the last few years, he developed, we probably think it was Alzheimer's, which was very hard for us because he was such a smart guy, such a wonderful guy, and you know, that's a rough thing.
Physically, he was unbelievable.
His heart was powerful.
Wouldn't stop.
I mean, it wouldn't stop.
And he lived to a very old age and was really great right up toward the end.
My mother was mentally unbelievable.
And she actually had an accident.
She would have lived well into her 90s.
She was close to 90, but she would have lived well into her 90s.
Her family, even this is many years ago, but her family would routinely go into their high 90s.
Any history amongst them or other relatives of cancer or heart disease at a young age?
No.
None.
When was the last time that you had a regular physical exam?
Well, I'd try and do it every year.
I've had the same doctor for a long time.
And somebody said, oh, why don't you change?
I said, you know, I've been lucky.
I'm here.
I'm sort of, are we a little superstitious?
You have to say, I'm not looking to find some genius.
And all of a sudden, I just want, I have a very good doctor.
I think he's been, he's done a really good job for me.
He's a member of Lenox Hill Hospital, respected person.
And I went to him on Friday and I had a test.
And I just got the, I literally just got the results.
Of your medical test.
Of my medical test.
This is with Dr. Bornstein?
Dr. Bornstein, yeah.
Respected, respected guy, good guy.
And I've been with him for a long time.
I mean, a lot of people say, well, you could change doctors.
And I just say, you know what?
I've been with them probably over 30 years.
I think the last thing I want to do is switch doctors.
So let me ask you: if your health is as strong as it seems from your review of systems, why not share your medical records?
When you look into the mirror, how old is the person you're looking at?
What do you see?
If elected at age 70, you'll be the oldest person to ever enter the Oval Office.
Why do you think you have the stamina for the job?
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If your health is as strong as it seems from your review of systems, why not share your medical records?
Why not?
Well, I have really no problem in doing it.
I have it right here.
I mean, should I do it?
I don't care.
It's two letters.
One is the report, and the other is from Lenox Hill Hospital.
May I see them?
Yes, sure.
So these are the report this is from.
Those were all the tests they were just done last week.
September 13th, 2016.
Again, it's from Dr. Bornstein.
It says, first of all, thank you for sharing this.
This is a pretty comprehensive.
Can I read it to you real quickly and I'll try to quickly interpret it?
Sure.
Cholesterol is, well, you're 6'3, 236 pounds.
Cholesterol is 169.
The HDL, which is the healthy cholesterol, 63.
The lousy LDL cholesterol is 94.
Those are good numbers.
Triglycerides are 61.
That's the amount of fat in your blood.
The PSA, like the other letter that was published earlier, is 0.15, which is very low.
Blood pressure is 116 over 70.
Blood sugar, 99.
That's good, 116 over 70.
Yeah, I mean.
I've always been lucky with blood pressure.
I've always had very good blood pressure.
Blood sugar of 99 and a C-reactive protein is also low.
So your liver function, your thyroid function is all normal.
You had a colonoscopy performed July 10th, 2013, which is normal with no polyps.
Calcium score in your heart in 2013 also was low at 98.
My goodness.
EKG chess X-ray on April 14th was normal.
A normal echocardiogram was done two years ago.
And your testosterone is 441, which is actually good.
And you're only on this statin drug that you mentioned.
If a patient of mine had these records, I'd be really happy.
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And I'd send them on their way.
That's good.
I must say, I would have shared this earlier.
Why didn't you blast this out?
I didn't think it was necessary.
You know, the public's known me for a long time.
They've never seen me in a hospital.
And one thing, if I'm on a hospital, it's going to be out there, big league.
And I had my appendix out when I was 11.
And that was the last time I was in a hospital.
And that was a one-night deal.
So I spent basically one night in a hospital.
So, you know, I'm very fortunate in that respect.
But genetically, I mean, I think you're probably a believer in that.
A lot of people say that's sort of the most important thing.
My parents lived very long lives.
My mother's family was amazing because everybody over in Scotland, everybody was into their 90s, late 90s, I mean beyond.
And my father, very similar, A little bit different, but very similar.
So my parents lived very long lives and good lives too.
They're great people, but good lives.
I thank you for sharing this.
It does help address some of the comments about the candidates' health, which I think in this modern era, people expect to know enough about the people we're voting for to know that they're safe.
So I'm appreciative.
Well, I do feel that, you know, the questions often asked, like, should you show, it's very private.
It's all very private stuff.
Should you be showing it?
I think when you're running for president of the United States, or maybe any other country, in all fairness, but when you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy.
I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy.
I don't think you can represent the country properly if you're not a healthy person.
And, you know, I've been going around.
I started this journey for president on June 16th.
And since then, I've probably taken off like almost no days.
I've been going from state to state, from city to city.
And so in a certain way, I get a lot of exercise, more exercise than people would think.
Besides golf, is that your major exercise?
Yeah, I don't play much golf, though, lately.
We have a president who plays so much golf, he could be on the PGA tour.
But I don't.
Let's focus on our.
No, no.
We're going to focus on Mr. Trump.
I don't know how he does.
We're going to focus on you.
Let's talk about stamina.
You've used that word a lot.
You made an issue in this campaign.
You argue that a president has to have a tremendous amount of stamina.
If elected at age 70, you would be the oldest person to ever enter the Oval Office.
Why do you think you have the stamina for the job?
Yeah, just about the same age as Ronald Reagan.
And Hillary's a year behind me.
I would say just based on my life.
I mean, I've had, I actually, and I don't know if this makes sense, I feel as good today as I did when I was 30.
And you mentioned golf because I've been a good golfer over the years.
I've won a lot of club championships and things.
And that's a good mentality because to win a club championship, you have to be very strong up here.
And when I play golf, I feel that I'm maybe a better golfer today than I was 15, 20 years ago.
I don't know what it is.
I hit the ball as far.
Now, maybe the equipment's a little bit better.
I always say the equipment's better, the muscles are a little bit worse.
But whatever it is.
I mean, I hit the ball as far, hit the ball better.
I putt just as well.
You know, that has to do with the hands.
You can't have problems with hand movement if you're going to be a good putter.
But, you know, just as an indication, I think I'm a better player today than I was 15, 20, 30 years ago.
When you wake up in the morning.
But I don't get to play very much anymore.
When you look into the mirror, how old is the person you're looking at?
What do you see?
I would say I see a person that's 35 years old.
No, I mean, I feel the same.
I feel the same.
I mean, you know, Tom Brady is a friend of mine.
We play golf together.
They're a great quarterback.
He's a phenomenal guy, great athlete.
And I'm with him, and I feel the same age as him.
It's crazy.
How many hours a night do you sleep?
And what's your sleep like?
Well, I've never needed much sleep, but I've always said that's a function of do you enjoy life.
I don't know if that makes sense to you.
Like, you love what you do.
I love what I do.
I'm even loving politically what I do.
You know, I'm having a lot of fun.
It's a lot of work, but I love, it's called Make America Great Again.
I love what we're doing.
I love this movement that's been created.
Many of the big political commentators have said this is the single greatest political event that they've ever seen.
You know, what's happened with this whole Trump thing?
And really, it's not me.
It's like I'm a messenger.
It's the movement where you say a day before that you're going to be in Charlotte, North Carolina, and 20,000 people show up and pack an arena and they have to turn away 10.
So a lot of it has, well, I don't find stress.
I find that if I go to, let's say somebody said, and I'm fortunate because I have a wonderful wife that understands me, and she'll say, you don't want to go on vacation.
She'd like to go on vacation, by the way, but she's not selfish.
But I find that if I go on a vacation, it's like that's more stress to me because I want to get back.
And if I go on a vacation where they don't have phones, I did that once, 20 years ago.
I went on a vacation where the phones were, you know, like one of these things where you're not supposed to make phone calls and you weren't able to make phone calls.
And I lasted about a day and a half.
I said, let's get out of here.
This is terrible.
If running for president and running a company or companies doesn't cause you stress, I mean, what does?
Something has to boil.
I think running for president causes more stress than, you know, I built a great company.
I have an unbelievable company.
And that hasn't been stressful over the last number of years.
Now, when you're building it, it's more stress than everything else.
And you're always going to be over-leveraged and you're fighting with banks.
But now it's become just a great, great company.
And so there's not stress there.
I think running for president is.
One of the reasons is the media is so dishonest.
You know, they come up with stories that aren't true and you try and knock the hell out of the story and you're always fighting.
You get angry about that?
And we know anger hostility has significant health consequences.
How do you cope with that?
How do you get past that?
I fight back.
I mean, I fight back.
Not for the press, but in anything.
Anything else?
It's a great question.
I don't think it matters that much.
What does it matter?
You saw the polls.
The polls are really the last, especially over the last week.
The polls have been unbelievable.
And I'll tell you what, in theory, if it mattered, I wouldn't be leading national.
CNN just came out with a poll where I'm up to nationally.
If what didn't matter?
If the press mattered so much, it's amazing.
It doesn't matter as much like it used to matter.
So what type of temperament is required for the person who becomes president of the United States?
Unbelievable, strong, and smart temperament.
And I think it's my greatest asset.
I think temperament is my single greatest asset.
Why do so many people question your temperament?
They don't question Madison Avenue.
Madison Avenue went to Hillary Clinton, and they said, and when I say mad, I'm talking about the advertising people, the people that make up the ads.
And they said, let's see, and they put 15 things on a board.
Oh, temperament.
Let's go after temperament.
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The people that know me, I win.
I know how to win.
You can't win unless you have a great temperament.
I know people that can't win.
I know people that are very talented at sports and they never win because they've been on temperament.
Making decisions under pressure is the most important part probably of a president's job description.
How do you prepare yourself for those big decisions?
Well, I think I've been prepared.
That's what I do.
That's what my whole life is.
I mean, a big decision was when I decided to run on June 16th.
I'd never done this before.
They had won, I think it was sort of funny because I was about five or six months into the campaign when I was going for the nomination.
And, you know, I was against 17 people, mostly senators, governors, all at the highest level of their profession.
And I came in, and they said that I had five months' experience, and they had 219 years.
In other words, when you added it all up, so people would say, oh, based on that, I mean, how do you win?
And I ended up winning.
And winning, I'm so happy to say, with the highest number of votes in the history of the Republican Party.
There's never been anything like that.
So when I graduated from medical school, I took an oath to do no harm.
Do you have an oath or a mantra that you repeat back to yourself?
No, I don't repeat it back to myself, but I tell you my theme and what I'm living for now is making America great again.
That's what I want to do.
I want to make America great again.
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Ivanka Trump is here.
So your latest initiative is to improve on child care in this country, and you want affordable and accessible care.
People don't realize that it's the single largest household expense.
My father has created a plan that is designed to bring relief and to provide working parents with options so that they can make the decisions that are in the best interests of their families.
Safe, affordable, high-quality childcare should not be the luxury of a fortunate few.
Mr. Trump takes great pride in the fact that his children are a big part of his inner circle.
Today, his oldest daughter and trusted advisor, Ivanka Trump, is here.
Please come on out.
Hi, everyone.
Hi, everyone.
So your latest initiative is improved on child care in this country, and you want affordable and accessible care.
And that's at the very beginning, why are you so passionate about this?
Why is it an important issue for you?
Well, it's an enormous issue facing so many American families, tens of millions of American families.
The cost of child care has become so onerous and so crushing, and there needs to be a solution to this.
The reality is that 47% of women are in the workforce, and the economic policies that are in place that were put in place by the government are almost 65 years old.
So they need to be re-envisioned, and there needs to be relief to families who are unable to afford the cost.
And we think we've come up with an incredible plan to do that.
And the tax code also has to be neutral as it pertains to people's decisions whether they're going to work or stay at home and raise their families.
So one of the areas of this plan that I think is rather revolutionary is that stay-at-home mothers will also be recognized and given the credit that they deserve for the work that they're done, that they do.
Could you walk us through some of the basic components of the plan?
Sure.
There are many components of the plan, and one of which I just mentioned, but there's going to be a tax deduction for the average cost of child care in each individual state, up to four children, and that will come out of income tax.
If you're a lower-income worker who doesn't pay income tax, it will be an expansion of the existing earned income tax credit.
So there'll be a rebate on the costs associated with their child care as well, which is very, very important because lower-income families really need the relief the most.
And as I had mentioned, for stay-at-home parents, mother or father, they get the benefit of that on their income taxes as well.
So finally appreciating the value that they provide.
I think one other area that is so important as well is dependent care.
So in addition to the tax credit I just mentioned, we're creating something called a dependent care savings account, sort of like a health care savings account that you can apply pre-tax dollars into.
And actually for lower income earners, the government will match 50% up to $1,000 to encourage savings.
It rolls over year after year, so you can add a lot of money into that, but it applies to dependent care as well because so many people, especially women, are taking care of adult dependents in addition to children.
And that's why now motherhood, because we're often the caregiver, whether it's children or adult dependents, motherhood is now the single biggest predictor of wage inequality, not gender.
A lot of people say you're the secret weapon behind your father's campaign.
I don't know about that.
But let's look at the Ivanka effect.
I just pulled these off.
I think you raised children who are deeply passionate about having a positive impact.
And we've tried to do that in a smaller way in our personal lives, in our communities, and in our businesses.
And campaigning for president gives us the opportunity to do it in a much more meaningful way and really elevate issues that are so important, discuss them, propose solutions.
Just to give you some numbers for the Ivanka fact, for everybody else, 2.1 million followers on Twitter, 1.5 million on Facebook, 1.1 million on Instagram.
That's more than Sheryl Sandberg.
So there are many people who feel passionate about making this country great, but not everyone resonates.
What is it about your message that you think is working with women?
Well, for years, and obviously long before the journey of the past year and a half, I've been deeply passionate about celebrating the fact that women are multidimensional and that we really want to disrupt this caricature of what it looks like to be a working woman or what it looks like to be a stay-at-home mother.
We're all working.
There's no woman who's not working.
So whether you're working at raising a family, whether you're working at advancing your career, or whether you're doing both collectively, we're all working.
So, you know, I like to say that the expression working man is one you've never heard, but people talk about working women and there's a stereotype and it's often negative.
So I like, and part of my mission and so core to the community I've built is really celebrating the stories of so many different women who are working hard at creating lives they want to live.
Mr. Trump, you're absolutely proud of all your kids.
And you've celebrated the fact that they're an important part of your life.
They're trusted advisors in your businesses and on the campaign trail.
What role do you anticipate your children playing in administration if you're elected?
Well, I must say Ivanka and my other, all of my children, they've been so involved and they've been so helpful.
In the case of Ivanka, she really, the child care thing has been so important to her for so long.
Before we did this, she used to say, I don't know how people do it.
Last night, just one story quickly, we met with about 20 mothers and a couple of gentlemen too, by the way, who are also, you know, there's a lot of men involved in this that are getting absolutely, they are getting hurt so badly.
But we met with these 20 people.
They were incredible people and they had some just unbelievable and sad, very sad stories to tell.
And I got a very heavy dose of what's going on.
And I will tell you, under the plan that we're doing, they will be helped so much.
And Ivanka was always saying, Dad, we've got to do something about childcare.
It's just so unfair.
And we really saw it with those people last night, how tough it is.
Most people don't realize that it's the single largest household expense in much of this country, even exceeding the cost of housing.
I think this audience knows it.
There need to be new solutions put out.
You've spoken publicly with your siblings about Donald Trump the father.
But my life changed recently.
I became a grandfather.
And I'm curious.
But Donald Trump, the grandfather, you have eight grandchildren, right?
I have right now I have eight.
Making sure I got it right here.
So I have three children, five years and under.
I have a five-month-old as well.
And they don't quite grasp the concept of a presidential run.
So my daughter frequently asks me if grandpa has won the debate yet.
But she's learning.
She's cute.
She has asked a few of the parents in her school who they're voting for.
So I think she's starting to learn much quicker.
How's your dad with them?
He's amazing.
He's really great with them.
And we spend a lot of time together during the summer during the weekends in New Jersey.
We have homes right next to each other.
So we're always traipsing off after him to go on adventures.
You know, one of my favorite stories, it happened a couple months ago now, but my daughter and I were walking down the street in New York City and she saw a pothole.
And she points at it, which is sadly not too uncommon in New York City, but she points to it and she looks at me and she goes, Mom, grandpa would not like that.
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So she's used to the meticulousness, so it rubs off on her.
What do they call you?
What do the grandkids call you?
They call me grandpa.
They do?
Yeah, I'm not sure I love that term, but it's okay.
That's who I am.
You don't get the truth.
But that's what they call me.
And they're all great.
I mean, they're just great kids.
We'll be right back.
You have said some unkind things about women.
Do you regret those?
I do think there's a bit of a false narrative on this out there.
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So I consider women the chief health officer of the family.
It's another additional responsibility.
It's sort of discussed in the many different ways you did.
So I wonder if I can't turn to their health.
Sure.
Because as the caregivers, they're the last ones to get health.
So coverage for basic screening is a challenge, which we're going to have to tackle.
But let me talk, if I can, a little bit about a big topic that comes up all the time, which is birth control.
Do you think that it should be mandated in this country that we reimburse women for their birth control?
Well, I think what we have in birth control is, you know, when you have to get a prescription, that's a pretty tough something to climb.
And I would say it should not be a prescription.
It should not be done by prescription.
You have women that just aren't in a position to go get a prescription.
And more and more people are coming out and saying that.
But I am not in favor of prescription for birth control.
What's your stand on abortion today?
I am pro-life.
And there's a misconception that I think you would argue anyway about the views that you have on women.
And this comes up a lot.
Why do you think that there's such a discussion going on now about death problem?
I don't know.
You know, it's very interesting because I just think, look, I have such respect for women.
My mother was one of the great people I've ever known in my life.
I just think that somehow I have a narrative out there.
You know, when you have hundreds of millions of dollars spent on you on advertising, okay, on advertising, on false advertising in many cases, but negative hit jobs, you know, I guess maybe you have said some unkind things about women.
Do you regret those?
It depends on what you're talking about.
I'll give you an example.
When I'm having fun, when I was never going to be a politician, I decided, you know, a year and a half ago, let's do it to straighten out the country because the country is a mess.
But when I, before that, now, had I known I was going to be a politician, Howard Stern's a friend of mine, I wouldn't have done his show.
We have fun.
We have fun.
And a lot of people understand that.
We have fun.
So we'll talk about women, we'll talk about men, we'll talk about everything, and we're all having a good time.
Now, if I ever thought I was running for president, I wouldn't have done the show or I would have given him very boring answers.
But we're all having fun together.
I do think there's a bit of a false narrative on this out there, though, in that, you know, my father speaks his mind.
So whether it's a man or a woman, if you attack him, he'll attack you back.
And in a certain way, it would be strange if he handled women and men differently.
So you can be a little rough with people once in a while, but it's often that they're coming at you first.
Acknowledgement.
It's almost always that they're coming at you first.
I like to be nice to people.
I do, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.
No.
But I think.
You know, I think one of the things that is the ultimate testament is his track record of employing women at the highest levels long before it was popular to do so.
And he's been doing it for 30 years.
I mean, I grew up seeing some of the most amazing female role models at the Trump organization doing what were very much considered at the time men's jobs.
They were in construction, they were in development, and people weren't in those positions, and he was giving them an opportunity to.
And there are women all over the city who are testament to, who are now very successful, have companies that are incredibly well known that rose through the ranks and learned their trade through my father.
So I have a tough time with that narrative because his long track record of supporting, advocating for women and promoting women speaks for itself.
I thank you very much for great approach.
Thank you.
I'll be right back.
I've got a couple more questions for Mr. Trump.
You mentioned that you don't want people dying in the streets.
So what if an undocumented immigrant collapses and needs life-saving therapy?
Should it be a criminal problem or is it a medical problem?
We're going to talk about some of the hot button health issues facing this country first up, addiction.
Just this week, this picture shocked our nation.
You'll see two parents slumped over from a heroin overdose with their four-year-old son in the back seat of the car.
Mr. Trump, you said publicly that we are losing the war on drugs badly.
So how do we turn this around?
Well, we have to stop it at the border.
It's coming in mostly through, as you know, the southern border.
It's pouring in.
And we're going to have to do something.
I was just given the endorsement by 16,500 Border Patrol agents.
They say you're going to be the only one that's going to stop it.
I won't get involved in politics, but other people.
I've been so good.
I've done very well.
But you won't do it.
But I will tell you, we need to have strong borders.
It's just pouring in.
You know, it's less expensive than candy.
You go to the store, you want to buy candy.
You can buy heroin in some places for less.
I go to New Hampshire, I go to Pennsylvania, I go to different places.
It's the biggest.
Ohio is having such a problem.
We're going to have to have very, very strong borders, and we have to stop it because it's poisoning our youth.
It's worse than it's ever been.
I mean, you have cities where they have overdoses, 25 and 30 overdoses a week.
And some of them, last weekend, a certain city, I won't mention which one, 22 people died in one weekend.
So should it be a criminal problem or is it a medical problem?
Well, it's everything.
It's every kind of a problem, but certainly it's a criminal problem for the people that bring it in.
If I ask a personal question, I know your brother, Fred, and you've talked about him, was an alcoholic, died at a very young age, 43.
And I understand you don't drink.
I don't drink.
So how was having an addiction in your family informed or shaped your view on addiction?
Well, I had a great brother named Fred.
He was a very handsome guy.
He was the life of the party.
He was just this incredible guy.
And probably around college time, he started drinking a little bit and then a little bit more and a little bit more.
And it really destroyed his life.
And he was so incredible.
He had everything you could want.
The best looking, the best personality.
He had everything, smart.
But I watched, and he would tell me he knew he had a problem.
And I was quite a bit younger than him.
He would tell me no drugs, no alcohol.
But see, in those days, it wasn't drugs.
But he would say, no drugs, no alcohol, but he would really focus on the alcohol, because that was very much early in the drug cycle.
I don't know how drugs were in those days.
But he would say, and then I would see he also smoked and I would say smoking.
I'd always say, and I tell my kids, no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes.
But the world is so competitive that if you're stuck on drugs or alcohol, you're not going to be able to compete.
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It's going to be a disaster.
And potentially can ruin your life.
All right.
So if elected, you've argued that the Affordable Care Act should no longer be in place.
You wouldn't repeal it.
What can you put in its place that can ensure that we don't have a lot of folks who currently have coverage who would otherwise lose it?
Well, Obamacare, as it's called, is really having a hard time.
Insurance companies are leaving on a daily basis.
They can't do it.
Premiums are through the roof.
You look at the premiums, where in Texas, through Blue Cross Blue Shield, it's gone up 60%.
And 60% is going to be low compared to some of the numbers.
And a lot of the big numbers will be coming out before the election.
They're trying to have the date move till after the election would be very unfair because this is election changing.
It's a disaster.
We have to come up, and we can come up with many different plans.
In fact, plans that you don't even know about will be devised because we're going to come up with plans, health care plans, that will be so good and so much less expensive both for the country and for the people and so much better.
With Obamacare, the deductible, I don't know if you've seen what's gone on with the deductible, the deductible is so high that unless you die a really vicious, horrible, catastrophic death and it lasts a long time, you're not going to get to use it because it's crazy what, you know, it's so high to get, it's such a high barrier.
We have to come up with a plan, a private plan, other than for those that can't do that, we have to help them too.
We have to help them.
So what do we do with the folks who fall through the cracks?
We have to go and we have to help them through the Medicaid system.
We have to help them publicly.
We're going to have to do it.
Nobody wants to see people and it's totally unfair.
And a lot of people said, oh, gee, that's not the thing to say.
I said, well, you know what?
If I can't say that, I'm not running for office.
I mean, there are people that would say everybody should have a great, wonderful private plan.
And if you can't afford that, and there is a percentage, a fairly large percentage that can't afford it, then those people don't get taken care of.
That's wrong.
We're going to take care of that through the Medicaid system.
We're going to take care of those people.
We have no choice.
We're not going to let people die on the streets.
But we will have competition that will be so strong for people's business.
Now, one of the things you have to do is get rid of the monopolies because every state has a line wrapped around it.
And, you know, they'd rather have the insurance companies and the various companies, they'd rather have one state where they're by themselves than be able to bid all over the United States.
You understand that.
We have to get rid of the lines and we'll have competition.
And honestly, Dr. Harris, you will have plans that you don't even know about right now.
They'll get better and better and better, and they'll get cheaper and cheaper.
And it'll be a beautiful thing to see.
But right now, Obamacare is not affordable by the country, and it's not affordable by people.
So you mentioned you don't want people dying in the streets.
So what if an undocumented immigrant collapses and needs life-saving therapy?
Do we have a moral responsibility, do you believe, to help that person?
Well, under my plan, the undocumented or, as you would say, illegal immigrant wouldn't be in the country.
They'd only come in the country illegally.
We'll be right back.
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So I'm still processing this letter because I didn't know we were getting it.
But you're 6'3, 236 pounds, as I mentioned.
In my mind, I'm thinking your body surface area and your BMI is high.
It's probably close to 30, which is sort of the barrier for most people.
Do your doctors or your family ever give you a hard time about your weight?
Yeah, I think I could lose a little weight.
I've always been a little bit this way.
You know, I've sort of always been that way.
I was probably a good swimmer, but I've always been this way.
I think that, yeah, if I had one thing, I'd like to lose weight.
It's tough because of the way I live.
But the one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds.
It would be good.
So you have very kindly offered to take some questions from our audience.
Sure.
Is that still okay?
Sure.
All right.
If I can get a hand mic.
Oh, she got it.
Go ahead.
Hi, sure.
Hi, Mr. Trump.
I'm a teacher and I see obesity every day.
How would you go about handling the obesity problem in the country, especially among children, and the fact that many schools are not providing enough exercise and recess time?
Well, that's a school thing to a certain extent.
I guess you could say it's a hereditary thing, too.
I would imagine it certainly is a hereditary thing.
But a lot of schools aren't providing proper food because they have budget problems and they're buying cheaper food and not as good a food.
And the big thing, when I went to school, I always loved sports and I would always, I love to eat and I love sports and it worked, you know, because I could do both.
A lot of schools today, they don't have sports programs and that's a big problem.
I would try and open that up.
I'm a big believer in the whole world of sports and I would try and open that up very much.
Nicole, go ahead.
Hello, Mr. Trump.
Do you believe the intolerance and prejudices that citizens of this country are spewing back and forth to each other are healthy?
And will this have an effect on the country's mental health?
Well, I think it's very unhealthy, and I think it's very bad.
And we really have to come together as a country.
No, there is a great division, there's no question about it.
I'm sure you see it too.
And we will come together as a country.
Thank you very much for coming on the show.
Thanks for having us so much time with our audience.
Mr. Barrett, thank you very much.
Appreciate your time.
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Thank Mr. Trump for agreeing to be here today to have this wide-ranging conversation on his health and the health of our nation.
I hope to have the opportunity to sit down with Secretary Clinton as well.
We've extended the same invitation to her.
I think it's critical in these last two months before the election to hear from both sides.