Trump's Dr. Oz Appearance Will Be A Complete Joke

The TV personality is essentially letting Trump curate his own episode.
Dr. Oz will analyze Donald Trump's medical records on Thursday's show.
Dr. Oz will analyze Donald Trump's medical records on Thursday's show.
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It took one doctor only five minutes to analyze Donald Trump’s physical to reveal to the world that the presidential candidate has an “astonishingly excellent” bill of health.

For whatever reason, the world didn’t believe that doctor’s bizarre, four-paragraph report, which was written in the back seat of a car. At this point, there’s only one man who can prove to your Aunt Gladys that Trump doesn’t have a degenerative brain condition: known product shill and self-proclaimed hack, Dr. Oz.

Fox News reports that the TV doc will “surprise” Trump with further analysis of his most recent physical on Thursday’s airing of “The Dr. Oz Show.” Trump promised to release the results of that physical this week.

Of course, Dr. Oz plans to do anything but surprise Trump, who will undoubtedly see his own medical records before a show host does. Heck, the presidential candidate may curate the show itself ― reports say Dr. Oz plans to go easy on him, and won’t ask any medical “questions that he doesn’t want to have answered.”

UPDATE 9/14: During the episode’s taping on Wednesday, Trump showed Dr. Oz a one-page summary of the physical exam he received last week. CNN Money reports that the physical was conducted by none other than Harold N. Bornstein, the same doctor who needed a mere five minutes and a few paragraphs to declare that Trump would be the healthiest president in history.

The content of Bornstein’s latest summary hasn’t yet been released, but one page clearly falls short of a full report. In 2008, John McCain released 1,173 pages of his medical records to the press, and opened up his doctors to interviews.

To be fair, Dr. Oz is a real heart surgeon who often gives solid everyday living advice that’s based in scientific literature. But his tendency to rely on discredited reports and inclination to sell “miracle” weight loss products on his show have drawn criticism over the years.

In 2014, he sat in front of a skeptical Congress and admitted that some of the supplements he touts on his show don’t pass “scientific muster.”

“I actually do personally believe in the items I talk about on the show,” he said. “I passionately study them. I recognize they don’t have the scientific muster to present as fact but nevertheless I would give my audience the advice I give my family all the time, and I have given my family these products.”

In any case, if you were looking for a glimpse into Trump’s medical background beyond what he wants you to hear, you’re not getting it on Thursday. You won’t get Hillary Clinton’s bill of health, either, because she declined to be on the show, Mediaite reports.

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

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