Harold N. Bornstein, Trump's Former Personal Physician, Dies at 73

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times



Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, who for a time was President Donald J. Trump’s personal physician and who had attested that Mr. Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” died on Friday. He was 73. His death was announced on Thursday in a paid notice in The New York Times. The notice did not give a cause or say where he died.

Loquacious, hirsute and eccentric, Dr. Bornstein, a gastroenterologist, was Mr. Trump’s personal physician from 1980 to 2017. He had inherited Mr. Trump as a patient from his father, Dr. Jacob Bornstein, with whom he shared a medical practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, at Park Avenue and 78th Street.

When Mr. Trump was elected president in 2016, Dr. Bornstein had hoped to be named White House physician and suggested as much to a longtime Trump assistant. But he was expelled from the Trump orbit after he disclosed to The Times that the president was taking medication to make his hair grow.Dr. Bornstein came to public attention in December 2015, during his famous patient’s campaign for president.

Mr. Trump, a Republican, had been insinuating that Hillary Clinton, his likely Democratic opponent, did not have the stamina to serve as president. In response to questions about his own health, he ordered Dr. Bornstein to issue “a full medical report.” Mr. Trump predicted that although he would be 70 when he took office, the oldest president ever to be inaugurated for the first time, the report would show that the state of his health was “perfection.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/nyregion/harold-bornstein-dead.html

[Wicked Blue]

1. COVID-19? nt

[hlthe2b]

2. Quite possibly. Ironic coming @ end of Trump's debacle as President... #ETTD, sometimes literally

I assume he did help some of his patients over the years.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. "Doctor Treat Thyself".

Diagnosed Trump as the healthiest man since Adam, but didn't see this coming.

[Cha]

33. I was just thinking.. "Physician

Heal Thyself" when I saw this news.

[JohnnyRingo]

38. I guess I hacked it.

Thanx for straightening that out.

[Cha]

39. No worries.. Same thing.. I looked it up

afterwards.. seems it's from the Bible which I did not know.

[beastie boy]

4. Who declared him dead?

If it was Dr. Harold Bornstein, I would question his diagnosis.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. It was this guy

[BradBo]

12. This guy...

... was a piece of garbage.
He knew Trump was a piece of shit. He just wanted his 15 minutes of fame.
I hope he died from COVID.

[BlueMTexpat]

5. I can't say anything

nice about this.

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. "Loquacious, hirsute and eccentric..."

And, a certifiable whack-job. Sad.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. I suppose some day I'll think doctors are important

but for now I just try to stay away as long as I can.

Medicine doesn't work well on me, and doctors don't believe me. I just don't understand it.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. May his soul find peace.

Most all MDs and DOs do their best. Not his fault he inherited Dump.

[not fooled]

22. And then to have red don's muscle

show up to seize all of red don's medical records.

[Kid Berwyn]

27. Absolutely. Like happened to his Deutsche Bank bankers.

In 2019 & 2014, Trump's Deutsche Bank Bankers "committed suicide."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214749387

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Dead men tell no tales.

Yeah, Trump unlawfully took his medical records but Bornstein had personal knowledge.

[marble falls]

11. The only guy associated with Trump who was harmless and interesting.

[Nitram]

14. It's not harmless to lie to the country about the president's health.

[marble falls]

16. It is when absolutely everyone in the country knew it wasn't true and made a major laugh ...

... out of the whole deal. His letter changed nothing but made Trump show once more the egomaniac he is.

[Nitram]

18. The fact that "everybody in the country" knew that the doctor committed a criminal act and

they found it funny means he's a harmless guy? Interesting point of view. So you would have been happy to put your life in the hands of this harmless doctor?

[marble falls]

28. Go dig him up and give him the lecture.

[Celerity]

43. lololol

[CloudWatcher]

31. criminal act?

I'm no lawyer, but the last time I looked, simply lying to the public isn't a criminal act. The letter was a bad joke and not a legal document.

[Nitram]

40. My only point is that I don't find the doctors actions funny. I find them disgusting.

As time goes by a great many things about the Trump administration I used to laugh about no longer seem amusing.

[CloudWatcher]

41. criminal

Yeah, understand. My point is that I would love to make it a crime to deliberately mislead the public. Especially by politicians.

[Nitram]

42. Frankly, I thought it was a crime for a doctor to submit a knowingly false statement about the

president's health to the public. I guess I'm naive.

[Nitram]

13. Well, Trump lived longer than he did...

[Gary 50]

15. He's probably the healthiest dead person ever in the morgue.

[Oscarthegreat]

17. What a quack

His hero was probably Dr Mengele.

[FSogol]

19. Oh noes, one less pill provider to NY's rich!

[Jetheels]

20. From reading the article it seems like he had no choice

in what the letter said about trumps health. And didn’t write it. Not sticking up for this guy but....maybe he had the unfortunate fate to have grown up in the same neighborhood. Idk.

[Aviation Pro]

21. Well, bye.

[twodogsbarking]

25. You can't have good good guys

without good bad guys.

[twodogsbarking]

23. I won't speak ill of the dead

regardless of how much they deserve it. Even from the grave that look is creepy.

[CTyankee]

24. He sure as hell looks the part, doesn't he?

Just plain ugly, like Trump and Trump's soul.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. He was known as "Dr Feelgood". . .

. . .to fellow denizens of the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

[Swamp Country Po Boy]

30. LIES! LIBBRUL LAMESTREAM MEDIA LIES!

Harold is just fine! Better than ever! I spoke to him on a conference call with him an hour ago! Just ask Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson! They were on the same damn call, you Jesus-hating leftie bastards!!!

[colorado_ufo]

32. "Everything Trump Touches Dies"

Rick Wilson certainly titled his book correctly.

The First Lady remains safe.

[Evolve Dammit]

34. This was the Doc who felt "raped" after Don the Con's mobsters siezed Don the Con's records. That

was a huge warning early on, about how Don the Con was going to operate from the Oval Office. Same as always, only now he had almost unlimited tools at this disposal. And here we are four years later with 20,000 needed to defend D.C. from the same tyrant who has successfully brain-washed over 70 million that he is the Chosen One. The Doc was steam-rolled, just like the rest of us. RIP.

[sandensea]

35. +1

The best epitaph I've read for the man - and an excellent nutshell recap of Cheeto as well.

[Sancho]

36. Interesting timing...

[LeftishBrit]

37. RIP

Couldn't help being mildly amused to discover that Trump's personal physician was a gastroenterologist. Quite appropriate as Trump is an arsehole, who produces a lot of bullshit! And his name in British English means Fart!