At the end of a long story about his interview with the Orange Slob headlined “‘The Superhuman President’ A good-faith attempt to ascertain the truth about Donald Trump’s health,” New York Magazine’s Ben Terris writes he was greeted in the Oval Office with the man himself, accompanied by White House physician Captain Sean Barbabella and physician’s assistant Colonel James Jones, PhD, who Terris writes were “clutching pieces of paper labeled TALKING POINTS,” that Trump forgot the word “Alzheimer’s” and had to be reminded of it by Karoline Leavitt, called the MRI “the worst fucking thing I ever did, and I blame them,” while pointing at Barbabella and Jones. “They wanted me to take it. And because I took it, people want to say, ‘Oh, there must be something wrong.’”
The most ridiculously on-brand part comes at the end when Karoline asks Jones “You worked for the Obamas, didn’t you?” to which Jones confirms and Terris writes “Jones had, in fact, worked from 2009 to 2018 as a senior medical leader in the White House. At the end of his presidency, Barack Obama, a fitness fanatic rumored to allow himself precisely seven almonds a night, was 55.”
Verbatim, from Terris’s close: “‘Who is healthier, Obama or President Trump?’ I asked. Trump stared across the desk, making eye contact with Jones. Jones didn’t hesitate. ‘President Trump,’ he said.”
“Trump nodded. There was no sign of a smile, as if there could not have been any other answer to that question. ‘Write that,’ he said, turning to me,” the reporter wrote, capping his recall.