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Trump says he's taking more aspirin than his doctors recommend · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Brand new insights today and to the health of President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal reached out to the
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  Speaker 1: White House with reporting that said those close to the
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  Speaker 1: President say he is showing signs of aging. This led
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  Speaker 1: the President to give the journal an impromptu interview, an
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  Speaker 1: interview that was published today. Now. The President told the
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal his excessive hand bruising is caused by
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  Speaker 1: the amount of aspirin he takes, saying it's more than
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  Speaker 1: his doctors recommend. He says he regrets getting advanced imaging
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  Speaker 1: because it generated so much scrutiny over his health. He
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  Speaker 1: also denies falling asleep during events like this one you
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  Speaker 1: see here, saying he's simply quote blinking.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, he admits he's quote never been
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  Speaker 1: a big sleeper at night. Now, we also learned the
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  Speaker 1: President will not be exercising as part of his New
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  Speaker 1: Year's resolution. He called it boring. Sin ins Atlanta train
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  Speaker 1: starts us off today, and Elena, let's step back for
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  Speaker 1: a moment. What are some of the specific concerns the
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  Speaker 1: journal outlines that people close to the president have had
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  Speaker 1: related to age.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's a couple of things. One, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the falling asleep, the dozing off. I love that line.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I say that I'm like, can stay up
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  Speaker 3: too with my friends, Like I'm just resting my eyes.
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  Speaker 3: But that's part of it. But a lot of it
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  Speaker 3: is the heavy bruising. I mean, there was a great
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  Speaker 3: anecdote in this journal piece about how Pambondi, the Attorney General,
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  Speaker 3: she was wearing a ring and like accidentally, you know,
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  Speaker 3: grazed the President's hand and he started bleeding from it.
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  Speaker 3: They've talked about him having thin skin, that's one example,
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  Speaker 3: but you see the heavy bruising. I mean, we have
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  Speaker 3: great photographers at the White House all the time capturing
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  Speaker 3: heavy makeup, bandages on his hand, him trying to shield
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  Speaker 3: his hand from the cameras. That's a sign of concern.
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  Speaker 3: Some officials have said. There's also been swelling in his legs.
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  Speaker 3: We know part of that is due to what the
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  Speaker 3: White House and the President's doctors have said is his
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  Speaker 3: chronic venus insufficiency. Essentially, it's common in older people, but
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  Speaker 3: it's when a one way valve that doesn't circulate as
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  Speaker 3: much blood going up the legs to the heart. And
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  Speaker 3: then another issue that he has as well is the
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  Speaker 3: fact that he doesn't exercise as much. That's why he's
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  Speaker 3: almost always golfing on the weekends. But when you're older,
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  Speaker 3: you know, wanting to be more active and not sleeping
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  Speaker 3: as well is a cause for some concern. But look
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  Speaker 3: what I found so interesting about this too. I love
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  Speaker 3: that you mentioned it that they had all this reporting
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  Speaker 3: the journal for the president. He actually does this a lot.
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  Speaker 3: If there's a story that he very much wants to
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  Speaker 3: weigh in on, even if you were had no intention
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  Speaker 3: of interviewing him, he will call the reporters. And this
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  Speaker 3: is an issue that is so important, and because I
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  Speaker 3: remind you, think of all the time he still does
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  Speaker 3: this on whenever he has events campaign style events. But
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  Speaker 3: throughout the twenty twenty four election, all he did was
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  Speaker 3: go after Joe Biden for who he argued was hiding
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  Speaker 3: a lot of his medical issues. He called him mentally
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  Speaker 3: unfit and other things for office. And he's very the present,
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  Speaker 3: very defensive when it comes to questions about his health.
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  Speaker 3: But that's also led a lot of people, particularly people
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  Speaker 3: in the press, but I think the American public too,
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  Speaker 3: wondering if he's being fully transparent and sufficiently transparent really
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  Speaker 3: with the medical information that he provides. So I thought
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  Speaker 3: this was a great look at it, and this is
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  Speaker 3: one thing really quickly. I don't know if we have
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  Speaker 3: the quote, but I just need to read it because
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  Speaker 3: I think, Bood, yes, it's the aspirin on blood. I
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  Speaker 3: think this was an amazing quote that Trump gave them
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  Speaker 3: because he says he takes his doctor said he takes
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  Speaker 3: three hundred and twenty five milligrams of aspirin a day.
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  Speaker 3: Trump says it's because he wants to thin the blood.
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  Speaker 3: He said this to the journal, He said, quote, they
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  Speaker 3: say aspirin is good for thinning the blood, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. He went
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  Speaker 3: on to say, I want nice, thin blood pouring through
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  Speaker 3: my heart. Again. He also that he's not taking uh
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  Speaker 3: or he's taking a higher dose of aspirin than his
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  Speaker 3: doctors want. He's also was told to where compression socks
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  Speaker 3: because of the swelling in his legs. He said he'd
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  Speaker 3: tried that, doesn't like it, so he's not doing that either.
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  Speaker 1: Can we pull up the full screen real quick up
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  Speaker 1: the quote because it's at the very end that I
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  Speaker 1: think is the best part, where he's explaining his theory
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  Speaker 1: of the case and then ask the reporter does that
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  Speaker 1: make sense? Yeah, and you're like, well, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: guess sort of the way you're explaining it. Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: not according to the medical Okay, we're just gonna let
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  Speaker 1: this one out. This is his theory of the case.
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  Speaker 1: He believes it and that's why.
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  Speaker 3: He does what he also said, which is very true
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  Speaker 3: about Trump. He said, I'm very superstitious, which we know
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  Speaker 3: Trump is a very taking aspirin. He always believed it
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  Speaker 3: would help him prevent a heart attack, and so he's
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  Speaker 3: sticking with it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great piece of the thorough piece. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, the President engaging on the piece actually made
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  Speaker 1: the piece a lot better, a lot something that the
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  Speaker 1: Biden team could probably done in the four years prior.
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  Speaker 1: Let's discuss now with doctor Jonathan Reyner, Professor of medicine
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  Speaker 1: and Surgery at George Washington University. He's also c it
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  Speaker 1: in medical Analystis doctor really appreciate your time? Just last
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  Speaker 1: month you said you were seriously concerned about the president's health.
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  Speaker 1: What's your level of concern after hearing from the president
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  Speaker 1: who says he's in perfect health.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm mostly concerned that the public really hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: told essentially anything meaningful about the president's health here. So
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  Speaker 2: let's let's turn the clock back and look what's gone
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  Speaker 2: on over the last nine months. The president had a
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  Speaker 2: physical exam, comprehensive physical exam in April Walter reed, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, they listed, you know, a bunch of studies
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  Speaker 2: which were essentially all normal. The president was great, and
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  Speaker 2: they and there was nothing else to see. Over the summer,
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  Speaker 2: the president developed really greatly swollen ankles, which prompted another
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  Speaker 2: series of tests. They called that chronic venus insufficiency, despite
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  Speaker 2: the fact that just a few months earlier, during his
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  Speaker 2: comprehensive exam, the president's physician said he had no swelling
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  Speaker 2: of leg.
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  Speaker 4: So it doesn't sound so chronic to me.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds more acute.
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  Speaker 4: And then something happened in the fall, something happened in
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  Speaker 4: October that prompted an off cycle series of tests by
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  Speaker 4: the president's medical team, And when the results.
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  Speaker 2: Of those were released to the public, they used some
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  Speaker 2: basically euphemisms to describe what the president the test the
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  Speaker 2: president went through, and the euphemism was advanced imagy, and
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  Speaker 2: they didn't describe whether it was.
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  Speaker 4: A CT or an Mr.
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  Speaker 2: And then later on a few days later on Air
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  Speaker 2: Force One, the President basically said he had an MRI.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't describe what body part, but he said he had
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  Speaker 2: an MRI, which prompted the president's physician again to release
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  Speaker 2: another statement, at which time he again did.
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  Speaker 4: Not describe the specific test.
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  Speaker 2: The president underwent and said that again everything looked fine.
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  Speaker 2: And now we learned that the president didn't have an MRI.
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  Speaker 2: He actually had a ct scan, which explains why the
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  Speaker 2: president's physician didn't describe the test after the president disclosed his.
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  Speaker 4: MRI because he didn't have an MRI.
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  Speaker 2: So, as best we can tell, the President had a
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  Speaker 2: cardiac ct or what looks like a ct androgram, which
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  Speaker 2: is basically a non invasive way to tell whether the
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  Speaker 2: president has any significant caronary artery disease. And in his
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  Speaker 2: statement to the Wall Street Journal, the president's physician, doctor
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  Speaker 2: Sean Barbara Bella, basically said the test looked great, there
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  Speaker 2: was no abnormality, which actually doesn't correlate with what doctor
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  Speaker 2: Ronnie Jackson told the public in twenty eighteen when he
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  Speaker 2: disclosed that the President had a similar CTC scan that
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  Speaker 2: showed the presence of caroinary calcium, which is a marker
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  Speaker 2: of caronary artery disease. So the I'm almost less concerned
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  Speaker 2: about the actual cause of you know, the President's bruising.
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  Speaker 2: We can talk about that than I am about why
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  Speaker 2: the White House medical team has felt the need to
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  Speaker 2: study him in the last few months, what symptoms, what
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  Speaker 2: clinical concerns have prompted this, because the President is right,
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  Speaker 2: when you test the president of the United States, it
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  Speaker 2: creates a lot of concern, and rightfully so.
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  Speaker 1: The what the President said about the about aspirin, which
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  Speaker 1: has gotten a lot of attention, taking more aspirin than
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  Speaker 1: what his doctors are recommending, and his rationale for doing so,
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  Speaker 1: which is he said quote they say, aspirin is good
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  Speaker 1: for thinning out the blood, and I don't want thick
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  Speaker 1: blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood
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  Speaker 1: pouring through my heart. Does that make sense? Does that
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  Speaker 1: make sense?
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  Speaker 4: So that makes sense? That actually makes nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: So, first of all, when we use any kind of
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  Speaker 2: anticoagulant medications to prevent plotting, those don't thin the blood.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like changing something from gumbo to chicken soup.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make it doesn't make it thinner. It makes
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  Speaker 2: you less likely to clop. And it used to be
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  Speaker 2: that we would treat a lot of people with aspirint
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  Speaker 2: therapy to prevent heart attacks, but we've learned in recent
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  Speaker 2: years that particular people over the age of seventy, not
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  Speaker 2: only is there no benefit in terms of just primary
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  Speaker 2: prevention trying to prevent a cardiac event by giving them aspirin,
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  Speaker 2: that there can be hazard, and the hazard can be bleeding,
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  Speaker 2: significant bleeding. Here's the interesting thing about this. The President
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  Speaker 2: apparently is taking three hundred and twenty five milligrams of
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  Speaker 2: aspirint per day, which is essentially one adult sized aspirin tablet.
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  Speaker 2: But the the dosage that we use for patients even
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  Speaker 2: with documented carnary artery disease is a quarter that is
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  Speaker 2: eighty one milligrams per day. So why is the president
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  Speaker 2: taking you know, an unorthodox dose of aspirin And the
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  Speaker 2: media has published, you know, many photos of his right
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  Speaker 2: hand and now maybe his left hand with this chronic bruise,
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  Speaker 2: and the White House has said that this is related to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, chronic aspirin therapy. So if you're bruising a
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  Speaker 2: lot and your doctor says you're on too much aspirin,
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  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you go down to the lower dose.
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  Speaker 4: It makes no sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: Tyter Jonathan Reiner. That was actually a very helpful and
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  Speaker 1: nuanced explanation of a lot of things people have been
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  Speaker 1: talking about. Thank you very much, really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: My pleasure