President Donald Trump seemed to address questions over his health on Sunday as he gave a shoutout to Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who was his physician during his first term in office.
“He was my doctor in the White House and I got to know him very well. He was also the doctor for Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? That he was a doctor for a man named Bush,” he said at a rally-style speech to thousands of sailors at a U.S. Navy celebration.
Jackson was part of the White House medical team under then-President George W. Bush, and eventually became physician to the president under both Obama and Trump.
Trump said Jackson ranked him above the others.
“At a press conference, they asked him: ‘Who’s in the best shape? Who’s the healthiest? Who’s the strongest? Who’s the best physical specimen of the three?’” Trump said. “He said, ‘That’s easy. President Donald Trump.’”
Trump naturally took to him immediately.
“I said, ‘I love this guy,’” he recalled. “I said, ‘I love him.’”