The way the whole thing was handled made it obvious it was just a dog and pony show merged with smoke and mirrors.

I doubt he will make any changes. He has always done and said what he wanted, with no consequences. Hopefully they have all been gathering to steam roll him, all at once.

And getting a doctor to lie to the public. That’s what.

another ballgame.

Even at his age, weight and habits a person can have normal-appearing vital signs - even if his arteries look like radiator hoses full of wallpaper paste. The exam the doctor did obviously was nothing more than the superficial going-over anybody would get during a routine doctor visit and it would not necessarily detect evidence of underlying heart disease or other afflictions that don't always manifest themselves in early stages. Trump is infamous for hating to be touched (unless he's porking a porn star) so it's likely the doc's rubber-gloved fingers didn't find their way to certain areas at all. Betcha Kroner to Krugerrands he didn't strip down past his underwear (or even that), and recited his own fake height and weight statistics - and the doctor, who is a naval officer under the command of the Commander in Chief, just wrote them down and didn't argue.

It's not uncommon for people (especially old, fat, sedentary ones) to leave their doctors' offices after having received a clean bill of health, and drop over dead from a coronary the next day.

And then fall down and have a frothy-mouthed seizure on the floor, and that doctor would still give him a clean bill. It's been part of the script since these doctors started giving these Presidential physicals.

Oh, never mind

but the fact that someone apolitical like the doctor would blatantly lie like that suggests that Trumpy can "get to" anybody (whether with intimidation or promises of money/favors) and nobody is beyond his reach of manipulation.
He runs D.C. Like a mob boss, hopefully he won't be Teflon Don for long.

And I'm not under the illussion (sic) you'll support your premise with valid, objective evidence.

not sure what evidence you need....I cannot produce evidence of my opinion. I really don't sweat over the Dr/s obvious lies.

As for assuming many in the military are politically engaged, therefore not a-political:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-soldiers-really-vote/
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-few-republicans-join-military-2-to-1-over-democrats/article/2578367
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-military-overwhelmingly-vote-Republican
http://news.gallup.com/poll/118684/military-veterans-ages-tend-republican.aspx
https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/3ev2w1/theories_on_us_military_branches_and_political/
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2016/05/09/military-times-survey-troops-prefer-trump-to-clinton-by-a-huge-margin/

That's too easy.

extra large diet Coke and four or five of those apple pies — every day, every meal.

Keep him even more satiated and bloated, "healthy" in his cholesterol-addled mind.

It's good for the country because the more he eats the sooner he...

One of these days, a tiny blob of cholesterol the size of a pinhead will save the world.

It's a great display of how fake news can work on people. No matter what your eyes have seen over the last year, all of the sudden that consistent reality was going to completely change.

while many doctors value their integrity and value their reputations...there are more that a handful of scoundrels that prefer to lie to make more money. Medicare fraud, opiate outlets, etc etc etc...we've all heard of them.

Every trade has it's bad players and those that can be coerced into trading in their values for job security.

Maybe I should but my default position is that Trump and his fixers are covering for him, so I don't expect anything coming out of their mouths to be true. I'd rather not waste my time trying to overanalyze things like this.

Justice Scalia suddenly dropped dead on a little junket, which isn't all that surprising for a 79-year-old obese smoker of sedentary habits. Yet it became fodder for all kinds of dark rumors about how Scalia had been rubbed out by shadowy forces. The ridiculousness came to nothing, mostly because Trump got to name Scalia's successor instead of Obama.

But if Trump suddenly keels over on the eighth fairway in the next couple of months, there will be an incredible outpouring of ersatz grief, followed swiftly by the wildest of conspiracy theory-mongering. If you think Hannity, Limbaugh, and Jones are unhinged now, you will have seen nothing like how they'll react in the event of Trump's sudden demise. Questions will be raised about Dr. Jackson's examination, whether he poisoned the Dear Leader, why he didn't foresee whatever health risk felled the Great Man, and why aren't Democrats beating their breasts and wearing sackcloth and ashes? What part did Hillary play in this?

There will be any number of nutjobs who are right on the ragged edge who will go over if Trump dies in office. How many they'll take with them is anyone's guess. Any lies or omissions by the doctor will certainly make a difference to the surviving friends and families of the perpetrators and the victims.

Which leads to more dramatic and politically traumatic methods required to get rid of him. That's a huge problem they just kicked out into the public eye. If the administration's "medical examiner" lied, how are they planning to handle things when Drumpf finally goes off the deep end, either physically or mentally?

Haele

Anyone who lives like Shitler is in terrible health and we are SICK OF THE DAMN LIES from Dump and all his republicans toadies!

Everything the reverse King Midas touches turns to shit! Now he corrupts the medical profession as well!

I think it crosses a line if a doctor, sworn to the Hippocratic Oath, "stretches the truth" about someone's health for any reason. He's not supposed to be just another toady in the White House of Lies. It seems plausible that this doctor may be stretching the truth about his patient who is widely known for chronic lying and paying people off or threatening them to get whatever he wants.

...but I don't now how lying about POTUS health runs counter to the Hypocratic oath. Perhaps that's because the only line I have heard much about is "do no harm" presumably to the patient. I really don't know what's in the rest of the oath. I was just listening to NPR where the US gymnastics team doctor molested at least 150 young girls/patients. I guess, I'm saying is that the oath doesn't insure squat.

Like any oath, there are no guarantees of compliance. I suppose this phrase from the modern oath would apply:

Every shit counts.

we'll know.

That's the thing about health. It doesn't lie.

I think Dr. Jackson might be an enabler (victim) of a malignant narcissist.

and another good reason he needs to go. He's damaged the office of the Presidency in many ways and very often.

To Trump, if he was is given the correct information and a suggested course of treatment, nothing.

To the country, not much, unless the doctor knows that Trump is a threat to the country for medical and not ideological reasons, and chose not to disclose it.

BY PROFESSIONALS as if they are all imbeciles and stupid to the core is reason enough to question and talk about this issue.

It should never be permitted to become the excused or the norm. It’s that stubborn RESIST REVOLT thing

But yeah, let him continue to eat cake...and burgers and fries and pop.

There are many over weight people his age with decent CBC scores and blood pressure. I'm a little younger and have similar scores and lower cholesterol. Is it good to be overweight? No.... Always working on losing pounds myself. But it's not like this is an impossibility or a lie by the doctor. Good for Trump that he appears healthy. Doesn't mean he won't die tomorrow. There are lots of young men in their 40's in good shape who die of heart attacks. Personally I'm more concerned about the misleading information about the mental status test. The test he was given is not a test given to assess personality disorders or over all "mental" wellness. It means he is oriented to time and place at that given moment. It means he is not confused. Psychotic people pass the test and it is not a diagnostic tool for personality disorders. The message lay people hear when he passed that test is that he is mentally well. That is not the case and that gives me far more alarm than the numbers on a scale.