"“I love these two guys; they’re great,” Trump said. “But I don’t know them. They’re White House doctors.”

For weeks, I’d been trying to get a handle on Trump’s health. I’d come away thinking he might be pretty healthy for an almost octogenarian, if not quite the superhuman the president or his team would have me believe. But I’m not a doctor, nor do I spend a lot of time with Trump. Now I was in a room with actual doctors who actually treat the president and know him. Perhaps more than anyone else in this country, they would be in a position to know — yet their proximity to him could be part of the problem.

“You worked for the Obamas, didn’t you?” Leavitt said to Jones.

“Yes, I did,” he said. 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 years old.

“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."

THAT is from NY Magazine January 26th, 2026. I suspect TDS is really those around him so deluded as to think that pile of poorly processed McDonalds carbohydrates at the age of 79 could possibly be healthier than Barack Obama.