--- title: Trump Doctor: Twitter Loves Donald Trump's Doctor description: Twitter started a hashtag to come up with other distinctly Trumpian things Donald Trump's doctor could have said. canonical: https://time.com/4148175/twitter-donald-trump-doctor/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-14T19:42:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:53.264Z article:section: Politics og:title: Twitter Loves Donald Trump's Doctor og:description: Twitter started a hashtag to come up with other distinctly Trumpian things Donald Trump's doctor could have said. og:url: https://time.com/4148175/twitter-donald-trump-doctor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Twitter Loves Donald Trump's Doctor twitter:description: Twitter started a hashtag to come up with other distinctly Trumpian things Donald Trump's doctor could have said. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Twitter Loves Donald Trump's Doctor > Sponsored content. 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Watch Time magazine's interview with Donald Trump for Person of the Year_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 14, 2015 7:42 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 14, 2015 7:42 PM UTC Donald Trump [put out a statement](http://time.com/4148111/donald-trump-health-report/) from his doctor on Monday giving him a clean bill of health. But Twitter had a field day with the doctor’s Trump-like use of hyperbole in the report, starting a hashtag to come up with other things the doc could have said. In the actual statement, Dr. Harold Bornstein says Trump’s blood pressure and lab results were “astonishingly excellent,” his “physical strength and stamina are extraordinary,” and that Trump would “be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” According to Twitter’s #TrumpDoctor, here are some other things Bornstein could have said: > [](https://twitter.com/owillis/status/676478869248090112) > [](https://twitter.com/abroshar/status/676482070139441152) > [](https://twitter.com/Foxxi%5FLove/status/676481097526456320) > [](https://twitter.com/rschles/status/676479396497252353) > [](https://twitter.com/Kragar%5FLGF/status/676478173928808448) > [](https://twitter.com/Wisco/status/676482739189641217) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4148175/twitter-donald-trump-doctor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4148175/twitter-donald-trump-doctor/"},"headline":"Twitter Loves Donald Trump's Doctor","datePublished":"2015-12-14T19:42:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:41:53.264Z","description":"Twitter started a hashtag to come up with other distinctly Trumpian things Donald Trump's doctor could have said.","url":"https://time.com/4148175/twitter-donald-trump-doctor/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election","viral","twitter"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4148175/twitter-donald-trump-doctor/","name":"Twitter Loves Donald Trump's Doctor"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Donald Trump: 'I Have to Win'","description":"Watch Time magazine's interview with Donald Trump for Person of the Year","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/RaDVQ2PJ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-12-09T12:02:29.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/RaDVQ2PJ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4148175/twitter-donald-trump-doctor/","duration":"PT2M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4148175/twitter-donald-trump-doctor/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```