Top Doctor Sounds the Alarm About Trump’s ‘Most Extraordinary’ Health Issue

Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images A top doctor has picked the “most extraordinary” of President Donald Trump’s litany of ailments and health habits.

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Jonathan Reiner, who served as former Vice President Dick Cheney’s cardiologist and is a professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University, joined CNN’s Jake Tapper on The Lead to discuss these points.

He noted the long list of things Trump suffers from, most notably his ever-bruised hands and bulbous ankles.

But Reiner said one habit trumps them all.

“Well, that really is the most extraordinary thing,” Reiner said, responding to a question from Tapper about the 80-year-old’s propensity to doze off in public.

“Now, the president is a well-known night owl.

And that’s not new.

But what’s new is that over the last several months, he has a very hard time staying awake when he’s surrounded by people, often when he’s surrounded by people talking to him.

And it happens very quickly.

And it’s so unusual,” he said.

His comments came after Trump appeared to fall asleep during an Oval Office announcement on vaccines on Monday.

“We’ve never seen a president of the United States fall asleep in the Oval Office as people are talking to him, or in the Cabinet room, or in other meetings.

“But it’s been normalized.