Trump’s Declining Health ‘Red Flags’ Spark Alarm as He Turns 80

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Medical professionals are warning of the “red flags” that show President Donald Trump is not the man who should have the nuclear codes.

Over the past year, photographs of Trump’s bruised hands, swollen ankles, and a rash on his neck have fueled public speculation about his health.

But several prominent physicians say the more troubling indicators are behavioral, not dermatological.

“It’s not that he’s 80, but let’s not ignore the red flags on the field,” Dr. Henry Abraham, a Nobel Prize-winning professor of psychiatry emeritus at Tufts University School of Medicine, told https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-birthday-age-fitness-b2994244.html" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-birthday-age-fitness-b2994244.html">The Independent. “There are people in their 80s and 90s who have all their marbles.”

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