The former president previously said he recovered from Covid-19 “because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young.”
A former aide has suggested Donald Trump may not be healthy enough to run for president again.
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who has just been freed from an NDA, said on Sunday that if the former US president wishes to run again in 2024, he “needs to come clean to the American people” about his health.
Speaking to MSBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton, Manigault Newman said she’s worried about the fact that Trump “hasn’t come forward and talked about his health.”
“I don’t know if he will even be healthy enough to run in 2024,” she said. “I think he needs to come clean to the American people about where he is on that before deciding to get into a very stressful and strenuous race for the White House.”
While she didn’t give any further details of Trump’s potential health concerns, the 75-year-old himself has repeatedly insisted he is in good health.
Just last month, he said the only thing that would stop him from running in 2024 would be a “bad call from a doctor.”
He was hospitalised last year with Covid-19, but said he recovered “because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young.”
Trump recently lost a three-year legal battle to enforce the NDA with Manigault Newman.
The former aide was one of many ex-staffers to air her grievances with him in a tell-all book.
Published while Trump was still president, Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House disparagingly describes the year Manigault Newman spent working for his administration between 2017 and 2018.
