Did Trump fake his bill of health ahead of 2016 election?

For long, US President Donald Trump has criticised the media for publishing "fake news". Now it has emerged that he may have faked his own bill of health.

Trump's former doctor Harold Bornstein has said he did not write a 2015 letter declaring the then-Republican presidential candidate's "astonishingly excellent" health, according to a US media report.

"He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter," Bornstein told CNN about 71-year-old Trump, who became the oldest president to be elected in US history.

"I just made it up as I went along," Bornstein, a gastroenterologist, best known as Trump's personal physician, told the network yesterday.

"His (Trump's) physical strength and stamina are extraordinary," he had crowed in the letter, which was released by Trump's campaign in December 2015.

"If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency," Bornstein had said.

The missive did not offer much medical evidence for those claims beyond citing a blood pressure of 110/65, described by Bornstein as "astonishingly excellent." It claimed that Trump had lost 15 pounds over the preceding year. And it described his cardiovascular health as "excellent."
"That's black humour, that letter. That's my sense of humor," he said. "It's like the movie 'Fargo': It takes the truth and moves it in a different direction."
"(Trump) dictated the letter and I would tell him what he couldn't put in there," he said. "They came to pick up their letter at 4 o'clock or something."