"I try to get four or five lines down as fast as possible so that they would be happy," physician Harold Bornstein of New York's Lenox Hill Hospital said. "In the rush I think some of those words didn't come out exactly the way they were meant."
Bornstein did say he stands by the original bill of health he gave Trump, who at age 70 -- 16 months older than Clinton -- would be the oldest person to assume the presidency if elected.
In the one-page statement, the doctor highlighted Trump's 15-pound weight loss last year and lab results Bornstein called "astonishingly excellent."
"If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency," Bornstein wrote in the original statement.
The doctor said Friday he does not always write medical notes with such enthusiasm: "I think I picked up his kind of language and then I just interpreted it to my own."
"#WheresHillary? Sleeping!!!!!" Trump tweeted recently.
On another occasion, the Republican candidate told voters in Iowa that Clinton was "not strong enough to be president."
Team Clinton vehemently denies any health concerns, and released a letter from her doctor in July 2015 giving her an "excellent" bill of health.
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