The doctor, who has treated President Donald Trump since 1980, said later that he took just five minutes to write the letter lauding the president’s health. | AP Photo Trump's doctor says president takes hair-growth medication

President Donald Trump takes four different medications daily, his longtime doctor told The New York Times in an interview published Thursday, including one that promotes hair growth in men.

Dr. Harold Bornstein told the Times that Trump takes a small dose of finasteride, which is marketed and commonly known as Propecia, a drug often prescribed to treat male-pattern baldness. He also takes and antibiotic to treat Rosacea and rosuvastatin, also known as Crestor, for elevated cholesterol and lipids. Bornstein also said the president takes a baby aspirin every day to reduce his risk of heart attack.


Asked by the Times about Trump’s self-described status as a germophobe, Bornstein said the issue had never come up during his decades-long relationship with the president and that the only evidence of it he had seen was that Trump “always stands there and changes the paper on the table himself” after an exam.

Bornstein entered the public eye just over a year ago, when Trump’s presidential campaign released a letter from him declaring that "If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual elected to the presidency.” Trump’s blood pressure and lab results were “astonishingly excellent," Bornstein said in the letter, adding that that his “physical strength and stamina are extraordinary."

The doctor, who has treated Trump since 1980, said later that he took just five minutes to write the letter lauding the president’s health. While he wrote, a limo sent by Trump waited outside the doctor’s office to collect it.

At 70 years old, Trump is the oldest man ever to be elected president. Bornstein told the health and sciences publication Stat News that the notion that Trump holds that record “never occurred to me.” The idea that something might happen to Trump did not seem to worry the doctor.

“If something happens to him, then it happens to him,” he said. “It’s like all the rest of us, no? That’s why we have a vice president and a speaker of the House and a whole line of people. They can just keep dying.”