Bush White House cardiologist flags new Trump health claim oddity: 'This makes no sense'

A former White House cardiologist believes a recent health claim made by Donald Trump has little grounding in fact.

Jonathan Reiner, the former doctor to Vice President Dick Cheney, responded to a claim made by the 47th POTUS that he takes aspirin against his doctor's orders. In an interview with NBC, Trump confirmed he is still taking aspirin and "I don't want to change". He added, "I want that blood to be nice and thin running through my heart."

Reiner, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at The George Washington University Hospital, has since shared that Trump's logic here makes little sense.

In a post to X, he wrote, "This still makes no sense." Earlier this year, Reiner suggested he is concerned about the president's health, and not just because of the aspirin intake. Speaking to The Lead host Phil Mattingly, Reiner says the public has received almost no "meaningful" information on Trump's health.

In summer 2025, Trump had swollen ankles and another series of tests were conducted to check in on the president's health. Cognitive tests were also carried out on the president across 2025.

Reiner said at the time, "Now we learn the president didn't have an MRI. He actually had a CT scan, which explains why the president's physician didn't describe the test after the president disclosed his MRI, because he didn't have an MRI."

Reiner would also comment on Trump's use of aspirin as making "no sense". He said, "It's not like changing something from gumbo to chicken soup."

The former White House cardiologist has since called for an inquiry into Trump's mental fitness, with Reiner suggesting the president's reaction to not winning the Nobel Peace Prize is ground for an investigation.

He wrote at the time, "This letter, and the fact that the president directed that it be distributed to other European countries, should trigger a bipartisan congressional inquiry into presidential fitness."

The letter had been written by Trump and sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, where the president told Norway he no longer felt "an obligation to think purely of peace" when it came to the country.