" Donald Trump is expected to remain physically fit for the duration of his presidency and has ""no cognitive issues whatsoever Marouane Fellaini Shirt ,"" according to full results from his first medical examination released Tuesday.
Trump's critics have openly questioned his mental health, and an explosive book on his presidency published earlier this month described aides as having doubts about his fitness for office.
""All data indicates the president is healthy and will remain so for the duration of his presidency,"" doctor Ronny Jackson told a White House briefing following last week's physical, which determined the 71-year-old to be in ""excellent"" health.
""He has incredible genes and that's the way God made him.""
Jackson said Trump Antonio Valencia Shirt , who has recently faced a swirl of speculation about his mental fitness, had himself requested a cognitive test in which he performed ""exceedingly well.""
""I think he saw doing the physical as an opportunity to put some of that to rest,"" Jackson said.
""And I think he wasn't the least bit concerned that he had anything to hide.""
The screening was carried out using a test called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, on which Trump scored 3030 Luke Shaw Shirt , Jackson said.
Jackson gave the president's vital statistics as follows: height six feet three inches (1.90 meters), weight 239 pounds (108 kilograms), resting heart rate 68, blood pressure 12274.
Trump will be making some changes to his diet and exercise in an effort to lose weight.
""I think a reasonable goal over the next year or so is to lose 10 to 15 pounds. We talked about diet and exercise a lot. He's more enthusiastic about the diet part than the exercise part Ander Herrera Shirt , but we're gonna do both,"" said Jackson.
""There's a gym upstairs and we'll get that set up to his specifications and we'll see how that goes.""
Heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac output were all normal in response to exercise, while motor function and sensory system were also normal Victor Lindelof Shirt , Jackson said of Friday's exam at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Long-running questions about Trump's fitness for office were given new fuel by Michael Wolff's White House expose in which staff expressed concern about Trump repeating himself.
Wolff expounded further in an interview with NBC's ""Today"" show, saying: ""One hundred percent of the people around him"" question Trump's fitness for office.
""They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. It's all about him,"" said Wolff.
Trump described the book as ""full of lies,"" and described himself as ""a very stable genius.""
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Leaders of the European Union institutions weighed into a new British debate on whether to hold a second referendum on Brexit by saying on Tuesday that Britons would be welcome to stay in the EU.
Prime Minister Theresa May and her main opponent Jeremy Corbyn have ruled out giving voters a chance to approve whatever withdrawal treaty is agreed with Brussels before Britain leaves the bloc in March 2019. However Ashley Young Shirt , campaigners on both sides of the debate have raised the issue again this month.
Updating the European Parliament on a summit he chaired last month at which EU leaders agreed to open talks with London on their post-Brexit future, European Council President Donald Tusk took the opportunity to support those calling for a rethink.
""Brexit will become a reality, with all its negative consequences, in March next year Andreas Pereira Shirt , unless there is a change of heart among our British friends,"" the former Polish premier said. ""We here on the continent haven't had a change of heart.
""Our hearts are still open to you.""
Picking up on Tusk's comment, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, whose executive arm is negotiating Britain's departure Jesse Lingard Shirt , added his endorsement: ""He said that our door is still open. I hope this is heard in London.""
Constitutional lawyers are divided on whether Britain can withdraw its two-year notice to quit but the exchanges underline a view in Brussels that an EU political consensus could be found to avert Brexit -- even if most are now resigned to Britain leaving and believe the Union will weather the disruption.
May's spokesman repeated her determination to follow through on Brexit, even though she campaigned against it in 2016.
In the debate, senior EU lawmakers called on her to offer more clarity on what she wants. Some mocked her, with the top German conservative skewering her announcement that she would restore Britain's old blue passports after Brexit as a ""scam"".
TOUGH TERMS
Member states are discussing among themselves a new set of negotiating instructions for Juncker's negotiator Michel Barnier ahead of the expected launch of talks on a post-Brexit transition period during which much of the status quo would be maintained.
Diplomats say those discussions reveal a firm line among the 27 on holding Britain to commitments to accepting continued obligations to the Union during the transition Chris Smalling Shirt , including accepting continued free immigration from the EU and being subject to EU courts -- key complaints of Brexit supporters.
Work is continuing on how Britain might continue to take part in free trade agreements between the EU and other countries during the transition and on how and whether the transition might be extended beyond Dec. 31, 2020.
Among the most eye-catching of demands which diplomats have clarified is that EU citizens arriving in Britain even after Brexit, during the transition, would be entitled to retain for life the rights currently enjoyed by EU expatriates.
Senior lawmakers in the Strasbourg chamber were generally scathing about May's plans for Brexit. The leader of the centre-right group Anthony Martial Shirt , an ally of German Chancellor Angela Merke