Ben Terris

And in talking about that, and I talked to Mary Trump

Donald Trump's niece for this story, and did get into the fact that Fred Trump had Alzheimer's and that it was, you know, a problem for him late in life.

And so when President Trump was talking about his genetics being perfect, I was curious whether that would come up at all.

You know, I was prepared to bring it up on my own, but the president did himself.

He said, look, my dad had a perfect heart, a heart that couldn't stop beating.

He had no health problems.

He did have one problem, though.

You know, late in life, he had a, you know, what do you call it?

And he pointed to his head.

And Caroline Leavitt, who was there, said Alzheimer's.

And the president said, yeah, yeah, yeah, an Alzheimer's thing.

But, you know, I don't have it.

I don't have it.

I'm not saying that the president has Alzheimer's at all.

But it was a very striking moment for me because, of course, not remembering the word Alzheimer's does kind of stand out in an interview.

But also because in talking about his perfect genetics, he did kind of have to admit that there was one thing that could

be seen as not perfect in his family history and so i do wonder if it weighs on him if it's a thing that he thinks about he says he doesn't think about it because i think the quote was you know whatever happens you know whatever um but it's something that you know i'd have to imagine comes to his mind every once in a while like it would anybody with a family history of that

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