Jackson, a Navy doctor, had little managerial experience beyond the White House Medical Unit, where he had a propensity for heavy drinking and freely dispensing prescription drugs to White House aides. But he had forever endeared himself to Trump by holding a news conference after the president’s annual physical exam that January, at which he claimed the obese septuagenarian president was in “excellent” health, enthused about Trump’s “incredible genes,” failed to mention his cardiac disease, and said that “absolutely he is fit for duty.”[21]
