That was then, this is now

how dare you ask!

And then, of course, there was Trump's 2017 physical, which was conducted by Dr. Ronny Jackson -- remember him and his doomed bid to become VA secretary? -- who became the subject of ridicule after gushing a bit too much about Trump's health.

Maybe the second "phase" of Trump's latest physical can be less interesting?

Postscript: The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty, hardly a crackpot conspiracy theorist, wrote in her new column, "The only thing of which we can be fairly certain about President Trump's mysterious Saturday-afternoon trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is this: The White House is not telling the truth when it claims the president was there 'to begin portions of his routine annual physical exam.' We know this because -- well, because those people lie about pretty much everything.

"And the compulsion of Trump and his team to contradict the obvious reality that we see with our own eyes is particularly egregious where the president's health is concerned."

Google shows (at least) two full pages of search results for “Trump’s physical condition questioned” before finally producing a neutral report. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!