That thing what a word you're looking for feels like it's on the tip of your tongue.

It happened recently to the President of the United States.

Speaking to a reporter about when his father's health faltered, Donald Trump

couldn't remember the diagnosis, so he pointed to his forehead and asked his press secretary,

what do they call it? The word he wanted, supplied by Caroline Levitt, was Alzheimer's.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. Look, blanking on a word or a name happens to pretty

much everybody, especially as we get older. And if it's a thing that happens just occasionally,

it is not a cause for concern. But the particular word the president struggled with was ironic,

not least because he was using that interview to talk about how remarkably vigorous he is at age 79

and how mentally sharp. My guest is the reporter who went to the Oval Office to speak with President

Trump about his health. Ben Terrace is Washington correspondent for New York Magazine where you can

find his article, The Superhuman President. Ben, welcome to think. Thanks for having me. The White House has

maintained that President Trump is about as healthy as any human can be at any age. But the

press office did agree to let you spend time in person with President Trump and a couple of his

physicians. What should we make of their willingness to even

entertain this conversation?

Yeah. Well, first of all, let me say that the White House didn't say that he was as healthy

as, you know, the healthiest human. Stephen Miller, one of the president's top aides,

told me he was basically healthier than any mortal alive. He said he had more, he had superhuman

abilities that no mere mortal had better attention to, yeah, to details, recall, memory recall,

stamina. So it's not just that he's healthy, it's that he's got a superhuman ability to stay

healthy, according to, you know, Trump's inner circle. And so the reason I think they wanted to

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