The Washington Post, one of our nation’s truly great newspapers, a national newspaper of record as far as the Federal Government is concerned, and the exposers of the Watergate coverup, has once again struck bigly with a major, major, yuge scoop:
The hair-loss drug Trump took for years is now absent from his medical records
White House officials say they are not obligated to disclose all of Trump’s medications, including whether he still uses finasteride.
by Dan Diamond | Thursday, June 4, 2026 | 5:00 AM EDT
President Donald Trump’s medical reports no longer include a common hair-loss prevention drug that his physicians said he routinely used during his first term in office.
Finasteride — also known by the brand name Propecia — is used by millions of American men to prevent male-pattern hair loss. Three of Trump’s past physicians have said that he used the drug before and during his first term as president.
But the drug has not appeared on Trump’s medical reports since he returned to office last year, including a report released Friday night that mentioned three other medications.
White House officials declined to comment on Trump’s past use of finasteride and whether he had stopped taking it.
I had to do it! I cut-and-pasted the entire article into this story, most of which I’ll edit out to avoid plagiarism, just to get the total word count. Reporter Dan Diamond gave us 1,327 words, exclusive of the headline, subtitle, and byline, to tell us that President Trump has either ceased using an anti-hair loss drug, or has failed to disclose it if he is still taking it. The very lovely Amanda Marcotte will almost certainly tie this in with a story break of her own, telling us that it’s a conspiracy and that President Trump should be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment due to this.
“The current report reflects all medications deemed clinically relevant to disclose at this time,” the White House said in a statement, adding that Trump’s latest medical report included information relevant to his ability to serve as president. “No additional undisclosed conditions or procedures materially affecting his health status were omitted from this report.”
Trump’s allies have mocked the persistent focus on the president’s health, saying that many questions about his medication, appearance and aging are irrelevant to his performance. But Robert Klitzman, a psychiatrist who leads Columbia University’s master’s program in bioethics, said the White House’s lack of transparency about Trump’s use of a hair-loss drug may reflect its willingness to be honest about the nearly 80-year-old president’s health.
“It raises significant questions of what else is possibly not being revealed,” Klitzman said.
He also noted that use of finasteride has been linked with an increased risk of depression, which could affect a president’s performance, adding that it was “crucial” for Trump to be open about his health and medications.
Arthur Caplan, who founded the bioethics program at New York University’s medical school and is a longtime researcher of presidential health, said he does not trust the medical reports released by the White House, citing Trump’s past efforts to conceal health information.
“We are obviously overdue for the appointment of an independent medical expert assessment,” Caplan said.
Fortunately, we do have the Post, which tells us that Democracy Dies in Darkness, on the case, complete with a trained psychiatrist telling us that the medication the President may or may not be taking, “has been linked with an increased risk of depression.” We have Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist, telling us that he does not trust the medical reports, and that we need a special prosecutor “an independent medical expert assessment.”
An obvious question: did Drs Klitzman and Caplan, did Mr Diamond, did anybody on the staff of The Washington Post raise such questions, such objections, when President Biden was visibly zoning out, was recorded losing his way, was showing obvious signs of mental decline during his four years in office? The newspaper told us that Democrats were in “panic” over Mr Biden’s June 27, 2024 debate performance, and the Post’s Editorial Board, while not calling on Mr Biden to withdraw, pointed out that even if he did, there was no guarantee that a Democrat would win in the November election. Alex Thompson, who co-authored with Jake Tapper a book that tried to cover up the media’s failings when it came to reports that President Biden was losing his marbles, told us just two days after the debate debacle that:
- From 10am to 4pm, Biden is dependably engaged — and many of his public events in front of cameras are held within those hours.
- Outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued, aides told Axios.
Axios is hardly some evil, reich-wing site, but generally leans toward the left. And Mr Biden was, at the time, playing nuclear patty-cake with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine!
They all knew! Everyone in the credentialed media in Washington knew that President Biden was drooling in his Cream of Wheat, but did the Post or The New York Times or CNN or anyone else among what Robert Stacy McCain calls “Democrats with bylines” ever tell the American people that, ever publish a call for “an independent medical expert assessment” of the President’s condition? It was only us evil, reich-wing conservatives saying anything along those lines, and the league of Scott Pelleys of the credentialed media were busily pooh-poohing any concerns.
So, if you’ll pardon me for saying so, I find it laughable that Washington’s most august newspaper is giving readers 1,327 words based on President Trump not having listed a anti-hair loss drug he may or may not still be taking.