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2025-06-26 14:14:15 [Science] Source: Time Information Network

Donald Trump's rallies attract all sorts of people -- including,Gary Eberhart Archives apparently, doctors in full uniform.

At a rally in Sanford, Florida, on Tuesday, a man wearing a lab coat and a stethoscope stood behind Donald Trump at the podium. What this "doctor" was doing there, and why he was in full costume, nobody knows.

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As commentators on Twitter pointed out, this doctor was actually sporting a goldstethoscope.

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Who is this man? Is he a Trump-supporting emergency care surgeon who left mid-surgery to pump his fist at a rally? Or a mysterious man who just got a little too excited about his doctor costume and wanted to show it off in front of the Donald? Was he put there by the Trump campaign to strengthen his relationship with the gold encrusted doctor community?

Twitter had questions.

What are the odds the guy standing right behind Trump with a stethoscope perched on his shoulder is really a doctor? pic.twitter.com/dRlDzWFrFD
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) October 25, 2016

Trump: well he doesn't LOOK like a doctor
Aide: [sighing] I have a doctor Halloween costume in my trunk pic.twitter.com/v05pkre805
— hrtbps (@hrtbps) October 26, 2016

Imagine turning on a Trump rally and seeing your doctor wave at you pic.twitter.com/GmaV4hkqZ6
— Brendan O'Hare (@brendohare) October 25, 2016

What’s the deal with this “doctor” standing behind Trump with a golden stethoscope? pic.twitter.com/5r6bArMmir
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) October 25, 2016

What does this doctor want from Trump -- or more importantly, what does he want from us?