I am willing to accept the words of a medical professional who has examined presidents dating back to 2013.

Donald John Trump Sr.’s mental acuity is intact. He’s not losing his mind. His butter hasn’t slipped off his noodle.

The president went through a routine physical examination. Then, at his request, he went through a cognitive examination by Navy Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, the doctor who’s been the White House’s lead MD for the past five years.

He ran Trump through his paces and determined that the president is (a) overweight and needs some regular exercise and (b) doesn’t suffer from any loss of cognition.

That’s how we’re supposed to determine these matters, not with long-distance analyses offered by individuals who have either zero qualifications to make them or haven’t examined the president up close.

“I find no reason whatsoever to think the president has any issues whatsoever with his thought process,” Jackson said.

I am not about to give Trump a pass on the weird statements he continues to make via Twitter or verbally. I will continue to call his statements into question and will continue to criticize him when I feel it is appropriate. I also will offer a good word when it is appropriate as well.

The examination comes at an appropriate time. The president has been, um, somewhat wild in his responses to issues of the day. He blurted out that infamous “sh**hole” comment regarding immigration, then felt he had to declare that “I am the least racist person you’ve ever interviewed.”

Dr. Jackson’s assessment, though, that Trump is in complete control of his faculties is good enough for me.

The doctor cannot explain why his patient keeps yapping uncontrollably and nonsensically. It must be the Trumpian way.

Believe this. The doctor’s diagnosis doesn’t make me feel one damn bit better about the president of the United States.