Trump's Dr. Oz Appearance Was Startlingly Straightforward

At this point, it should come as no particular surprise that Donald Trump used daytime TV as the venue for disclosing more detailed medical records than he'd previously shown the public.

His Dr. Oz appearance is in keeping with both a campaign that's capitalized off lessons the candidate learned in his time on reality TV and a political scene in which all manner of pop-culture TV has come to be more important than ever to transmit messages to discrete groups of voters.