Kudlow, economic adviser to Trump, has heart attack

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, suffered a heart attack and was being treated Monday at a military hospital, the president announced minutes before his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack,” Trump tweeted. He offered no further details on the 70-year-old Kudlow’s medical condition or prognosis.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later told reporters that Kudlow was in “good condition” and “doing well” after suffering a “mild” heart attack. He was being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

Kudlow’s wife, Judith Kudlow, told The Washington Post in a brief conversation Monday evening that her husband was recovering.

“He’s doing fine. The doctors here are fabulous,” Judith Kudlow said, saying she would have preferred not to comment but wanted to clarify his health status to the public.

Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, had joined Trump last week in Canada for what became a contentious meeting of the Group of Seven world leaders. The meeting was shadowed by the Trump administration’s escalation of rhetoric on trade and tariffs and splintered shortly after the president left Quebec and tweeted that he was pulling back his approval of a joint statement by the group.

Kudlow appeared Sunday on CNN to back up Trump’s complaint that he had been blindsided by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s criticism of his tariff threats at a summit-ending news conference.