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Bruising was seen on President Trump’s right hand during a meeting in the Oval Office in August 2025.Al Drago\/Photographer: Al Drago\/Bloomberg<\/p>\nThe moment also shines a spotlight on Trump\u2019s age, as he turns 80 next month. It\u2019s coming at a challenging political time for a president set on projecting vigor and strength.<\/p>\n
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The US is bogged down in an intractable conflict with Iran, which has wreaked havoc on the global economy. Trump is also grappling with resistance from congressional Republicans who face the prospect of defeat in the November midterm election in large part due to voters who have soured on his leadership.<\/p>\n
A year into his second term, Trump has shown some visible signs of aging, including swelling in his legs, discoloration on his neck and bruising on his hands, which he attempts to cover with makeup. He\u2019s been diagnosed with a common vein disease. He also underwent advanced imaging last year on his heart and abdomen that the White House described as \u201cpreventative.\u201d He often closes his eyes for extended periods during Oval Office events.<\/p>\n
Bruising was seen on President Trump’s right hand during a meeting in the Oval Office in August 2025.Al Drago\/Photographer: Al Drago\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n
Thus far, Trump\u2019s age has not become a political liability as it did for his predecessor, Joe Biden, whose highly public decline led him to abandon a re-election bid at the age of 81. In contrast with the increasingly frail Biden, Trump is a larger, more booming presence. He has also acknowledged he is barred from seeking another term.<\/p>\n
Trump has long guarded and, at times, obfuscated details about his medical condition, making selective disclosures that have left unanswered questions. Throughout his political career, physicians and aides have offered limited or gauzy descriptions of his health, while withholding more comprehensive information that past presidents have made public. The scrutiny of Trump is heightened by his status as the oldest person ever inaugurated as US president.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat will be conveyed is what Trump and the White House want us to know,\u201d said Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at the New York University medical school who studies presidential health. He pointed out that past administrations concealed the health issues of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not expecting big revelations,\u201d Caplan said. Some worthy questions are whether Trump is getting adequate sleep and the quality of his hearing, Caplan added.<\/p>\n
The White House has indicated it will release a statement on the visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump is the sharpest and most accessible President in American history who is working nonstop to solve problems and deliver on his promises, and he remains in excellent health,\u201d said White House spokesman Davis Ingle.<\/p>\n
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President Trump watched play during the LIV Golf Virginia 2026 tournament at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, on May 9.AARON SCHWARTZ\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Trump, who delighted in taunting Biden about his age, argues he is in great shape. During a recent speech at a retirement community in Florida, he told the crowd, \u201cI don\u2019t happen to be a senior. I\u2019m much younger than you. I\u2019m a much younger man than you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following his physical last April, Sean Barbabella, the president\u2019s doctor, praised Trump\u2019s \u201cactive lifestyle,\u201d citing his \u201cfrequent victories in golf events.\u201d<\/p>\n
During Trump\u2019s first White House run in 2015, his physician Harold Bornstein in a letter said: \u201cIf elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.\u201d Years later, Bornstein told CNN that Trump had dictated the statement. Then in Trump\u2019s first term, then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson told reporters that Trump had \u201cgreat genes.\u201d<\/p>\n
And amid conflicting accounts given by the White House of last year\u2019s imaging tests, Trump told reporters he did not know what part of his body was analyzed, though he insisted the results were \u201cperfect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump at times has acknowledged his lack of physical activity. During an Oval Office event announcing his revival of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, Trump quipped he spends \u201cabout one minute a day max\u201d on exercise.<\/p>\n
Trump has approached his role differently than during his initial term, embracing a more limited travel schedule. But he also holds public events most days and speaks to reporters regularly, including frequently taking calls from journalists on his cell phone.<\/p>\n
Still, Trump\u2019s behavior has raised questions about whether he is more untethered than in his first term, though he has long intentionally cultivated a chaotic image and is now less controlled by advisers. He has lashed out at reporters and used profanity with more regularity, speaks repetitively and at length on pet topics, such as his White House renovations, and frequently unleashed torrents of late-night social media posts, loaded with conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n
Trump seems aware of the questions about his well-being, repeatedly asserting that he has sailed through a number of cognitive tests.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve taken it and I aced it all three times,\u201d Trump said at a rally Friday in New York. \u201cNice to be smart.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the same time, he\u2019s acknowledged that his father, Fred, struggled with an \u201cAlzheimer\u2019s thing\u201d starting in his mid-80s.<\/p>\n
Asked in a New York magazine interview earlier this year if he worries that could happen to him, Trump brushed any concern aside.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think about it at all. You know why?\u201d he said. \u201cBecause whatever it is, my attitude is whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
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