{"id":823740,"date":"2026-05-26T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/823740\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:55:16","slug":"trump-declares-himself-in-good-health-after-physical-exam-at-walter-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/823740\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Declares Himself in Good Health After Physical Exam at Walter Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated<\/a> as president, had a physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday, and said that his doctors had given him a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything checked out PERFECTLY,\u201d Mr. Trump, who will turn 80 next month, wrote on social media Tuesday afternoon after the fourth publicly disclosed medical exam of his second term.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether the White House would release details from Mr. Trump\u2019s physician to support his claim, or clarify what tests the president had undergone as part of the clinical exam, which Mr. Trump said was a semiannual physical.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s health has been a subject of public scrutiny, particularly as he has been seen with bruises on his hands<\/a>, which he covers with makeup.<\/p>\n

White House officials said the bruises were caused by handshakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump has also been observed with swelling in his legs, which the president\u2019s doctors and aides said was a result of chronic venous insufficiency<\/a>, a condition that occurs when veins have trouble moving blood back to the heart.<\/p>\n

He also had a red rash on his neck<\/a>, and his physician, Dr. Sean P. Barbabella, has said Mr. Trump was using a cream as a preventive treatment. Dr. Barbabella has not said what the skin condition was or what medication Mr. Trump was taking.<\/p>\n

And the relentless demands of the presidency have at times caused Mr. Trump significant fatigue, such as occasions when he seemed to doze off<\/a> during official events in the White House.<\/p>\n

For more than a decade, Mr. Trump, his doctors and his aides have frequently issued terse, vague or rosy statements about the president\u2019s fitness and health conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and physical performance,\u201d Dr. Barbabella wrote in a memorandum dated Oct. 10 that announced the results of Mr. Trump\u2019s most recent physical, which he said included advanced imaging and laboratory testing.<\/p>\n

The lab results, Dr. Barbabella added, were \u201cexceptional,\u201d while the president\u2019s cardiac age was \u201capproximately 14 years younger than his chronological age.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it took until December for the White House to agree to release that memo to the public, amid mounting pressure. In October, Mr. Trump claimed to have undergone \u201cperfect\u201d magnetic resonance imaging<\/a> but offered no further details; he later said he had misspoken and that he in fact had a C.T. scan.<\/p>\n

While a public update on the president\u2019s health generally follows screenings, how much detail is released depends on the White House. During Mr. Trump\u2019s second term, the updates have gotten shorter and less specific.<\/p>\n

After the president\u2019s first physical of this term<\/a>, in April 2025, the White House released a detailed diagnostic summary,<\/a> including his height, weight and the results of his blood work, as well as a list of his current medications. In July 2025, after examining the president for signs of swelling in his legs, the doctor\u2019s memorandum<\/a> offered a diagnosis \u2014 chronic venous insufficiency \u2014 and a list of the tests he had undergone to get there, but no detailed results.<\/p>\n

The October 2025 memorandum<\/a> was vaguer still, and did not detail what kind of advanced imaging and laboratory testing the president had undergone.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s age and terse medical disclosures have fueled speculation that Mr. Trump\u2019s health may not be as robust as he and his physicians claim. Some doctors have said<\/a> that a person with no symptoms of a potential heart problem would not normally undergo advanced imaging as part of a routine checkup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, had a physical exam at Walter Reed National…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":823694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5959,338480,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,31961,277,67,586,16852,132,5230,68,2969,287336],"class_list":["post-823740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-donald-j","tag-national-military-medical-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-reed","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-united-states-politics-and-government","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-walter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116642167287578348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}