Donald Trump had his first annual medical control on Friday since she returned to power, making the fitness of 78-year-old the oldest US President ever chosen and is accused of avoiding questions about his health.
Republican Trump has repeatedly talked about his own strength since he started a second term in the White House, while he mocked his 82-year-old Democratic predecessor Joe Biden as expired and mentally unsuitable for the office.
But now it is Trump, who will also be 82 at the end of his presidency, under the stethoscope.
The billionaire arrived in the Walter Reed Military Hospital in the suburbs of Washington – after a delay due to conversations about rates – and it was expected that it spent about five hours there.
“I have never felt better, but these things have to be done!” Trump said about Truth Social earlier this week.
Trump is repeatedly accused of a lack of openness about his health, despite an enormous interest in the well -being of the American supreme commander.
The White House said that presidential doctor Sean Barbabella would give an reading of the physical “as fast as we can” and that “of course” it would offer the full report.
“I can confirm that the president is in very good condition, as you see on an almost daily basis,” Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
She said that Trump would not have a general anesthesia – which is normally used for procedures such as colonoscopies – but added that there is “much that goes in to ensure that the president achieves all his goals.”
Trump is a productive golfer who abstains from alcohol and cigarettes.
But he is also known that he will pass Fastfood and enjoys his steaks well done, although he seems noticeably thinner than during his first term.
– 'healthiest individual' –
Trump's personal and white house doctors sometimes made bizarre claims about his health.
In 2015, during Trump's first presidential run, his doctor Harold Bornstein issued a letter stating that the Tycoon “unambiguously the healthiest person ever will have been chosen for presidency.”
Bornstein later told CNN that Trump himself “dictated that whole letter. I did not write that letter.”
His doctor from the White House said in his first term, Ronny Jackson, in 2018 that Trump could be '200 years old with a healthier diet'.
The Jackson report then suggested that Trump would try to lose 10 to 15 pounds, but said that he was generally in “excellent health”, adding that there were no signs of “cognitive problems”.
A year later, an exam found that the 6-foot-3 (1.9 meters) weighed Trump 243 pounds (110 kilograms), an increase of seven pounds recently before the force, making it technically obese. It said that he used medication to treat high cholesterol.
In 2020, Trump told Fox News that he demanded a test on cognitive disorder by repeating the expression “person, woman, man, camera, TV”.
Age became a major problem in the 2024 elections when Trump and Biden were confronted as the oldest two major party candidates in history.
The Trump campaign spread a letter from a doctor who investigated Trump in September 2023 and found him in “excellent” health – but never provided full details.
Another Jackson medical report After Trump was shot in the ear during an election rally last July, there was also a shortage of details.
But then Biden was forced to leave the elections after a stumbling performance in a TV debate against Trump in June that concerned about his cognitive health brought to the top of the agenda.
Since the return to the office, Trump has repeatedly compared his own strength with that of Biden, while the White House has accused the previous administration of obscuring what was the decline of the Democrat.
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