WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is in a “good health condition”, White House doctors’ assessment said Sunday that he has undergone his first annual medical checkup since returning to the U.S. president.
Trump, 78, has repeatedly boasted about his vitality since he began his second term, while mocking his 82-year-old Democratic ex Joe Biden for losing his life and is mentally unsuitable for office.
“President Trump has shown excellent cognition and physical fitness and is fully suited to the duties of the commander-in-chief and head of state,” a letter from a doctor shared by the White House.
It noticed some abnormalities, including smaller sun damage to Trump’s skin, and a scar of the right ear that suffered a gunshot wound in an assassination attempt last July.
A colonoscopy last year showed that Trump had diverticulosis (a small bag in the colon) and a benign polyp, adding that a follow-up exam was recommended within three years.
It says Trump is taking four medications: two aspirin, a heart-preventing a heart, and a steroid skin cream.
The report is generally a free compliment to Trump’s health, praising his “active lifestyle” and citing his “frequent victory in golf events,” a common token of billionaires who also quit drinking.
However, he is known to be addicted to fast food restaurants and enjoys the famous steak – although he looks thinner than his first semester.
The latest report puts him currently at 224 pounds (101.6 kg), down from 243 pounds in 2019.
Trump said Friday he felt “very good” after taking exams at Walter Reed Military Hospital in suburban Washington.
“I took the cognitive test. I don’t know what to tell you,” he told the reporter on Air Force One.
Weird health claims
Despite his great interest in the well-being of the U.S. commander-in-chief, Trump has been accused of lacking openness to his health.
The White House previously said that Presidential physician Sean Barbabella will read the body and of course “will provide a full report.”
But Trump’s personal and White House doctors sometimes make weird claims about his health.
In 2015, in Trump’s first presidential election, his doctor, Harold Bornstein, published a letter saying that the “tycoon” would be the healthiest person ever to be elected president. ”
Bernstein later told CNN Trump himself “decided the whole letter. I didn’t write that letter.”
White House doctors in his first semester Ronny Jackson said in 2018 that Trump’s diet is healthier and could “live until 200 years.”
Jackson’s report later suggested Trump should intend to reduce 10 to 15 pounds, but said he was usually in a “good health” and added that there were no signs of “any cognitive problems.”
A year later, an exam found that Trump, who was 6-foot-3 (1.9 meters) in weight was 243 pounds and had gained 7 pounds shortly before taking office, making him technically obese.
Age became the main issue in the 2024 election, when Trump and Biden became the oldest major party candidates in U.S. history.
Biden was forced to quit the game after stumbling blocks in a television debate against Trump in June, making his concerns about cognitive health atop the agenda.
