Trump says he ‘checked out perfectly’ after three-plus-hour physical exam

WASHINGTON — President Trump claimed doctors have no concerns following his more than three-hour physical exam Tuesday.

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“Just finished my 6 month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out PERFECTLY,” the president wrote on Truth Social as his motorcade headed back to the White House.

“Thank you to the great Doctors and Staff!”

A report with additional detail on Trump’s evaluation will likely be released later this week. 

Trump is set to turn 80 on June 14, and sharp-eyed observers have often noted bruising on his hands, which the president attributes to heavy use of aspirin, as well as leg swelling from chronic venous insufficiency.

The president and his top aides frequently crow about his physical and mental condition, with Trump often boasting about how he has aced several cognitive exams.

The exam was Trump’s third since taking office in January 2025.

The president has shown few signs of slowing down despite being the second-oldest man to hold the highest office in the US.

Only Joe Biden, who left office last year at 82, was older — with fellow Democrats forcing the 46th president to abandon his re-election campaign due to his perceived cognitive decline. 

Trump, by contrast, frequently stands on stage to deliver high-energy speeches, ripping rivals, cracking jokes and running through all major news topics — including appearing in the Hudson Valley Friday for a raucous 90-minute address before dancing offstage to The Village People’s “YMCA”.

But critics often circulate images of Trump resting his eyes during extended remarks by others and Trump has recognized the need to manage perceptions.

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In an in-depth health-focused interview with the Wall Street Journal published in January, the president revealed that he takes 325 milligrams of aspirin every day — much higher than the 81-milligram regimen recommended as a heart-health precaution.

“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump said. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?” 

He said he ignores medical recommendations to lower the dose to alleviate bruising on his hands because “I’m a little superstitious.”

For his chronic venous insufficiency, which causes blood to pool in the lower limbs, Trump briefly wore compression socks — the standard treatment to prevent blood clots — but told the Journal he later stopped using them.

“I didn’t like them,” Trump said.

Theories swirled last year after Trump in October said he got an MRI scan during his physical. Months later, in January, his physician Dr. Sean Barbabella, clarified that Trump underwent a less-comprehensive CT scan.

“I would have been a lot better off if they didn’t [do the scan], because the fact that I took it said, ‘Oh gee, is something wrong?’” Trump told the Journal. “Well, nothing’s wrong.”

Trump’s aides have for years spun his health in superlative terms.

“Donald Trump is never tired and he is never sick,” his first-term adviser and spokeswoman Hope Hicks famously pronounced.

Dr. Ronny Jackson, currently a Texas Republican congressman, told reporters while White House physician in 2018 that Trump “might live to be 200” with a healthier diet. 

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