Trump, 79, Posts Dubious Health Brag After Hours at Walter Reed
President Donald Trump has declared that his latest hospital check-up went perfectly, despite a litany of concerns about his health.
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After spending the morning at Walter Reed Medical Center for the third time in just over a year, the 79-year-old president returned to the White House shortly before 1 p.m. and posted an update as he returned from the hospital.
“Just finished my 6 month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out PERFECTLY. Thank you to the great Doctors and Staff! Heading back to the White House. President DJT,” he wrote.
The White House is yet to provide an official medical report so it is not known how well the examination went.
But Trump’s not-so-humble brag comes amid growing concerns about the president’s health from doctors, Democrats and some within MAGA world. His reference to a “6 month physical” also raised eyebrows.
Trump, who turns 80 on June 14, is the oldest American president to be inaugurated. He spent years mocking his predecessor Joe Biden’s mental and physical health, but now faces many questions about his own capacity to serve, with frequent bruises on his hands, swollen ankles and increasingly erratic behavior.
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Photographers captured his makeup-covered discolored hand as he marked Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery on Monday, where he was also spotted with his eyes closed for an extended time during Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth’s speech.
But it is not the first time he has fallen asleep during pubic events, earning him the nickname “Dozy Don” and suggestions he may have chronic insomnia.
“Chronic insomnia is a severe illness. It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, decrease in cognitive effects in older people,” leading cardiologist Jonathan Reiner told CNN on Monday.
“He’s fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the Cabinet room, and I was concerned yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day observances.”
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This is a developing story and will be updated.
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