Trump undergoes first medical since return to power
Donald Trump undergoes his first annual medical Friday since returning to power, putting the focus on a 78-year-old who is the oldest US president ever elected and has regularly faced accusations of a lack of transparency about his health.
Republican Trump has repeatedly boasted about his own vigor since starting his second term in the White House while mocking his 82-year-old Democratic predecessor Joe Biden as decrepit and mentally unfit for office.
But now it will be Trump under scrutiny, with the billionaire due to arrive at the Walter Reed military hospital in the Washington suburbs at 11:00 am (1500 GMT) and expected to spend some five hours there.
“I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!” Trump said on Truth Social earlier this week.
It was not immediately clear when the results of the exam being led by presidential physician Sean Barbabella would be released, or how detailed they would be.
Trump has repeatedly been accused of a lack of openness about his health despite huge interest in the well-being of America’s commander-in-chief.
Trump is a prolific golfer who abstains from alcohol and cigarettes.
But he is also known to indulge in fast food and famously enjoys his steaks well done, although he appears noticeably thinner than during his first term.
– ‘Healthiest individual’ –
Trump’s personal and White House doctors have at times made outlandish claims about his health.
In 2015, as Trump was running for the presidency for the first time, his doctor Harold Bornstein released a letter saying that the tycoon “unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Bornstein later told CNN that Trump himself “dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter.”
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