Donald Trump’s Annual Bodily Examination Reveals Drugs, Weight Loss

The outcomes from President Donald Trump’s first bodily examination of his second presidential time period have been launched.

Trump, 78, traveled to Walter Reed Military Medical Middle within the Washington, D.C., suburbs round 11 a.m. native time on Friday, April 11, when he spent the afternoon getting evaluated, earlier than flying straight to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend.

Days later, on Sunday, April 13, White Home doctor Sean Barbabella launched the outcomes, revealing what medicines Trump is taking, how a lot weight he has misplaced since his first time period and extra.

In keeping with the well being memo, Trump is on two medicines for ldl cholesterol management (Rosuvastatin and Ezetimibe), taking Aspirin for cardiac prevention and he additionally makes use of Mometasone cream as wanted for a pores and skin situation.

As for his weight, the 6-foot-3 politician weighs 224 lbs. Throughout his final bodily as president in 2020, he weighed 244 lbs., per the Related Press.

Elsewhere within the report, Barbabella stated Trump — who’s the oldest man to be elected president — is “totally match” to serve, as he praised the president’s “lively way of life” for serving to “to contribute considerably” to his total well being.

Some latest surgical procedures Trump underwent, per the well being doc, included cataract surgical procedure on each eyes, although dates weren’t included.

In July 2024, Trump had a colonoscopy that discovered a benign polyp and diverticulosis, a situation that impacts the wall of the colon.

As for Trump’s vaccinations, “All beneficial vaccinations are present, together with travel-related immunizations,” the memo said.

“President Trump stays in wonderful well being, exhibiting strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and common bodily operate,” Barbabella stated within the memo, highlighting that Trump’s “days embody participation in a number of conferences, public appearances, press availability, and frequent victories in golf occasions.”

Earlier within the week, when saying his bodily would happen, Trump shared on his Fact Social web page, “I’ve by no means felt higher, however nonetheless, this stuff have to be achieved!”

Although his predecessor, Joe Biden, was the oldest serving president by the top of his tenure, Trump grew to become the oldest particular person to be inaugurated president earlier this 12 months, as he was 78 years, 7 months on Jan. 20, 2025. He’ll develop into the oldest president in U.S. historical past if he serves out his full time period.

Trump was notoriously secretive about his well being throughout his first time period and didn’t launch any latest medical information as a part of his 2024 marketing campaign — even after a June assassination try, through which a bullet struck his ear.

In lieu of a medical report on the president’s restoration, his marketing campaign launched a memo from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White Home doctor and Trump supporter. Jackson stated solely that he had reviewed the president’s medical information and “fully concurred” with the therapy he acquired at Butler Memorial Hospital following the capturing.

Considerations about Trump’s cognitive talents had been steadily raised throughout his first time period and his presidential marketing campaign.

In June 2024, Selection editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh claimed that Trump had bother remembering him over the course of a number of prolonged interviews for his ebook Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America By way of the Trying Glass.

Throughout an look on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Setoodeh stated he started interviewing the previous president for his ebook in 2021. He recalled that, even supposing he and Trump shared six lengthy conversations over the course of his months-long analysis course of, the president would get a “vacant look on his face” when attempting to put him.

“Donald Trump had extreme reminiscence points,” Setoodeh claimed. “Because the journalist who spent essentially the most time with him, I’ve to say, he couldn’t bear in mind issues. He couldn’t even bear in mind me.”

The president’s psychological well being has additionally been referred to as into query by members of his family.

Shortly earlier than the 2024 election, Trump’s nephew, Fred C. Trump III, spoke with PEOPLE about his household’s historical past of dementia — and the way his uncle’s latest habits reminded him of different Trumps who’ve confronted cognitive well being challenges.

Fred particularly recalled his grandfather Fred Christ Trump Sr.’s battle with dementia over the last years of his life, saying that he’d seen parallels within the president’s habits in recent times. He recalled an encounter along with his uncle at Mar-a-Lago in 2023, the place he “simply appeared disoriented.”

“He saved repeating one thing to me time and time once more once I had met him,” Fred informed PEOPLE. “He saved repeating issues, and he simply appeared totally different. He appeared drained.”

Fred additionally stated that he’d seen his uncle had “no inhibitions about cursing in entrance of anyone” extra not too long ago. Whereas he acknowledged that “Donald has at all times cursed,” his nephew described the president’s latest communication as “outright nastiness.”

On the time, Trump’s marketing campaign dismissed the interview as “fully fabricated and complete faux information.”