Trump faces health questions ahead of another Walter Reed trip

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Source: Washington Post

President Donald Trump on Tuesday is expected to undergo his third scheduled medical checkup in 13 months, as outside physicians say they have persistent questions about the nearly 80-year-old president’s health and fitness.

Trump, the oldest president to ever be inaugurated, is scheduled to visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a medical and dental visit, the White House said earlier this month. The president went to Walter Reed in April 2025 for his annual physical exam — and returned in October for what officials characterized as a “scheduled follow-up,” sparking weeks of inquiries about Trump’s diagnosis and procedures that the White House repeatedly sidestepped.

Nearly three months after the visit, Trump and the White House clarified that the president had received a CT scan. His doctor, Sean Barbabella, described the imaging as preventive “to definitively rule out any cardiovascular issues.”

While the White House has a round-the-clock medical team that can privately attend to the president if needed, Walter Reed has facilities for advanced imaging and other procedures. Trump also has made two visits to a Florida dentist since January, the White House has said, with officials saying those were for routine cleaning and care.

The White House has repeatedly said the president is in “excellent health,” including in response to questions this weekend, citing medical reports produced by White House physicians, including one from Barbabella in October that said Trump “remains in exceptional health."

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/25/trump-faces-health-questions-ahead-another-walter-reed-trip

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— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-05-25T14:30:12.096Z

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1. yikes! a day ahead of his visit to Walter Reed, Trump's discolored hand is looking rough

Link to tweet

[regnaD kciN]

4. Time for another adrenochrome treatment...

He’s needing them more and more frequently.

[twodogsbarking]

2. Time to start construction of a subway from the WH to Walter Reed.

Shouldn't cost more than a few billion and Trump's cohorts will pay for it.

[purr-rat beauty]

3. The angels ain't having him...

...and the Devil doesn't want anything to do with him

[BarbD]

5. Let's see: 1) falls asleep in meetings

2) spouts nonsense
3) walks funny
4) etc. etc. etc.

[slightlv]

6. I have to go to the doc's every 3 months to get my pain meds renewed.

When I had the money for regular visits to my rheumatologist, they were scheduled every 3 months. This is a maintenance schedule. Every person with a chronic disease knows the routine. Most of us aren't capable of that schedule any longer. It's one of those "luxuries" that gets pushed down to a lower priority behind food, gas, and the light bill. How wonderful our president has full access, bought and paid for by we, the taxpayers who can't afford it for ourselves. In light of this, the fracking least they could do is come clean with the diagnoses and "retire" him from the office before he nukes the whole world.

[Katinfl]

7. Until he is diagnosed with a terminal condition, this is all just speculation.

I live in a retirement community. You have no idea how many doctor’s visit’s residents can have in a week/month. A lot. At his age, sorry to say, nothing new. However, I sure do hope and pray things change with him any day now.

[TurboDem]

8. I have a health question for Kraznov

When the fuck are you going to die? Every time I hear you are close to death I get my hopes up.

[Vinca]

9. That's all I want to know, too. How many more days do we have to live with him destroying everything?

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10. a day ahead of his latest trip to Walter Reed, Trump's hands looked downright cadaver-like on Memorial Day

trump does not look like he is healthy

Link to tweet

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11. White House breaks from precedent by not releasing Trump's medical report

trump is NOT well and the White House is not even going to release the bogus medical reports that they use to release

www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/p...

White House breaks from precedent by not releasing Trump’s medical report

— LunaLuvgood2020 (@lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social) 2026-05-29T23:44:42.849Z

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/politics/trump-physical-exam-results

The White House has yet to release any results from President Donald Trump’s most recent physical exam, a break from its own past practice that’s likely to fuel further questions about his health and fitness.

Trump, who is the oldest president to be inaugurated, declared on social media that he was in perfect health following an hourslong visit on Tuesday to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

But despite promising to provide a summary of the checkup in “the next day or so,” the White House has since offered no additional information — nor has it confirmed that Trump’s physician plans at any point to offer a public readout.

The three-day silence marks a departure from the White House’s handling of Trump’s prior physical exams. After a visit to Walter Reed last April, personal physician Dr. Sean Barbabella summarized the results in a memo released two days later. When Trump returned for another exam in October, Barbabella’s declaration that he remained in “exceptional health” was published later the same day.....

“It’s unimaginable to me that the White House would not release a statement about the president’s health — even the most basic statement,” said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor at The George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences who was the longtime cardiologist for former Vice President Dick Cheney. “It’s going to really spark concerns about the president’s fitness for office if the White House refuses to disclose his medical report.”

Maybe trump failed his latest cognitive test

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12. MaddowBlog-The 3 biggest problems with the results of Trump's latest medical exam

The president and his team have had multiple opportunities to earn the benefit of the doubt about his personal health. They keep failing.

The three biggest problems with the results of Trump’s latest medical exam (released Friday night, as part of an apparent attempt to bury the news):
- what was in the report released by the White House
- what *wasn’t* in the report
- the decade-long pattern of obfuscation
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-01T14:18:22.560Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/the-3-biggest-problems-with-the-results-of-trumps-latest-medical-exam

After the appointment, Trump gave himself a clean bill of health and vowed to provide news organizations with a summary in “the next day or so.” That was on Tuesday. It wasn’t until Friday night — a time when the White House tends to release information it hopes the public will overlook — when there was some disclosure. MS NOW reported:

President Donald Trump’s physician declared him in “excellent health,” but recommended the president lose weight and exercise more following his latest physical exam.

“Cognitive and physical performance are excellent,” Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella wrote in his report released on Friday. “He is fully fit to carry out all duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State.”

At first blush, that might seem like a routine summary, but a closer look suggests three lingering problems with the developments.

What was in the report: The three-page report released by the White House included plenty of anodyne details, but it also added some curious elements. Barbabella, for example, stated that Trump has a “cardiac age” of a 65-year-old, based on the results of an “AI-enhanced electrocardiogram analysis.” It also pointed to “frequent handshaking” to explain the bruising that often appears on the president’s left and right hands.

Dr. Vin Gupta, a medical analyst for MS NOW, noted online, “When a President’s physicians start citing ‘AI cardiac age’ metrics and explaining bilateral bruising from ‘frequent handshaking,’ the line between medical documentation and political messaging disappears.”

What’s more, the same report from the White House noted that Trump also took another cognitive exam, the fourth of his presidency.....

What was not in the report: That the documentation released by the White House spanned three pages might give the impression of comprehensiveness, but that’s not quite right. The Wall Street Journal reported, for example, “The White House memorandum describing President Trump’s recent physical examination lacks details of the results of tests to assess his cardiovascular health, according to physicians who read the report. That is one of several areas of the report that doctors said stood out for its lack of specificity.”.....

The lengthy pattern: The problem started before Trump even took office. In late 2015, during the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Team Trump released an unintentionally hilarious four-paragraph letter from the late Dr. Harold Bornstein, asserting that Trump’s “physical strength and stamina are extraordinary” and that his lab tests results were “astonishingly excellent.” The doctor added at the time, “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

We learned several months later that Bornstein wrote the letter in five minutes while a limo, dispatched by Trump, waited for the document.....

The president and his team, in other words, have had multiple opportunities to earn the benefit of the doubt about his personal health and medical history. They keep failing.