Trump wraps up 3-hour medical visit to Walter Reed and declares 'Everything checked out PERFECTLY'

[demmiblue]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had another medical exam on Tuesday, putting his health under renewed public scrutiny as he has worked to dismiss concerns over his age and stamina.

The 79-year-old president spent more than three hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what the White House described as preventive medical and dental checkups. It was Trump’s fourth publicly disclosed medical exam since he returned to office for a second term, and it comes as he tries to project strength ahead of midterm elections that will test his sway with voters.

In a social media post after the visit, Trump said that he had just finished his “6 month physical” and that “Everything checked out PERFECTLY.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/us-trump-health-doctor-annual-exam-dff4cdb714d42ef860531d345c54e7aa

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[MiHale]

1. Is he going to start bragging about his cognitive tests again...

4 in a row, perfect scores…no president ever had such high scores, especially after 4 times.

[BaronChocula]

2. Glad AP had the stones to include these paragraphs

A Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted in April found that less than half of U.S. adults think Trump has the mental sharpness or physical health to serve effectively as president.

“I think concern for the president’s physical health is probably at an all-time high, and I think advanced physical age is the No. 1 concern,” said Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, who served as a White House physician for more than a decade under Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

[travelingthrulife]

25. No, Jeffrey, dementia and psychotic behavior is the concern.

These doctors are covering up a huge security risk.

[generalbetrayus]

3. Three hours for preventive medical and dental checkups?

I wish my health insurance was that lenient.

[intrepidity]

8. And you know none of it was sitting in a waiting room

Maybe getting blood results before proceeding with ... whatever?

Maybe some root canals (I hope)?

[MissouriDem47]

4. Why Did It Take 3 Hours?

Something serious must be going to for them to take 3 hours.

[generalbetrayus]

6. Maybe it takes that long to recharge his battery.

[The Madcap]

11. Or graft in another brain...

[SeattleVet]

18. Took him a long time to figure out which one was the lion.

[Skittles]

22. yes

and you know with that privileged asshole there is no WAIT TIME

[Vogon_Glory]

26. Becuz it takes him that long to jog 12 miles on the treatmill

[RockRaven]

5. I like presidents who don't require three hour medical visits.

[woodsprite]

7. Did they add new animals to his list? nt

[bmichaelh]

9. Poor vocabulary

More of his poor vocabulary.

Trump either describes something as the best ever or perfect; or worst ever or terrible.

He is not about to describe his physical or medical tests as worst ever or terrible.

Did they do brain imaging for Frontotemporal dementia?

[Ilikepurple]

10. I like how the press rarely questions whether truth social posts come from Trump

They always report Trump “says” or “declares” rather than his “account posted” because it gives the impression that he has constant interaction with the press. I’m not sure he hasn’t, but to my knowledge, he rarely if ever has press interaction after these visits. It might be because he’s receiving treatments rather than getting checked out and isn’t in top form?
After all the press speculation about Biden’s health, I’m disappointed that the press participates in the illusion that Trump makes every post and is more visibly engaged than he is while somewhat ignoring all but his most grievous posting, sleeping and speech gaffes. I think it has been instrumental in maintaining support from both his base and, more importantly, the less engaged conservative voter.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Liar. I'll never believe anything he says, and besides, who among the cowards surrounding him would Amendment

him out of office? None of them! F!!!ing cowards, more concerned about their party's rule vs. the Country's.

[The Roux Comes First]

13. Of Course We Can Just Take His Word for It!

The absolute poster-child for unreliable witness.

If his lips are moving, he's lying, as someone once said.

[in2herbs]

14. Is he going back to the WH or straight to Camp David???? nt

[City Lights]

15. 3 hours, eh?

Seems suspicious to me!

[LudwigPastorius]

16. 3 hours?

[Torchlight]

17. Seven dental checkups in two and half months seems rather sketchy

I'm kinda surprised he doesn't use a quick nine holes as his excuse... at least then he has a plausible excuse to return once every (app.) 9.25 days.

[yardwork]

28. Something is wrong with his teeth.

If it's true that he's had that many dental procedures in a short time.

[Blumancru]

19. My theory : The real one went to hamburger heaven long ago

And has been replaced with his audio animatron from Disney World. He has to go to Florida every weekend to get the battery recharged and to Walter Reed for software updates and to top off the hydraulic fluid.

[dave99]

20. Looks/reads like a STENT placement. Don't want the heart shutting down in middle of its wallow walk.

[Grokenstein]

21. If it had actually gone "perfectly"

they would have wheeled him out toes-up in a zipper bag.

[Bayard]

23. Four exams in less than six months......

That's PERFECTLY unbelievable that nothing's wrong.

[Deminpenn]

24. 3 hours is a long time

As has been pointed out, there's no waiting for his docs or for the results of whatever blood work that might have been done.

Dental exams don't take that long either unless there was a teeth cleaning which might take aqhile

[CTyankee]

27. takes a while to remove his head from up in his ass....

[3catwoman3]

29. Why would he have to go to Florida to see his dentist?

Surely there is top-shelf dental care available in Washington. And if the FL dentist is so special, why not fly him to DC instead of all the fuss and expense of traveling with the Secret Service, the limo, etc, etc?

[usonian]

30. Don't overthink it. These are like building inspections.

If the building checks out, see you in a few years.

If it's falling apart, red-tag it, call in the repair crew and schedule monthly inspections of the work.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. 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

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. They extracted his head from his ass?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. 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.