Washington:
Donald Trump said that he felt “very good size” on Friday after his first annual medical checkup after returning to the post of US President, an examination that focuses on the fitness of the oldest person selected to the White House.
The 78-year-old Republican Trump has repeatedly proud of his own strength after starting the second term, while his 82-year-old Democratic Eastern Joe Biden has been mocked as a dikripit and mentally. But now it is Trump, which will also be 82 at the end of its presidential post under the stethoscope.
“I thought I was in a very good shape. Good heart,” Trump told reporters in the Air Force, “I took a cognitive test. I don’t know what you have to tell you except every answer.”
Billionaire Washington arrived in the first day at Walter Reid Military Hospital in suburbs – after delay due to talks on tariffs.
“I have never felt better, but still, these things should be done!” Trump said on the truth social earlier this week.
Trump has been accused of lack of openness about his health despite repeated US Commander-in-Chief’s welfare.
Saying that he undergoing both cardio and cognitive tests, Trump said that a report would be released by his doctor on Sunday.
The White House had earlier stated that the President’s physician Scene Barbabella would give a readout of the physical and it would “definitely” provide a full report.
“I can confirm that the President is in a very good shape, as you see on a daily basis,” Press Secretary Karolin Levit told reporters earlier.
He said that Trump would not be a general anesthetic – which is usually used for processes such as colonoscopy – but added, “a lot to ensure that the President is meeting all his goals.”
Trump is a viral golfer that avoids alcohol and cigarettes.
But he is also known to indulge in fast food and enjoys the famously well done stake, although he appears quite thin during his first term.
‘Healthy person’
Trump’s individual and White House doctors have claimed many times about his health.
In 2015, during Trump’s first presidential post, his doctor Herold Bornstein issued a letter stating that the tycoon would “unevenly, the healthy person elected to the Presidential post.”
Bornstein later told CNN that Trump himself “determined the entire letter. I did not write that letter.”
In his first term, the doctor of the White House, Ronnie Jackson, said in 2018 that Trump with a healthy diet “could be 200 years old.”
Jackson’s report then suggested that Trump should target to lose 10 to 15 pounds, but he said that he was usually in “excellent health”, saying that there were no signs of “any cognitive issues”.
A year later, an examination found that 6 -foot -3 (1.9 m) Trump weighs 243 pounds (110 kg), which was up to seven pounds shortly before taking the office, technically prone to obesity. It said that he was taking medication to treat high cholesterol.
In 2020, Trump told Fox News that he conducted a test for cognitive loss by repeating the phrase “Person, women, men, camera, TV”.
Age became a major issue in the 2024 election when Trump and Biden faced as the oldest major party candidates in history.
Biden was forced to get out of the race after a stumble performance in a TV debate against Trump in June, which expressed concern over his cognitive health at the top of the agenda.
Ever since returning to office, Trump repeatedly compared his own strength to Biden, while the White House has accused the previous administration what it says that there was a decline of Democrats.
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