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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, a 78-year-old who survived two assassination attempts last year while campaigning, received his annual physical exam Friday.
Trump said afterward that the results won’t be released until Sunday.
“Overall, I felt I was in very good shape,” the president told reporters on Air Force One Friday as he headed to Florida.
Trump also said he took a cognitive test and “I got every answer right.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that a readout from the president’s physician will be released with details from the exam, which happened at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where Trump was treated for COVID-19 in 2020. He spent a little over four hours there Friday.
Last July, Trump was the target of a 20-year-old gunman at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A bullet struck and injured the upper part of his right ear. Days later, Trump wore a large white bandage on his ear while attending the Republican National Convention to accept his party’s presidential nomination.
A Secret Service agent helped stop a second assassination attempt by spotting a man with a rifle hiding in shrubbery near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The president, an avid golfer and fast-food aficionado, revealed during his last term that he was on a statin drug to lower his cholesterol.
The White House typically determines what data will be released from a president’s health exam. Trump is not compelled to release any information, and there is no template for the presidential exam. Trump released only limited information about his health during his presidential campaigns.
During the 2024 election, Trump attacked his predecessor Joe Biden, now 82, for his age and alleged lack of vigor.
A White House doctor in 2018, when Trump was serving his first term, said the president was in overall excellent health but needed to shed weight and start a daily exercise routine.
Trump included a cognitive exam, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, as part of his physical during his first term, and his doctor later said he scored 30 out of 30.
Biden released detailed summaries of his physical exams while in office, but several books published in recent months have raised questions about his mental acuity in his final months in the White House.
The mental ability and age of both Biden and Trump were in focus during last year’s election campaign, especially after Biden’s disastrous performance in a debate with Trump in June, and Trump’s increasingly rambling speeches at rallies.
Contributing: Reuters