- Addressing a rally crowd in Ohio just last week, Trump spoke openly about overriding his doctors’ recommendations regarding his high daily dose of aspirin, saying: “I take an aspirin a day,” Trump told supporters. “I don’t know if it works, but psychologically I need it. They said, ‘Sir, you don’t need that!’ I said, ‘Do me a favor, I’ve been doing okay for 35 years. Leave me alone.’”
- In May, following what he described as a “six-month physical”, Trump said in a Truth Social post that “everything” had “checked out PERFECTLY” during the checkup.
- Trump previously visited Walter Reed for the first time in his second term for an annual physical in April 2025, after which the White House claimed he was in "excellent health” and weighing in at 224 pounds — 20 pounds lighter than what he weighed five years earlier.
- Lots has been made of the president showing signs of cognitive decline. But in December last year, Trump insisted he was “sharper than I was 25 years ago” – before, roughly 15 minutes later, appearing to struggle to keep his eyes open as his Commerce Secretary spoke.
- When running for president in 2015, Trump’s former doctor, the late Dr. Harold Bornstein, released a letter declaring Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” However, Bornstein later said the letter had been dictated by Trump himself.
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