{"id":1587,"date":"2026-06-05T22:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talesofmotivations.com\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:38:42","slug":"the-3-biggest-problems-with-the-results-of-trumps-latest-medical-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talesofmotivations.com\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"The 3 biggest problems with the results of Trump\u2019s latest medical exam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> has had quite a few medical visits since returning to the White House. The president had an annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center\u00a0in mid-April\u00a0last year, for example, followed by a \u201csemiannual physical\u201d in\u00a0early October.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0early January, Trump<\/a> had what was described as a brief dentist appointment in Florida.\u00a0In early May, he had another dentist appointment. Early last week, ahead of his 80th birthday, the oldest American president ever elected returned to Walter Reed for\u00a0his third \u201cannual\u201d physical in 13 months.<\/p>\n

After the appointment, Trump gave himself a clean bill of health and vowed to provide news organizations with a summary in \u201cthe next day or so.\u201d That was on Tuesday. It wasn\u2019t until Friday night \u2014 a time when the White House tends to release information it hopes the public will overlook \u2014 when there was some disclosure. MS NOW reported:<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> physician declared him in \u201cexcellent health,\u201d but recommended the president lose weight and exercise more following his latest physical exam. \u201cCognitive and physical performance are excellent,\u201d Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella wrote in his report released on Friday. \u201cHe is fully fit to carry out all duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first blush, that might seem like a routine summary, but a closer look suggests three lingering problems with the developments.<\/p>\n

What was in the report: The\u00a0three-page report\u00a0released by the White House included plenty of anodyne details, but it also added some curious elements. Barbabella, for example, stated that Trump<\/a> has\u00a0a \u201ccardiac age\u201d\u00a0of a 65-year-old, based on the results of an \u201cAI-enhanced electrocardiogram analysis.\u201d It also pointed to \u201cfrequent handshaking\u201d to explain the bruising that often appears on the president\u2019s left and right hands.<\/p>\n

Dr. Vin Gupta, a medical analyst for MS NOW,\u00a0noted online, \u201cWhen a President\u2019s physicians start citing \u2018AI cardiac age\u2019 metrics and explaining bilateral bruising from \u2018frequent handshaking,\u2019 the line between medical documentation and political messaging disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the same report from the White House noted that Trump also took another cognitive exam,\u00a0the fourth of his presidency.<\/p>\n

The Republican\u00a0claimed via social media\u00a0that the results showed his \u201cextreme intelligence.\u201d That wasn\u2019t even close to being true. As\u00a0The New York Times reported, the exam is \u201cmeant to screen for signs of dementia, Alzheimer\u2019s disease or other conditions.\u201d It is not, in other words, an intelligence test; it is simply designed to assess degenerative ailments. (If the president is going to make frequent reference to these exams, someone of his intelligence probably ought to learn what they are.)<\/p>\n

As for why exactly Trump<\/a> has taken four cognitive tests over the course of his presidency, no one at the White House has yet offered an explanation.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s not quite right.\u00a0The Wall Street Journal reported, for example, \u201cThe White House memorandum describing President\u00a0Trump\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Benen Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of\u00a0MaddowBlog\u00a0and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.” Latest Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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