Donald Trump will today undergo his annual check up at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, following increased scrutiny over his health.
Trump, who turns 80 next month, frequently casts himself as more energetic and fitter than Joe Biden, his Democratic predecessor who left office last year at age 82 after facing questions about his fitness for the job.
Still, recent photographs showing a blotchy neck rash have added to questions about Trump’s health, following images in July last year of swollen ankles and a bruised hand concealed with makeup.
Trump, whose birthday is June 14, became the oldest person to assume the presidency when he began his second term in January 2025.
He maintains an active golf schedule, but joked about his relative lack of exercise at a recent Oval Office event where his health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr said the president walks nine miles (14.5 km) every time he goes golfing.
‘When I am not using the cart,’ Trump said.
