President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will receive his annual physical exam on Friday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. “I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Trump promised to release his medical records during the 2024 election but never did. His recent medical history is unknown.
But we do know that some of Trump’s health reports have produced memorable moments through the years:
In 2015,Trump’s campaign shared a report from his doctor brimming with superlatives. But the doctor, Harold Bornstein, later said Trump dictated the whole letter. In addition to praising then-candidate Trump’s “astonishingly excellent” lab results, the assessment went a tad over-the-top in describing Trump’s well-being: “His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary. If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
In 2018 Trump bristled at claims of his cognitive problems in a book and took a dementia test. Dr. Ronny Jackson said the president scored a 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Trump earlier tried to quiet the chatter about his mental health by dubbing himself “a very stable genius.”
Jackson also gushed about his overall health, even predicting Trump would be “fit for duty” for a second presidency.
In 2019 one of Trump’s doctors, Sean Conley, was accused of becoming an “instrument of his lies” because he too forecasted Trump’s well-being ― in glowing terms of course.
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In 2020 amid the pandemic, Trump again boasted about his mental acuity by bragging that he could remember “person, woman, man, camera, TV” in a cognitive test. But he got mocked instead.