President Trump takes questions from reporters on Air Power One on April 11, 2025.
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President Trump informed reporters {that a} cognitive examination was among the many checks he had on Friday throughout his first bodily of his second time period at Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Middle, and stated his medical doctors would ship a report about his ends in coming days.
“I took a cognitive check. And I do not know what to let you know, aside from I bought each reply proper,” Trump stated. “I took simply numerous totally different checks, having to do with the center, having to do with different issues.”
Presidents usually are not obligated to disclose their medical data, and there’s a lengthy historical past of presidents concealing their medical points.
Trump — who has been lower than forthcoming about his well being info in recent times — is 78, the oldest president to begin a second time period in workplace. His predecessor former President Joe Biden began his first time period on the identical age, and visibly slowed down whereas he was in workplace.
A cognitive check was a part of Trump’s first White Home bodily again in 2018. Trump later recounted how he “aced” the check.
The check was not a part of Biden’s 2024 bodily, a choice the White Home needed to defend after Biden struggled throughout his debate with Trump final summer season earlier than in the end dropping out of the presidential race.
