White House promises details as Donald Trump, oldest president in US history, has medical check-up

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

87% : Before Jackson's memo, Americans hadn't seen key details since November 2023, when Dr Bruce A Aronwald released a letter to coincide with Biden's 81st birthday, saying Trump was in "excellent" physical and mental health.
67% : A White House doctor in 2018, when Trump was serving his first term, said the president was in overall excellent health but needed to shed weight and start a daily exercise routine.
62% : Instead, Aronwlad wrote that he'd examined Trump and found his "physical exams were well within the normal range and his cognitive exams were exceptional", while also noting that Trump had "reduced his weight". Arguably, Trump's most famous past comments about his own health came during a television interview in July 2020, when he listed off "Person.
50% : Trump has long opted for offering few substantive details about his health.
49% : But on Inauguration Day of his second term in January, Trump was five months older than Biden was during his 2021 inauguration, making Trump the nation's oldest president to be sworn into office.
48% : In a subsequent interview with CBS in August last year, Trump said he'd "very gladly" release his medical records but never did.
46% : Trump said that a collection of those five nouns, or ones like them, stated in order, demonstrated mental fitness and were part of a cognitive test he had aced.
40% : Press secretary pledges to release update from physician 'as soon as we possibly can' about leader who has routinely kept health status secret Donald Trump had his annual medical examination on Friday, a check-up that may give the public its first details in years about the health of a man who, in January, became the oldest in US history to be sworn in as president.
36% : Despite long questioning predecessor Joe Biden's physical and mental capacity, Trump has routinely kept basic facts about his own health shrouded in secrecy - shying away from traditional presidential transparency on medical issues.
33% : She noted that the physical didn't require Trump being placed under anaesthesia.
30% : Trump is three years younger than Biden.

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