President Donald Trump plans to visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday for a medical and dental exam, according to a White House official.
This is the president’s third in-person medical visit in just over a year. He visited Walter Reed twice last year, April And October 2025. He also visited his dentist in West Palm Beach twice this year – first in January and then again earlier this month for a follow-up.
Trump, who turns 80 next month and is the oldest person to assume the presidency, regularly claims he is in excellent health, although rumors about his condition circulate. He made the promised vitality and energy a major part of his re-election campaign, mocking his rival as “Sleepy Joe Biden.”
But moments of apparent drowsiness and a visibly bruised hand, which the White House blamed on a handshake and taking aspirin as a blood thinner, continue to raise questions.
It was revealed last year that the president had chronic venous insufficiencyafter being examined for slight swelling of the legs.
Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in 2025.Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesTrump told the Wall Street Journal during an interview published in January that “aspirin is good for thinning” his blood and he doesn’t want “thick blood flowing through [his] heart.”
His October 2025 visit was initially described by the White House as a scheduled follow-up, but Trump later told reporters that he had undergone an MRI. The examination ultimately proved to be a CT scan of his heart and abdomen.
“President Trump has agreed to meet with the staff and soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Hospital in October. To make the most of the President’s time at the hospital, we have recommended that he undergo another routine physical evaluation to ensure optimal health,” Dr. Sean Barbabella, physician to the president, said in a statement to NBC News. “As part of this review, we asked the President if he would undergo advanced imaging – either an MRI or CT scan – to definitively rule out any cardiovascular problems. The President agreed and our team of consultants performed a CT scan. As we revealed in the post-exam report, the advanced imaging was perfectly normal and revealed absolutely no abnormalities.”
After his April 2025 visit to Walter Read, Barbabella said in a statement that the president “remains in excellent health, exhibiting strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological and general physical function.”
He continued: “President Trump’s days include attending multiple meetings, public appearances, press briefings and frequent victories in golf events. »