Donald Trump well being fears after he admits ANOTHER hospital go to simply six weeks after final bodily
The frequency of visits by Trump, 80, to Walter Reed Military Hospital is highly unusual. Most Presidents have an annual physical checkup. Today’s visit would mark at least the fourth visit to the hospital for the elderly President since returning to office last January
Trump has been back at Walter Reed military hospital(Image: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Donald Trump admitted he’d had another physical – just six weeks after his previous visit.
The frequency of visits by Trump, 80, to Walter Reed Military Hospital is highly unusual. Most Presidents have an annual physical checkup. Today’s visit would mark at least the fourth visit to the hospital for the elderly President since returning to office last January.
It comes after a wave of speculation about President Trump’s mental and physical health after he made a string of embarrassing gaffes at the Nato Summit in Ankara earlier this week. He was also seen struggling to climb the stairs to Air Force One, and having to be guided through his red carpet arrival by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Trump sought to make light of the return visit – saying: “I do it every six months”. He began referring to taking “six month physicals” instead of annual checkups with his last visit to Walter Reed on 26 May, just 46 days ago.
Trump also claimed he had “requested another Cognitive Test, three times and I aced them all – Got every question right.” The test Trump is referring to is not a test of intelligence, but an assessment used by clinicians to identify the early signs of dementia. Experts say the efficacy of the test is diminished by taking it repeatedly.
Trump’s admission came after a fiery rant about New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, whose book Regime Change, co-authored with Jonathan Swan, sold more than 300,000 copies in its first week on sale. Despite Trump having sat down with Haberman and Swan for a “fact checking” interview ahead of the book’s publication, he claimed “90% of it is fake news”.
He wrote: “I just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every six months, and I requested another Cognitive Test, the only President to do so, three times, and I aced them all. Got every question right. Few people in Washington DC could do so, including Maggot [his delightful nickname for Haberman], and her flunky associate Jonathan Swan. I would be willing to bet they couldn’t get 50% of the questions right. Anyway, don’t buy their book, it’s garbage!”
