Trump to undergo annual physical after year of public attention to health issues

Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, will undergo his routine annual physical on Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, after a year of public attention on apparently minor health issues. The US president frequently casts himself as more energetic and fitter than Joe Biden, his Democratic predecessor who left office last year at age 82 after facing questions about his fitness for the job. Still, recent photographs showing a blotchy neck rash have added to questions about Trump’s health, after images in July 2025 of swollen ankles and a bruised hand concealed with makeup. Trump, whose birthday is 14 June, became the oldest person to assume the presidency when he began his second term in January 2025. Trump maintains an active golf schedule, but joked about his relative lack of exercise at a recent Oval Office event where his health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr said the president walks nine miles (14.5 km) every time he goes golfing. “When I am not using the cart,” Trump said. Sean Barbabella, the White House physician, has said Trump is using a common cream as “a preventative skin treatment” to address the neck rash, but he has not given details of the condition being treated. After the photographs of the president’s legs and hands were published last July, Barbabella said in a letter that the ailments were benign and that there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease. …