Donald Trump, 78, has a medical examination of almost 5 hours this Friday – Liberation

At 78, Donald Trump, the oldest president ever elected in the United States and who was accused during his first mandate not to be transparent on his health, is due to spend a medical visit this Friday, April 11. The republican billionaire must arrive at 11 a.m. (5 p.m. in Paris) at the Walter Reed military hospital, in the Label of Washington, and set off again at 3:45 p.m. (9:45 p.m. in Paris), almost five hours scheduled on site.

The White House has not given any indications on the nature of the exams that Donald Trump should undergo. But his spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said on Friday that the president’s doctor would communicate on the results. « I have never felt so well, however, these things must be done! »had written the American president on his Truth Social network on Monday, announcing this medical examination.

The question of the health of the American president has become particularly sensitive at the end of the presidency of Joe Biden, who, completing his mandate at 82, appeared with a steer approach and an increasingly confused speech. Where his republican opponent gives the appearance of greater physical vigor.

If Donald Trump does not drink alcohol and does not smoke, he does not hide his taste for sodas and food from fast-food chains. During the 2024 presidential race, he assured that he had passed a cognitive test and succeeded « With brilliance »without giving any detail.

In November 2023, the Republican had simply published a short letter from his doctor claiming that he was in « Excellent » health and that he had lost weight – without specifying how much. Since then, the billionaire has not provided a health bulletin. Unlike his predecessor, Joe Biden, who had long reports published very detailed, mentioning to his cholesterol level or the name of the medication he took for his allergies.

The Democrat also passed a colonoscopy under general anesthesia on November 19, 2021, during which vice-president Kamala Harris briefly carried out the presidential functions. A transparency that is not a habit at Donald Trump. The latter was often accused by his opponents of not communicating on his health, especially when during the last months of his first mandate, he had been hospitalized for several days for an infection at the COVVI-19.

To the lack of transparency is added serious accusations concerning medical balance sheets. A former doctor of Donald Trump, Harold Bornstein, had assured that the American president had one day « Dictation » A letter presenting him in excellent health, before he was elected for the first time. « If he was elected, I can assert unequivocally that Mr. Trump will be the healthy individual ever elected to the presidency »said this bulletin published in December 2015, without providing any evidence supporting this assertion. In May 2018, Dr. Bornstein, a gastroenterologist who had his office on Park Avenue, not far from Central Park, then said that Donald Trump had « Completely dictated this letter ».