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Goonch

(4,392 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:17 AM Oct 2025

President Donald Trump is in 'exceptional health,' his doctor says, after visit to Walter Reed



WASHINGTON (AP) —

President Donald Trump is in “exceptional health,” his physician said Friday after he underwent a checkup that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Trump spent roughly three hours at the Bethesda, Maryland, hospital earlier Friday for what his doctor, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, called a “scheduled follow-up evaluation” that was a “part of his ongoing health maintenance plan.” While there, Trump also got his yearly flu shot, as well as a COVID-19 booster vaccine.

“President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and physical performance,” Barbabella wrote in a one-page memo released Friday night by the White House. The doctor noted in the memo that the evaluation helped prepare for Trump’s upcoming overseas trips and included advanced imaging, lab testing and preventive health assessments.

The president is traveling to the Middle East this weekend and is scheduled to fly to Asia at the end of this month.

Barbabella also said he evaluated Trump’s cardiac age, which was about 14 years younger than his chronological age. Trump is 79 and was the oldest U.S. president at his inauguration...............

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-physical-walter-reed-e4c3cd4ef5aab8e4d86d00b02a1ed710
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President Donald Trump is in 'exceptional health,' his doctor says, after visit to Walter Reed (Original Post) Goonch Oct 2025 OP
Hahaha! Sure... SheltieLover Oct 2025 #1
The word exceptional is neutral like comment... Hugin Oct 2025 #10
BS, I don't care what any Doctor says....the motherfucker is SICK. walkingman Oct 2025 #2
The doctor is delirious after smelling so much methane gas Tribetime Oct 2025 #3
Yet they admitted he has vascular issues misanthrope Oct 2025 #4
Hegseth to all doctors: "Remember you are a military doctor and he is the commander-in-chief" dalton99a Oct 2025 #5
oh so all the vascular problems are gone? Takket Oct 2025 #6
The Chronic liar-in-chief has a chronically lying doctor. Baitball Blogger Oct 2025 #7
advanced imaging bucolic_frolic Oct 2025 #8
It's not something I routinely get at my yearly doctor's visit. gab13by13 Oct 2025 #13
Do how does Karolyin' explain the COVID vaccine and the Flu shot then? ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2025 #9
Oh, GMAFB. GoCubsGo Oct 2025 #11
Mental evaluation ? Man , woman ? Psychological ? Psychotic ? Tetrachloride Oct 2025 #12
Don't forget vagina neck, his big necktie hides it. gab13by13 Oct 2025 #14
"Except for his blood pressure, diabetes & his memory"! imanamerican63 Oct 2025 #15
He is in exceptional health. The greatest, awesomest, bigliest, phantasmagorical health ever Wednesdays Oct 2025 #16
Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella Goonch Oct 2025 #17
About 40% of doctors in military medicine are D.O.s dalton99a Oct 2025 #23
Exceptional.....yeah, that's the ticket! tanyev Oct 2025 #18
What a damn liar. And note Trump gets all the shots, unlike some. I hate him. mucholderthandirt Oct 2025 #19
And he only weights 238 pounds. ha ha republianmushroom Oct 2025 #20
Did he take the VDRL test for syphilis? displacedvermoter Oct 2025 #21
"...also totally does not have a tiny penis." flvegan Oct 2025 #22
I want to know which modality/modalities the 'advanced imaging' are irisblue Oct 2025 #24
Was he the same doctor that hid Trump's "dangerously low" oxygen levels when he had COVID? W_HAMILTON Oct 2025 #25
And/or Sean Spicer. 😁 PCIntern Oct 2025 #32
He is exceptionally healthy for someone who just had a stroke. Bluestocking Oct 2025 #26
How stupid or blind do they think we are? Diamond_Dog Oct 2025 #27
Sure, doc, we believe you. 🙄 mwmisses4289 Oct 2025 #28
Exceptional. Not exceptionally good, mind you, just exceptional in some way. unblock Oct 2025 #29
Keep f-lying, dumpie Clouds Passing Oct 2025 #30
"Exceptional" is a meaningless word technically. PCIntern Oct 2025 #31
Thanks Dr. Toilet-Licker Blue Owl Oct 2025 #33
As we say here malaise Oct 2025 #34
Hm mr715 Oct 2025 #35
Honest physicians do not use words like that. LuckyCharms Oct 2025 #36
The Hypocritical Oaf lame54 Oct 2025 #37
"exceptional health" Yeah, whatever. 2MuchNoise Oct 2025 #38
Given the kind of "doctors" trump uses... Paladin Oct 2025 #39

Hugin

(37,622 posts)
10. The word exceptional is neutral like comment...
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:35 AM
Oct 2025

Are they saying good or bad comments.

Trump is obviously exceptionally ignorant and greedy as well.

Personally, I believe this medical was either a remnant of the pompous Nobel victory lap that never was along with the announcement of the Qatari base in Idaho, which seemed curiously out of context in its timing. Or they were trying to get him to shut up in his demanding a med bed that he’s heard about on the Internets.

misanthrope

(9,423 posts)
4. Yet they admitted he has vascular issues
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:24 AM
Oct 2025

causing edema just months ago. Those issues would belie any assessment citing “exceptional” health.

dalton99a

(92,843 posts)
5. Hegseth to all doctors: "Remember you are a military doctor and he is the commander-in-chief"
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:24 AM
Oct 2025

"Better shut your mouth and do whatever he says"



ProudMNDemocrat

(20,681 posts)
9. Do how does Karolyin' explain the COVID vaccine and the Flu shot then?
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:34 AM
Oct 2025

While Sec.Worm Brain continues to speak against them?

GoCubsGo

(34,748 posts)
11. Oh, GMAFB.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:43 AM
Oct 2025

The only thing here that is "exceptional" is the lengths at which you assholes going to in order to keep that disgusting sack of shit alive, and to cover up all of his issues. Y'all can fuck right off with this bullshit. Dr. Barbabella needs to have his medical license revoked.

They really do think we're all stupid, don't they?

Tetrachloride

(9,490 posts)
12. Mental evaluation ? Man , woman ? Psychological ? Psychotic ?
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:45 AM
Oct 2025

what about those jowls ? the pectorals ? The diapers ? The makeup ?

Wednesdays

(21,916 posts)
16. He is in exceptional health. The greatest, awesomest, bigliest, phantasmagorical health ever
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:54 AM
Oct 2025

in all of the history of the human race.

Goonch

(4,392 posts)
17. Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 11:01 AM
Oct 2025

According to the American Osteopathic Association, the White House confirmed that Trump selected Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, a doctor of osteopathy, to be his official doctor.

According to A.T. Still University (ATSU), Barbabella is a 1996 graduate of ATSU's Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.

displacedvermoter

(4,185 posts)
21. Did he take the VDRL test for syphilis?
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 11:31 AM
Oct 2025

I bet he passed that with flying colors. I believe he is exceptionally healthy for someone with tertiary stage syphilis.

irisblue

(37,061 posts)
24. I want to know which modality/modalities the 'advanced imaging' are
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 11:48 AM
Oct 2025

I'm a retired Radiologic Technologist. I personally am betting that a Positron emission tomography (PET) scans was done to identify areas of decreased brain metabolism, which is a characteristic feature of dementia.
He has a direct family history of Alzheimers.

Also some type of Cardiac studies, maybe a cardiac MRI & a MUGA scan -Multigated Acquisition (MUGA) scan is a non-invasive nuclear medicine test that assesses the function of the heart. That test is done with radioactive tracer.

W_HAMILTON

(10,238 posts)
25. Was he the same doctor that hid Trump's "dangerously low" oxygen levels when he had COVID?
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 11:48 AM
Oct 2025

The name rings a bell...

EDIT: It was a different Sean that was lying to us at the time: Sean Conley. Here's more about it, in case anyone forgot: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/11/trump-coronavirus-ventilator-covid-illness

PCIntern

(28,090 posts)
31. "Exceptional" is a meaningless word technically.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 12:21 PM
Oct 2025

I mean, I would describe Donald Trump’s mental health compared with virtually anyone I’ve ever met as “exceptional“, inasmuch as I have never met anyone who exhibits the level of disease in the fashion in which he exhibits it. And I’ve only had a total of about 60,000 patients in my lifetime.

The combination of pathologies is “remarkable” and “almost beyond description” as well as “one-of-a-kind”.

 

Paladin

(32,354 posts)
39. Given the kind of "doctors" trump uses...
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 01:57 PM
Oct 2025

...I'm surprised he didn't emerge from Walter Reed as a member of the U.S. Olympic triathlon team. And the MAGAts would have believed it...

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