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riversedge

(78,568 posts)
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:26 AM Oct 9

Trump to Get Second 'Yearly' Health Screening in Months

Source: time.com



Oct 9, 2025 4:10 AM CT Chad de Guzman

When President Donald Trump visits the military hospital Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday for a planned meeting and remarks with troops, he will also “stop by for his routine yearly check up,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said yesterday. But for Trump, this “yearly” check up will come just six months after his last known medical screening in April, fueling already growing skepticism about the state of his health.

Trump and the White House have tried to dispel rumors about Trump’s decline, but questions about his fitness and ability to lead the country have loomed, fueled in part by the appearance of bruises on his hands, swollen ankles, and apparent mental lapses. A September YouGov survey found that nearly two-thirds of Americans say that Trump's health and age are affecting his ability to govern, while some 49% say he is experiencing a cognitive and physical decline.



The concerns come after the now-79-year-old campaigned last year against rival President Joe Biden, highlighting concerns surrounding Biden’s age and fitness. Trump set the record at age 78 years and seven months at his second inauguration in January for the oldest person to assume the Oval Office, beating Biden’s age at inauguration in 2021 by five months.
Second annual physical this year

While the White House described the visit as a “routine yearly” assessment, Trump had already gone through a checkup on April 11. Before that physical, Trump posted on Truth Social that he was to undergo a “long scheduled Annual Physical Examination,” the first of his second presidential term, adding: “I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!”.............................

Read more: https://time.com/7324644/trump-walter-reed-routine-yearly-check-up-second-health-concerns/



Something has to give --and maybe soon??
I am referring to the obvious inability of Trump to speak clearly without mixing up words and repeating himself constantly.




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Trump to Get Second 'Yearly' Health Screening in Months (Original Post) riversedge Oct 9 OP
Isn't it an oxymoron to say 2nd yearly screening? gab13by13 Oct 9 #1
Yup, that's the point of the punctuation around the word yearly in the headline, it inherently makes no sense. nt thesquanderer Oct 9 #3
He'll say he passed and in fact got the all time high score underpants Oct 9 #8
With the emphasis on 'moron.' Harker Oct 9 #13
I won't tell nobody, but ya spelt "moran" wrong. 3Hotdogs Oct 9 #25
I gotta get a brain! Harker Oct 9 #29
I know it's not your fault, but ya gotta do better. 3Hotdogs Oct 9 #33
Becoming increasingly impossible to deflect from what is really going on... hlthe2b Oct 9 #2
"Second 'Yearly' Health Screening" is political double speak for something is wrong and lets get it checked out.nt mitch96 Oct 9 #4
Heart tests - his is failing! lark Oct 9 #5
how can they test something he doesn't have? lastlib Oct 9 #30
Six weeks of war drums, chants, cheers, fireworks, and liquor purchases The Madcap Oct 9 #31
Like Tim said, we can sleep.... lastlib Oct 9 #35
It does not matter what the results are. Katinfl Oct 9 #6
Anything with a 3 weeks 1 week pattern is on the table bucolic_frolic Oct 9 #7
Who cares,it will all be a BS "result". All I care about are daily pics of this brain addled Bengus81 Oct 9 #9
"Person, man, hand, clot, medbed, heaven PuraVidaDreamin Oct 9 #10
I think we're approaching the "Patterns of Force" episode of Star Trek TOS Ray Bruns Oct 9 #11
Except "John Gill" was intelligent with good motives. trump has neither. PSPS Oct 9 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author Omaha Steve Oct 9 #12
So? Oeditpus Rex Oct 9 #14
Even then it'll be lies durablend Oct 9 #15
They want him on a gurney w a team around him, paddles in hand, for when the Peace Prize is announced on Friday. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 9 #16
I so want to say more plastic surgery... ananda Oct 9 #17
Putrid Pumpkin Pedo needs an exit strategy when he's outed Ponietz Oct 9 #19
Reportedly did an all nighter for the cognitive test. Sneederbunk Oct 9 #20
Get set for a lot of lying. republianmushroom Oct 9 #21
It feels like the Blessed Day is approaching at last. mwb970 Oct 9 #22
They were so impressed by his high level of health in April... EarthFirst Oct 9 #23
This will just be another bought doctor Figarosmom Oct 9 #24
You will look great in a casket...go for it... Submariner Oct 9 #26
And the American people can look forward to ANOTHER LYING REPORT from the doctors. usaf-vet Oct 9 #27
When he finally does go to see Satan The Madcap Oct 9 #32
Come on, Jesus. Do it for me and I'l stop making fun of your inability to manage money 3Hotdogs Oct 9 #28
Jesus take the heel. twodogsbarking Oct 9 #34
"stop by"? CTyankee Oct 9 #36
Decomposing before our eyes. Aussie105 Oct 9 #37
trump is NOT well and needs more testing LetMyPeopleVote Oct 9 #38

thesquanderer

(12,827 posts)
3. Yup, that's the point of the punctuation around the word yearly in the headline, it inherently makes no sense. nt
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:36 AM
Oct 9

3Hotdogs

(14,750 posts)
33. I know it's not your fault, but ya gotta do better.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 01:18 PM
Oct 9

Kids ('utes to the unwashed) learn how to spell from adults.

hlthe2b

(111,937 posts)
2. Becoming increasingly impossible to deflect from what is really going on...
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:29 AM
Oct 9

Especially when you have an immense number of knowledgeable clinicians and specialists, quite familiar with his obvious symptoms, seeing him display before our eyes every day. Albeit, I do admit that some "medical analysts" are so intent on giving him benefit-of-the-doubt that they swallow and try to accommodate the ridiculous explanations given at every turn. They infuriate me.

mitch96

(15,546 posts)
4. "Second 'Yearly' Health Screening" is political double speak for something is wrong and lets get it checked out.nt
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:41 AM
Oct 9

lark

(25,616 posts)
5. Heart tests - his is failing!
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:46 AM
Oct 9

He's taking medicine for heart failure, his ankles are awful, he has to get intravenous meds daily (more?), can barely speak, can't walk a straight line, is confused and out of it. It must be really bad behind the scenes that he can't be treated at the WH and has to go to the hospital.

He's in awful shape, just needs to fall over in public, writhe in agony and die!!!

lastlib

(26,982 posts)
30. how can they test something he doesn't have?
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:59 PM
Oct 9

I would rather he fall over in public, and turn into a drooling, slobbering, self-shitting vegetable for six weeks, THEN take the dirt nap.

The Madcap

(1,557 posts)
31. Six weeks of war drums, chants, cheers, fireworks, and liquor purchases
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 01:15 PM
Oct 9

Leading up to the big day...

And that's just in my neighborhood. I'll never get any sleep.

lastlib

(26,982 posts)
35. Like Tim said, we can sleep....
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 03:45 PM
Oct 9

when we're dead. But with The Felon dead or dying, it'll be non-stop, like you said. Party like 1999 on steroids....

Katinfl

(539 posts)
6. It does not matter what the results are.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:58 AM
Oct 9

It will all be lies. He will be in the “best shape ever”…..you know the rest of the spiel. I don’t believe anything this wH says.




Bengus81

(9,536 posts)
9. Who cares,it will all be a BS "result". All I care about are daily pics of this brain addled
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 09:24 AM
Oct 9

POS moving one day closer to death. Make it soon Trump!

Response to riversedge (Original post)

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,896 posts)
16. They want him on a gurney w a team around him, paddles in hand, for when the Peace Prize is announced on Friday. . . .nt
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 10:27 AM
Oct 9

mwb970

(12,000 posts)
22. It feels like the Blessed Day is approaching at last.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:15 PM
Oct 9

And no, I am not talking about ther Rapture.

EarthFirst

(3,880 posts)
23. They were so impressed by his high level of health in April...
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:18 PM
Oct 9

…that they asked him to show up so that they could get a baseline for Hegseth’s new military fitness standard…

Figarosmom

(9,080 posts)
24. This will just be another bought doctor
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:44 PM
Oct 9

Saying he's fine. This is going to be used to "dispel" rumors that he is on poor health and at deaths door.

The way his eyes are all puffy it looks like he's in heart failure. One more greasy burger sir for your health.😊

usaf-vet

(7,721 posts)
27. And the American people can look forward to ANOTHER LYING REPORT from the doctors.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:58 PM
Oct 9

It's plain and simply bulls*it!

The Madcap

(1,557 posts)
32. When he finally does go to see Satan
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 01:17 PM
Oct 9

They'll just make him into an A.I. figure and keep on putting him on the screen. With ripped biceps of course and 30 years subtracted from his appearance.

3Hotdogs

(14,750 posts)
28. Come on, Jesus. Do it for me and I'l stop making fun of your inability to manage money
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:58 PM
Oct 9

Last edited Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:00 PM - Edit history (1)

and always asking for more.

CTyankee

(67,444 posts)
36. "stop by"?
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 04:42 PM
Oct 9

That's an odd way to describe a visit to the hospital.

She's downplaying what's going on that's not right with tsf.

This whole thing smells...

Aussie105

(7,335 posts)
37. Decomposing before our eyes.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 05:01 PM
Oct 9

This sad and worn out sack of humanity is in dire straights, but the truth will be hidden at all costs.
The cult without its cult leader would disintegrate.

Death in the elderly is often caused by a combination of ailments, each of which by themselves in a younger person would be treatable.
Enlarged heart, partial kidney failure, hardening of the arteries, long term dementia - a lethal combination in the elderly.

Sad, but you must remember how he has negatively affected the lives of many, even led them indirectly to their deaths, how he has broken the rules of morality and the laws of the land, and any sadness will be but a fleeting feeling.

Of course true MAGAts will be in sackcloth and ashes, and cry tears of despair.
The rest of us will be too busy trying to repair the damage to care too much.



LetMyPeopleVote

(171,980 posts)
38. trump is NOT well and needs more testing
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 05:27 PM
Oct 9

"Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months"

If it's every three months, it's not 'yearly'... and it's a sign his doctors are making sure his health gets monitored
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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