What medical records or doctor statements are publicly available about Trump's health?
Executive summary
The publicly available medical information about Donald J. Trump consists mainly of a White House physician’s memorandum summarizing the April 2025 annual physical, targeted statements from Trump and his doctors about specific tests, campaign claims, and ongoing legal requests that seek broader medical and psychological records; independent demands for transparency from hundreds of clinicians and media coverage fill the gaps around what remains private [1] [2] [3] [4]. Major outstanding constraints are legal and consent requirements: comprehensive medical files can only be released with the president’s consent or compelled by a court in litigation, which is why discovery demands in lawsuits (not yet resolved in public reporting) are central to whether fuller records will become public [5] [6] [7].
1. What has been released officially: the White House physician’s memo and its takeaways
The clearest public document is a memorandum from the White House physician dated April 13, 2025, which states that President Trump underwent a comprehensive annual physical at Walter Reed and that the president “has consented to release the physical exam findings to the public,” summarizing diagnoses (well-controlled hypercholesterolemia, seasonal allergies, prior COVID-19, skin conditions, diverticulosis, benign polyp) and concluding he “remains in excellent health” with robust cardiac, pulmonary and neurological function [8] [1].
2. Specific test results and cognitive screening that have been disclosed
The physician’s release and subsequent reporting note specific testing: the memo reports that the president scored 30 out of 30 on a Montreal Cognitive Assessment and that diagnostic and laboratory tests plus specialty consultations were performed in line with standard preventive recommendations, which the memo frames as evidence of strong physical and cognitive function [1] [9].
3. Conflicting descriptions about imaging and daily medications
Public statements contain some inconsistencies: the president earlier said he had an MRI but later told the Wall Street Journal he received a CT scan during the October exam, and his White House physician and the president have offered differing framings about what was disclosed and by whom; the White House press secretary has said the administration’s doctors had always maintained “advanced imaging” was performed and that the president himself provided additional detail [2] [10] [11]. Reporting also notes Trump’s admission he takes a long-standing high dose of aspirin that his doctors reportedly urged him to reduce, and he has attributed easy bruising to frequent handshakes and aspirin use [2] [11] [10].
4. Campaign claims and partisan framing of the disclosures
The campaign has repeatedly framed the physician updates and selective reports as adequate proof of fitness, citing voluntary releases and favorable statements from Dr. Ronny Jackson and others and calling Trump “in perfect and excellent health” while using selective language to contrast his stamina with rivals [3]. Independent media outlets and neutral summaries, however, emphasize that those campaign statements are partisan claims layered atop the official memo and do not equate to releasing full medical records [9] [11].
5. What has not been publicly released and why—legal fights and professional demands
Despite the White House memo and selective physician statements, Trump’s full medical and psychological records remain private; legal discovery requests filed by the Pulitzer Prize Board in response to a defamation suit seek those comprehensive records and could force a disclosure if a court orders it, a prospect further reported in several outlets and framed as a major avenue by which fuller records might become public [6] [7]. Independent calls for transparency—more than 200 to 400 clinicians publicly urged him to release his records during the campaign season—underscore professional concern but do not change legal privacy rules that require the president’s consent or judicial compulsion for full release [4] [12] [5].
6. Competing narratives and limits of available reporting
The public record therefore combines an official physician memorandum asserting consent to release the physical-exam summary and endorsing excellent health, selective media interviews and campaign proclamations, and active legal efforts to obtain broader files; reporting documents the contents of the memo, cognitive test score, imaging dispute, and aspirin/bruising issue, but it does not show full medical charts, psychotherapy notes, or complete prescription histories without either the president’s voluntary release or a judge’s order—facts the sources explicitly note [1] [2] [5] [6].