What did Donald Trump's 2024 or 2025 medical evaluation report list as his age and vital signs?
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Executive summary
Donald Trump’s White House physician listed his age at 78 (78 years, 10 months at the time of the April 2025 exam) and reported specific vital signs: height 75 inches, weight 224 pounds, blood pressure 128/74 mmHg, resting heart rate 62 beats per minute, and temperature 98.6°F, as summarized in the physician’s memorandum and contemporary reporting [1] [2] [3]. Those figures were presented as part of an April 11, 2025 comprehensive exam at Walter Reed and repeated in multiple media accounts [2] [4] [5].
1. The official record: age and headline vitals from the White House memo
The physician’s memorandum for President Trump’s April 11, 2025 annual physical states the president’s age at the time of the exam—78 years and roughly 10 months—and lists the key “vital statistics” that were released publicly: height 75 inches (6'3"), weight 224 pounds, blood pressure 128/74 mmHg, resting heart rate 62 bpm, and an oral temperature of 98.6°F; the memo characterized him as “in excellent health” [2] [1].
2. How the press reported the same numbers and emphasized fitness
News outlets that covered the White House memo echoed those numbers nearly verbatim: Time, Stat News, AP and other outlets summarized the exam and highlighted the vitals alongside ancillary findings such as a perfect 30/30 MoCA score and normal imaging; Time and Stat News framed the vitals within a broader “clean bill of health” narrative [6] [4] [7]. Local and specialist outlets likewise published the height, weight, blood pressure, pulse and temperature as the chief measurable data points from the report [1] [5].
3. Context and qualifying details reported alongside the vitals
The memo and subsequent reporting did not present the vitals in isolation: they were accompanied by diagnostic imaging results (preventive cardiac and abdominal MRIs described as “perfectly normal”), a July 2024 colonoscopy that found diverticulosis and a benign polyp, and notation of right-ear scarring from a July 2024 assassination attempt; the physician also emphasized an “active lifestyle” as contributing to the president’s wellbeing [7] [2] [4] [6]. Media pieces stressed that the vitals reflect a snapshot during a supervised exam and serve as baseline metrics rather than prognostic guarantees [3].
4. Questions, limitations, and competing interpretations
Skeptics and some medical observers have cautioned that publicly released summaries omit full underlying data and longitudinal trend lines—criticism that has trailed Trump’s approach to medical transparency since his 2024 campaign—and that vitals at a single exam cannot fully resolve longer-term questions about cognitive or cardiovascular trajectory; Time and other outlets noted that calls for fuller records persisted after the memo’s release [3] [6]. Additionally, independent experts interviewed in 2024 and summarized by the Washington Post and Wikipedia raised concerns about genetic risk factors for dementia and called for fuller disclosure, a point the official memo did not address [8].
5. Bottom line for the record-seeker
For those seeking the concrete, published numbers: the April 2025 White House medical memorandum and corroborating press accounts list President Trump’s age at 78 (about 78 years, 10 months at the exam) and vital signs as height 75 inches, weight 224 pounds, blood pressure 128/74 mmHg, resting heart rate 62 bpm, and temperature 98.6°F [2] [1] [5]. Reporting also notes additional exam findings and the administration’s portrayal of the results as indicative of “excellent” health, while critics continue to call for more complete records and longitudinal transparency [2] [3].