Who conducted Donald Trump's 2024 or 2025 physical exam and is the full report publicly available?
Executive summary
The 2025 annual physical of President Donald J. Trump was performed and supervised by White House physician Dr. Sean P. Barbabella at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on April 11, 2025, according to the memo released by the White House and reporting from major outlets [1] [2] [3]. The White House published a physician’s memorandum summarizing the examination and key findings, but it did not release the full underlying medical records, raw imaging, or all specialist reports to the public [4] [5] [6].
1. Who performed the exam and what are his credentials
The publicly identified clinician who performed and supervised the April 11, 2025, physical is Dr. Sean Barbabella, the White House physician, who conducted the evaluation at Walter Reed and signed the memo summarizing results [1] [3]; outlets note he is a Navy physician with experience in emergency and tactical medicine and who had run a naval health clinic before assuming the White House role [2].
2. When and where the exam took place
The exam occurred at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on April 11, 2025, as described in the White House memorandum and in contemporaneous reporting that cited the facility and date [3] [1].
3. What the White House released publicly
The administration released a memorandum from the White House physician that summarizes the exam’s findings — specific system checks, lab and diagnostic testing results, and the physician’s overall assessment that the president is “fully fit” to serve — and cites particular items such as a July 2024 colonoscopy showing diverticulosis and a benign polyp and normal carotid ultrasound results [4] [2] [7]. Media outlets republished or analyzed the memo’s contents, and the White House also later issued summaries about advanced imaging such as an October MRI described as “standard for an executive physical,” though the public documents were summaries rather than complete raw data [6] [8] [7].
4. Is the full report publicly available?
No public source in the assembled reporting indicates that the administration released full, detailed medical records, complete specialist reports, raw imaging files, or the full set of laboratory data; what was released is a physician’s memorandum summarizing the exam and select findings [4] [5]. Coverage repeatedly distinguishes the White House summary from comprehensive medical records and notes that the White House chose to publish a memo rather than an exhaustive medical file [5] [6].
5. Context, competing narratives, and incentives to control information
The release fits a familiar pattern in presidential health disclosures: a White House physician’s summary is presented as sufficient to reassure the public while withholding underlying records that clinicians and some public-health advocates often point to as more informative, a choice critics say limits independent review [9] [10]. Supporters highlight the memo’s conclusion that the president is “fully fit” and cite the normal results reported across multiple systems, including specialty consults and imaging, to argue transparency; skeptics counter that summaries cannot substitute for full records or independent evaluation, and they point to the president’s prior secrecy about campaign-era medical details as part of a broader context of selective disclosure [2] [9] [11].
6. Bottom line
The 2025 physical exam was conducted and the results summarized by White House physician Dr. Sean Barbabella at Walter Reed, and the White House released a physician’s memorandum detailing key findings [1] [3] [4]. However, the assembled reporting shows no evidence that the full medical report — meaning unredacted records, raw imaging files, full specialist reports, and complete lab data — has been made publicly available; the public record consists of the physician’s summary and selective disclosures about particular tests [4] [5] [6].