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American physician, politician, and naval officer (born 1967)
Photographs and medical statements show Donald Trump was grazed in the upper right ear by a projectile at a July 13, 2024 rally and campaign doctors described a “2 cm-wide” wound down to cartilage wit...
President Donald Trump has publicly said he “aced” a cognitive test and his White House doctors have reported he was given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) at least in 2018 and again as part o...
The available reporting does not show a clear, documented instance in which "President Trump's doctor quit because he refused to sign off on Trump's health report." Coverage identifies multiple physic...
Available reporting shows conflicting accounts about whether former President Donald Trump sustained an ear injury during an assassination attempt: some investigative analyses and congressional report...
Medical accounts from Trump’s campaign and reporting say a bullet grazed or pierced the upper part of his right ear, caused a roughly two-centimeter wound with heavy bleeding and swelling, and require...
Dr. Harold Bornstein, Donald Trump’s private physician until 2015, later said he did not author the effusive 2015 health letter that declared Trump in “astonishingly excellent” health and that Trump d...
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 ...
Only a narrow set of cognitive-screening results have been publicly reported for a U.S. president before 2025: President Donald Trump’s 2018 Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score — reported as 30...
More than 200 mental-health professionals publicly signed an open letter (run as a New York Times ad in October 2024) calling Donald Trump “grossly unfit for leadership,” saying he shows “malignant na...
Public evidence about Donald Trump’s cognitive assessments comprises a small set of official disclosures and media reporting: a 2018 Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) reportedly scored 30/30 (annou...
The public record contains no independently verifiable, full hospital medical files proving Donald Trump suffered a specific ear wound that can be examined by journalists or the public; instead, the T...
Photos and videos from the immediate aftermath of the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt do show Donald Trump bleeding and later wearing a bandage on his right ear; campaign and media releases, eyewi...
Multiple former Trump aides and allies have offered divergent accounts about Donald Trump’s cognitive sharpness; , while allies and a former White House doctor defend his mental acuity. Reporting acro...
There is no clear, contemporaneous confirmation in the provided reporting that “Trump’s doctor quit this week and was replaced”; the available sources discuss long-running questions about President Tr...
Fact‑checking organizations quickly targeted viral claims that former president Donald Trump’s ear showed “no damage” after the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt, concluding that many images present...
Donald Trump is consistently reported to be a , with some reports noting as little as three to four hours during busy periods and claims in his own writings and by associates that he functions on roug...
Contemporary mainstream reporting and public records show that former President Donald Trump survived two high-profile assassination attempts in 2024 — a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania where he wa...
Donald Trump publicly announced that he had taken the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) on , speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, claiming a perfect result and challenging Democratic members...
Multiple physicians have publicly opined on President Trump’s health: the administration’s own physician, Capt. Sean P. Barbabella, and his predecessors Drs. Ronny Jackson and Harold Bornstein have is...
Hospital treatment notes and a campaign-released letter by Rep. Ronny Jackson describe the injury as a 2-centimeter-wide wound to the upper right ear that extended to the ear’s cartilaginous surface, ...