Hey,
@wizer, try this on for size. (I can already her the denials and excuses)
In July 2025,
, the
, stated that Trump had been diagnosed with
. Trump's physician, Dr. Barbabella, wrote in a statement that bruising on Trump's right hand was attributed to his use of
and frequent hand-shaking.
It was later noted, however, that vascular tests confirmed that Trump in fact had swelling in his legs at the time of his diagnosis.
Large bruises continued to appear on Trump's hands in August 2025.
On August 27, 2025, Vice President
stated that he was ready to become president; this led to speculation that Trump was seriously ill or dead.
That day, he was seen leaving for golf,
but a photo which Trump shared of himself on August 31 was determined to have potentially been taken on August 23, fueling further speculation of continuing health concerns.
Increased discussion about his mental health occurred in August.
A photograph of Trump leaving the White House on September 1 confirmed he was still alive, but led to more speculation about his health due to seeming changes in his appearance.
Theories alleging that Trump suffered an ischemic
grew following the photos' release; Trump disputed suggestions that he suffered ill health, asserting that he "never felt better in [his] life" in an all-caps
post.
On September 11, during a
commemoration at
, the right side of Trump's face was said to droop down heavily, once again sparking concerns of a stroke.
On taking the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
We have a great group of people, which
don't. They have
— a low IQ person. They have, uh...
is low IQ. You give her an IQ test... have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. I took... Those are very hard, uh... They're really aptitude test, I guess, in a certain way, but they're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don't think Jasmine... The first couple questions are easy — a
, an
, a
, you know.
When you get up to five or six, and then when you get up to ten, and twenty, and twenty-five — they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions."
Trump aboard
October 27, 2025
On October 10, Trump received another visit to Walter Reed. Leavitt described the visit as a "routine yearly checkup", despite it being Trump's second at the facility in a six-month-period.
Dr. Barbabella did not elaborate on the imaging or "preventive assessments" that he performed, but claimed added that Trump's laboratory results were "exceptional," and that his cardiac age is "approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age."
On October 27, Trump told reporters that he had undergone an undisclosed
scan during a previous visit to Walter Reed, which, despite his claim that it gave "some of the best reports for the age" and "some of the best reports they've ever seen", led to further speculation about his health due to the undisclosed nature of why he had the procedure done.
Trump also bragged about his taking of the MoCA test, again misidentifying the
for detecting
as a "very hard [...] IQ test" and claiming that younger Democratic political opponents do not have the intelligence to pass it.
Whether a third MoCA test was conducted during the October visit or if Trump was referring to his April 2025 and/or January 2018 assessments was not clarified.
On October 28, new concerns about Trump's mental state emerged when a video emerged of him wandering off while walking alongside
, the first female Prime Minister of Japan, while at
in
.
On November 2,
alleged that "the first signs of the battle over Trump’s succession" were now showing, with
even stating Trump's Vice President J.D. Vance will be "President JD Vance" by the time of the 2028 U.S. Presidential election, describing "President JD Vance or Marco Rubio" as the current frontrunners to run for the Republican nomination in 2028.
