# What is Trump's current health? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 9, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538 "2020-10-09T02:26:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/101 "2025-12-07T17:50:39Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > When are we going to hear some accurate details of what exactly has been going on with Trump’s health? > > - A whistleblower who talks to a newspaper (and has the receipts)? I’m thinking a modern day Deep Throat > - When a D is in the Whitehouse? > - Congressional subpoena? > - After Trump’s death and a respectful period? > - Never? I’m voting never. We may get some tidbits but not the full picture ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/102 "2025-12-07T17:52:03Z")
Did “they” ever clarify what was wrong with Woodrow Wilson? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/103 "2025-12-07T18:19:46Z")
Edith Wilson’s memoir was published in 1939…15 years after his death. She outlined the extent of Woodrow Wilson’s stroke, and the doctors advice to “not give him a new anxiety or problem to excite him”. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/104 "2025-12-07T18:28:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > When are we going to hear some accurate details of what exactly has been going on with Trump’s health? When somebody leaks the autopsy results? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/105 "2026-01-03T13:20:02Z")
Trump actually discussed his health in a recent media interview. Again says he “aced” the cognitive test. Wore compression six for a while but stopped because he didn’t like them. Takes more aspirin daily than his doctors recommend because he wants “nice, thin blood pouring into his heart”. Clarified that it was a CT scan, not an MRI scan, to look at his heart. > **[Trump, 79, Launches Desperate Defense After Bombshell Revelations About His...](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-79-launches-desperate-defense-121408980.html)** > > The president says he “ACED” an exam checking for signs of dementia “for the third straight time.” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/106 "2026-01-03T13:32:20Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Again says he “aced” the cognitive test. Sure. If that’s true, it just means he’s a complete and total asshole. Well, we knew that already. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/107 "2026-01-03T13:41:34Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Wore compression six That should be 🙂 “Wore compression sox” ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/108 "2026-01-03T13:41:57Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > When are we going to hear some accurate details of what exactly has been going on with Trump’s health? If you mean an accurate list of diagnoses, it will be in a magisterial prize-winning doorstop biography published, oh, maybe 30 years from now. Whether the U.S. will be a free enough country for it to be published there, I have no idea. But somewhere on earth will still be free enough for it to be published. Suppose I’m wrong and the accurate list leaks tomorrow. Having an accurate list of diagnoses, for a 79 year old man, is not usually going to substantially narrow down that man’s life expectancy much more than comes from just knowing he’s a 79 year old man getting regular medical care in the United States and still able to walk and talk.. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/109 "2026-01-03T13:45:22Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > If that’s true, it just means he’s a complete and total asshole. “No, Donald, you’re not wrong…” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/110 "2026-01-03T16:11:03Z")
I think we’ll never know, HIPPA and all. Maybe Melania will go on a recreational grief tour like Erika Kirk and tell us how hard it was to care for a senile poopy old man, but barring that I think all the lips are as sealed as can be. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/111 "2026-01-03T16:13:46Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > HIPPA _ **HIPAA** _. **H** ealth **I** nsurance **P** ortability and **A** ccountability **A** ct. (Sorry, I work in the industry, and this common misspelling grates on me.) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/112 "2026-01-03T17:10:09Z")
> # Is Trump taking too much aspirin? Here’s what experts say > > [Trump takes 325 mg of aspirin daily. What do experts think of that? : Shots - Health News : NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5665112/trump-aspirin-325-81-mg-low-dose-cardiac-stroke-heart-attack-bleeding) My bold in all cases. > … > Experts [recommend](http://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2102137) that these patients take 81 milligrams of aspirin every day to [reduce](https://tools.acc.org/ascvd-risk-estimator-plus/#!/calculate/estimate/) the risk of cardiovascular disease. (The dose [used to be described](https://www.uchealth.org/today/new-guidelines-should-you-take-daily-baby-aspirin-to-prevent-heart-attack-stroke/) as a “baby aspirin,” but aspirin is no longer recommended for [regular use](http://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.3073) in children.) The low dose is often prescribed — rather than Trump’s 325 milligram dose — because **there’s [no benefit](http://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2102137) to taking a higher dose**, according to a large study published in 2021. > > “There’s some evidence that if you’ve already tolerated the higher dose of 325 milligrams, there’s probably very little additional risk to taking that over the 81 milligram dose,” says [Dr. Eleanor Levin](https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/31113), a preventive cardiologist at Stanford Medicine. **“The higher dose is unnecessary, though.”** > > … _But MORE has to be better! It HAS to be the best!!_ * * * Here’s the bad news: Though [safer](https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.14310) than other blood thinners, patients taking the drug — even at low doses — are at an [increased risk](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2791399) of bleeding in the stomach and brain. **But these adverse events are unlikely to cause death.** ☹ * * * No mystery about the backs of his hands: > "As you get in your late 70s and 80s, you get a lot of thinning of the skin, so it’s more delicate. You’ll have patients come in, and **they don’t remember bumping against a table or a chair, and they have bruises all over their arms."** I see this a lot at The Home. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/113 "2026-01-03T18:11:37Z")
Easy bruising? Yeh, I regularly get a small bruise on the inside of my left arm, a few inches up from my hand. Used to bewilder me till I realized that I’d rest boxes and bags there when I was carrying them and that was where the edge or corner hit. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/114 "2026-01-07T22:13:26Z")
FWIW, the 325 mg dose Trump’s taking isn’t necessarily him just snarfing down multiple children’s aspirin, but rather taking one regular old aspirin tablet once a day. As much as it pains me to say it, it’s not as insane as it first sounded when I read about it. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/115 "2026-01-07T22:46:59Z")
As an aside: I always wondered how the 81 mg aspirin dose was determined. Seems weirdly specific – not 79 or 80 or 82 or 83 … but 81. But now I realize that it’s likely a rounding down of 325 mg divided by 4 (81.25 mg). ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/116 "2026-01-07T23:19:11Z")
Thanks for that. I wondered myself. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/117 "2026-01-07T23:21:32Z")
Which begs the question, why 325 mg? Why not 300 or 350 or 333? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/118 "2026-01-08T05:20:19Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Which begs the question, why 325 mg? Apparently, because the old-school apothecary measurement for an aspirin tablet was 5 grains, which converts to 325 mg. > [@](#): > > Aspirin, codeine, and morphine were some of the drugs commonly ordered in grains as opposed to milligrams. Aspirin dosing is rooted in this history. The standard adult aspirin dose was 5 gr, or 325 mg in metric, the dose still used today for analgesia. Low-dose aspirin was one quarter of the standard dose, 1.25 grains, which converted to 81 mg. [This dosing regimen has persisted to modern times](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25330543). > **[The History Behind Aspirin 81 – Clinical Correlations](https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2019/02/22/the-history-behind-aspirin-81/)** ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/119 "2026-05-31T03:44:44Z")
Excellent, per this story. (And monkeys might fly out of my butt.) > **[Trump in ‘excellent health’ after latest checkup, president’s physician says](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-excellent-health-presidents-physican-says-rcna346894)** > > Trump, who will turn 80 in June, is the oldest person to assume the presidency. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/120 "2026-05-31T12:16:30Z")
For more discussion of a Pitly nature on trump’s latest physical exam see here & subsequent: > [@Trump is dying](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2823): > > The media could report on and discuss the findings from Trump’s latest “checkup”, except the medical summary hasn’t been released. After all, how long does it take to announce Trump’s continuing “exceptional” health status, and that taking frequent catnaps in public is an ingenious mechanism to preserve his otherworldly vitality? Hard to believe that his fawning personal doc(s) are actually going to report something negative, however sugar-coated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538.md?page=7)