Physician flags warning signs in Trump's 'incomplete' physical exam: 'Not acceptable'
A physician flagged multiple warning signs in President Donald Trump's latest semi-annual physical exam on Tuesday. Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, a former White House physician and author of "Transforming Presidential Healthcare," joined CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" to discuss the results of Trump's latest physical. Trump claimed on Truth Social that his exam went "perfectly," but Kuhlman noted several aspects that needed further attention. Trump's exam happened at a time when questions about his health are continuing to swirl. The president has been seen sleeping in meetings, walking around the White House grounds with a significantly bruised hand, and displaying his swollen ankles on more than one occasion. "One of the things that has concerned me about the White House physician, both the current one and under the previous president, is that sometimes they list some medications that the president is taking, but not all of them," Kuhlman said. "Another one is that sometimes they don't give tests to the president, perhaps because they don't want the results to be known."Kuhlman added that there are still several pieces of information missing from Trump's exam, which he described as "incomplete.""Well, I think that the information, if we say it nicely, is incomplete," he said. "What they should address to an 80-year-old are the big three. Advanced age is the number one risk factor for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease. So for an 80-year-old, it is not acceptable to say, 'Here's a blood pressure; here's an EKG.' They should be assessing his cardiac function." "For example, we see that he walks up long stairs on Air Force One. That's commendable," he continued. "Or we see that he walks across the south lawn to the helicopter again."Kuhlman added that the White House physicians should be doing more "objective testing" of Trump, based on the results Kuhlman saw. "They should do objective testing like a treadmill, like a stress test," he said. "Cardiac imaging of the heart, the coronary arteries, the calcium score ultrasound of the valves, and not just say 'normal,' but they should say, 'Here's the ejection fraction, here's the function of the four valves. And they are not even listing the different tests that he's had."
