U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
After bruises and makeup popped up on President Donald Trump's hand again, questions resurfaced about his advanced age and concerns over his mental acuity.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday in an exclusive, that Trump revealed he hated the compression socks that would help fix his cankles problem and he really hates that he agreed to do an MRI sparking conversations about why a doctor would order such a thing.
“In retrospect, it’s too bad I took it because it gave them a little ammunition,” Trump said.
He revealed that the MRI wasn't of his brain, but of his abdominal area and his heart. He also said it wasn't an MRI at all, but a CT scan.
“It was less than that. It was a scan," Trump said.
“I would have been a lot better off if they didn’t, because the fact that I took it said, ‘Oh gee, is something wrong?’ Well, nothing’s wrong," Trump claimed.
The White House, at the time, called the scan “advanced imaging."
Trump, the oldest president in U.S. history, is showing his age in both public and private, those close to him told The Journal.
The Republican has a history of medical records that prompted experts to scoff. One doctor gave him a diagnosis of "bone spurs" when his draft number came up for the Vietnam War. The daughter of the doctor later said that her father did it as a favor to Trump's father.
As Trump entered the 2016 presidential race, he had his personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, pen a letter claiming his patient had “astonishingly excellent” laboratory test results with other tests showing “only positive results."
Bornstein later said that "there's nothing to share" on a regular basis about a president's health.
"Ronald Reagan had pre-senile dementia. I mean, seriously, did they share that one with you, or did Nancy just cover it up?" the doctor questioned in interview with STAT.
In another incident, Trump hid that he had COVID-19 and was so bad he was placed on supplemental oxygen. Former chief of staff Mark Meadows said that he was “consumed with fear that Trump might die.”
At least twice in the last few months, Trump appeared to have dozed off in public meetings when others were talking.
"Aides, donors and friends say they often have to speak loudly in meetings with the president because he strains to hear," The Journal continued. "Aside from golf, Trump doesn’t get regular exercise, and he is known to consume a diet heavy on salty and fatty foods, such as hamburgers and french fries."
Trump's records show he takes rosuvastatin and ezetimibe for cholesterol and uses mometasone cream for a skin condition. The cream is typically used for eczema. He takes the aspirin for “cardiac prevention" his records show.
Trump claimed he takes high doses of aspirin and that's why his hands bruise so easily. While doctors have told him to take less, he refused out of "superstition."
“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump said. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”
The normal low dosage aspirin is about 81 milligrams, but Trump takes 325 milligrams per day. That's what so consistently causes his bruising, Trump claims. Still, he puts makeup on it to keep the bruises secret.
The CT scan, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella said, was “to definitively rule out any cardiovascular issues” and revealed no abnormalities.
Trump's physical signs of aging are so severe that Attorney General Pam Bondi "nicked" his delicate skin "with her ring while giving him a high-five at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee."
Trump also doesn't sleep well, sending aides messages "at 2 a.m. or later," the report said.
All of this comes after Trump spent years bashing former President Joe Biden as too old, feeble and "sleepy" to be president.
Trump swears he never fell asleep during the meetings, he was just resting his eyes.
“I’ll just close. It’s very relaxing to me,” Trump told the Journal, describing shutting his eyes. “Sometimes they’ll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they’ll catch me with the blink.”
Accusations he can't hear are false too, he said he only struggles "sometimes" because "there’s a lot of people talking.”
In the end, his health is perfect, he claims.
“Genetics are very important,” he said. “And I have very good genetics.”