The president’s socks were stretched to the limit.
President Donald Trump’s swollen ankles were caught on camera as he touched down after a trip to Florida that included a surprise medical visit.
Trump, who turns 80 next month, returned to the White House on Sunday after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort and his Doral Miami golf club.
On Saturday, Trump undertook what the White House press pool called a “scheduled dental appointment” at his local dentist in Florida. The visit was not on his public schedule, however, and fueled speculation over his health.
Trump was photographed with son Donald Jr. on the south lawn of the White House on Sunday, with the president’s thick ankles visible.
After the unexpected stop to check on his dental health, cardiologist and CNN medical analyst Jonathan Reiner pointed out on X that the White House has a dental office on site, where former President Joe Biden had a root canal operation.
“There’s been such lack of candor about the health of the president that even a visit to the dentist raises questions,” Reiner stated, questioning why the president made the visit on a Saturday morning in Florida. He added, “Maybe he just likes this dentist.”
White House spokesperson Davis Ingle has repeatedly told the Daily Beast, “President Trump is the sharpest, most accessible, and energetic president in modern American history.
The president is overdue for his annual physical; his last one was on April 11, 2025, after which it was declared that he was in “excellent health.”
But in the past year, Trump’s physical ailments have been on public display. His continually swollen ankles are a common symptom of chronic venous insufficiency, which he was diagnosed with last July.
The super-sized presidential ankles were on full display in the Oval Office last week as Trump met with King Charles.
Trump told The Wall Street Journal in a January report that he briefly wore compression socks to help treat the ailment, but stopped after a while because he “didn’t like them.”
As well as his ankle issues, the president frequently slathers mismatched concealer on the back of his hands to cover up bruising. He has attributed it to defying doctors’ orders and taking 325 milligrams of aspirin daily, which is four times the dosage generally recommended by physicians.
It’s “good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” he told the Journal in January.
The Daily Beast has vigorously covered the president’s various ailments, which also include his bouts of confusion, his public sleeping fits, his slurred speech, and his surprise neck rash.
Trump’s cognitive skills have also been called into question with increasingly erratic Truth Social posting sprees in the early hours.
Analysis by the Daily Beast revealed that Trump was such a frequent poster last month there were only five days in April when he could have had a full night’s sleep.
Last month, he published 565 Truth Social posts, an average of around 18 a day, regularly posting after midnight.
He is starting May in a similar fashion, with a Sunday night posting spree that included posting an image of himself holding six UNO wildcards bearing the caption, “I have all the cards.”
Trump, Who Turns 80 Next Month, Jokes He Could Leave Office in ‘8 or 9 Years’
The president also told attendees at a small business summit that he’d “aced” three cognitive tests
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Donald Trump joked that he might leave office in “eight or nine years” at a small business summit on Monday, May 4
The president’s second term will end in January 2029, and per the U.S. Constitution, he would not be allowed to run for a third
Trump, who turns 80 on June 14, also told attendees that he’d “aced” three cognitive tests
President Donald Trump joked that he might leave office in “eight or nine years” at a summit on Monday, May 4, before telling attendees about his cognitive test results.
The president, who turns 80 on June 14, was speaking to business leaders in the White House’s East Room about new legislation that would allow businesses to deduct the cost of new facilities from their taxes.
“When I get out of office in, let’s say, eight or nine years from now, I’ll be able to use it. I’ll be able to use it myself,” he joked to laughter from attendees.
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The 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”
Trump’s second term will end in January 2029, and the president said in October, referencing the Constitution, that “it’s pretty clear” he wouldn’t be able to run for a third term.
His comments came shortly after House Speaker Mike Johnson said he didn’t see a way Trump could remain in office beyond his second term.
“It’s been a great run, but I think the president knows, and he and I have talked about, the constrictions of the Constitution, as much as so many of the American people lament that,” he said, per ABC News.
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Elsewhere in Trump’s speech, which was shared on YouTube by the White House, he discussed the cognitive tests he’s taken as part of his annual physicals. He referenced former President Joe Biden, who faced questions regarding his own age and cognitive health during his campaign for a second term.
Biden would have been 82 at the beginning of a second term, but he withdrew from the 2024 presidential election four months before Election Day. His replacement, former Vice President Kamala Harris, lost to Trump.
“Anybody running for president or vice president, should take a cognitive test. And no president has ever taken one except me. I’ve taken three of them, and I’ve aced each one, one in the first administration, two over here,” Trump claimed.
“How do you think Biden would have done?” he said. “I don’t think… he might not have gotten that first question right.”
He added that, while everybody else in the room was “brilliant,” they might all struggle with the tests. “Nobody’s going to get all 30 questions correct, nobody,” he said. “Because when you get to those last questions, they’re pretty hard. You got to be pretty sharp.”
The president shared on Truth Social at the start of the year that he “aced” his latest cognitive exam with a score of 100 percent. “I strongly believe that anyone running for President, or Vice President, should be mandatorily forced to take a strong, meaningful, and proven Cognitive Examination,” he added. “Our great Country cannot be run by ‘STUPID’ or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE! President DJT.”
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Donald Trump’s scathing 4-word comment about King Charles after their private meeting revealed
The meeting between US President Donald Trump and King Charles during last week’s State Visit was full of compliments and jovial laughter between the two.
During their formal goodbye at the White House in Washington D.C. on Friday, Trump said Charles was “the greatest King” and repeatedly called him “fantastic”.
However, their first meeting, over tea at Clarence House in 2019, when Charles was still the Prince of Wales, was very different.
And according to former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, Trump complained afterwards that the conversation had been “terrible”.
According to Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page in her new book, The Queen and Her Presidents, Trump was left “bored” by the then-future King, and said they spoke of “nothing but climate change”.
In a new passage serialised in The Telegraph, she writes: “Never mind that Trump had complained to aides that the then-Prince Charles bored him during their first meeting in 2019.
“Afterward, Trump told Grisham that the conversation had been terrible. ‘Nothing but climate change,’ Trump groused, rolling his eyes. Melania Trump confirmed that with a laugh. ‘Oh, yes, he was very bored,’ she said of her husband. But Trump said he had had a change of heart about Charles since then.”
A State Visit to remember
King Charles and Queen Camilla jetted to the US last week for a whirlwind tour of New York, Washington D.C., and Virginia, with the King continuing to Bermuda alone.
It appeared to be the King’s sternest diplomatic test to date, including a high-stakes address to Congress that earned him numerous standing ovations from US officials.
A senior palace aide said afterwards, “What looked like risk and challenge was also a phenomenal opportunity. One that was grasped in both hands by the King, and we shall leave you to conclude what the outcome of that was.” A parting gift came from Trump, who lifted tariffs on Scottish whisky after an intervention by the Queen and King.
The senior palace aide said about the relationship between the two world figures and their wives: “They get on very well. And it’s not just the King and the president. It’s all four of them with each other. The warmth that you see in public is absolutely the warmth you see in private.”
HELLO!‘s Royal Editor, Emily Nash, joined the King on the visit, and concluded that the King had “reminded us of the royal family’s value on the world stage”.
King Charles’s thoughts on the White House
The King and Queen thought the White House was “amazing”, Trump said while noting they have “seen some very nice places”, in comments made after the visit.
The US president also said Charles and Camilla had been very impressed with the Oval Office during their recent state visit.
Trump revealed the royal couple’s views as he welcomed small business owners to the official residence in Washington DC.
Hosting a small business summit on Monday, Mr Trump said: “I’m thrilled to be with you and welcome you to the most fabulous place, the White House. There is nothing quite like it. People come from all over the world.
“The King and Queen were just here, and they looked and they said, ‘This place is just amazing’.”
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