U.S. President Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, left the White House on Tuesday (May 26) for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he will undergo his routine annual physical, following a year of public attention on apparently minor health issues.

Trump frequently casts himself as more energetic and fitter than Joe Biden, his Democratic predecessor who left office last year at age 82 after facing questions about his fitness for the job.

Still, recent photographs showing a blotchy neck rash have added to questions about Trump's health, following images in July 2025 of swollen ankles and a bruised hand concealed with makeup.

White House physician Sean Barbabella has said Trump is using a common cream as "a preventative skin treatment" to address the neck rash, but he has not given details of the condition being treated.

After the photographs of the president's legs and hands were published last July, Barbabella said in a letter that the ailments were benign and that there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease.

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Trump leaves White House for annual physical at Walter Reed Medical Center

VIDEO SHOWS: U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP LEAVING WHITE HOUSE FOR WALTER REED NATIONAL MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER

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1. U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE AND ENTERING VEHICLE

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