President Donald Trump said in an interview published Jan. 1 that he’s healthy.
“In retrospect, it’s too bad I took it because it gave them a little ammunition,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal, referring to the scan he underwent in October 2025.
“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,” he said.
Trump, 79, is the second-oldest U.S. president in office—after Joe Biden, who was 82 years old when he left office in January 2025.
Trump was examined at Walter Reed Medical Center on Oct. 10, 2025. The exam included advanced medical imaging, the president said afterwards. He later clarified to the Journal that he actually received a computed tomography (CT) scan, not an MRI....