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 hasconcerned me about the White House physician, both thecurrent one and under theprevious president, is thatsometimes they list somemedications that the presidentis taking, but not all of them," Kuhlman said. "Another one is that sometimesthey don't give tests to thepresident, perhaps because theydon'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 theinformation, if we say it nicely,is incomplete," he said. "What they shouldaddress to an 80-year-old arethe 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 beassessing his cardiac function."
"Forexample, we see that he walks uplong stairs on Air Force One.That's commendable," he continued. "Or we seethat he walks across the southlawn 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 atreadmill, 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 listingthe different tests that he'shad."