Doctors have claimed that 79-year-old Trump has serious health problems

Donald Trump suffered a stroke several months ago and has been keeping it away from the public, a leading medical expert has suggested.

Bruce Davidson, a professor at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, made the bombshell claim about the 79-year-old president’s health after laying out “lines of evidence supporting it,” as reported by The Daily Beast last year.

“I think his stroke was on the left side of the brain, which controls the right side of the body,” Davidson told biographer Sidney Blumenthal and Princeton historian Sean Willenz on his podcast. Court of History.

“I think stroke six months earlier or more, earlier in 2025,” he continued. “There are videos of him shuffling his feet, which we hadn’t seen before walking that golf course. We saw him holding his right hand over his left. By early 2025, he was slurring words, which he hadn’t done before and which has improved recently.”

Davidson also points to what he describes as “marked episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness,” medically known as hypersomnolence, which are common in stroke patients. Trump is now regularly seen shaking his head at public appearances such as White House events.

He further suggested that footage showing Trump descending the steps of Air Force One while holding a banister with his left hand, despite the president being right-handed, “is consistent with a stroke on the left side of the brain.”

Davidson did not believe what type of stroke the president had suffered, but said that if he is correct in his claim, “he appears to have made a significant recovery.”

For months, there has been speculation about the mental and physical decline of Trump, who is on his way to becoming the oldest president in American history.

The president has frequently appeared in public with large, visible bruises on his arms, which he tries to hide with smears of makeup.

Trump has also taken steps to hide from public view his swollen cankles, a symptom of the medical condition chronic venous insufficiency, which the White House admitted to the president in July 2024.

Concerns were further raised after Trump appeared at an event marking the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks with his face tilted to one side. Many social media users speculated at the time that the appearance could be a sign of a stroke, although no diagnosis has been confirmed.

In a candid interview with The Wall Street Journal published this month, Trump acknowledged several health issues and treatments, including briefly wearing compression stockings to help manage swelling in his legs.

He also shockingly admitted to taking more aspirin than doctors recommended for “heart prevention.” Trump and the White House have repeatedly attributed the 79-year-old’s unsightly hand injuries to his daily aspirin use, including his frequent handshakes.

Elsewhere during his podcast appearance, Davidson suggested that Trump’s erratic and aggressive governing style during his second term may also be consistent with post-stroke behavioral changes.

“It’s a very serious, worrisome, life-threatening, disturbing, scary event, and people react in different ways,” Davidson said. “Some people respond with humility and gratitude. Others are excited – ‘I was on the cliff of death, and now I’m back.’ And some think, ‘This was my chance to die, and I didn’t – so now I’m going to do everything I want to do, because the next one might be fatal.’

In response, White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt told The Daily Beast: “The president’s physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, has made clear time and time again — and the American people have seen with their own eyes every day — that President Trump is in excellent overall health.”

“President Trump’s tireless work ethic, unparalleled energy, and historic reach we witnessed over the past four years when the failed legacy media deliberately covered up Joe Biden’s severe mental and physical decline from the American public,” she continued. “Now that President Trump is pushing these fake and desperate stories, Americans’ trust in the media has fallen to a new all-time low.”