47⬅ Donald Trump: Report Irregularities / Misdiagnoses

President Trump's May 2026 medical report contains many irregularities, organized here into familiar information-corrupting buckets that impede efforts to understand his health:

• MORE Omissions ... of multiple test results
• MORE Ignorings ... of multiple clinical problems
• MORE Alterations ... of normal test ranges
• MORE Decoy ... with irrelevant material
• MORE Ambiguities ... of dates and phrasing
• SEE BELOW Misdiagnoses ... and incomplete diagnoses
• MORE Fawning ... including previous reports

However, it must be granted that the presidential physician during Trump's second term has twice accomplished something that had not been previously done since January 2018: release in-depth preventive medical assessments of the president. After the January 2018 physical, all subsequent preventive medical assessments of Trump — which excludes his covid bout — were one-page summaries that left many key parameters unspecified.

Comment: The mere existence of these more detailed assessments gives confidence that the system is operating and suggests the president is receiving attentive and principled medical care, despite what the paper trail might indicate. And so, in several places, I do not accept the possibility that Trump has incompetent doctors.
 
Although the irregularities in the reports raise many questions — especially the changed normal ranges MORE — an outsider finds many obstacles to understanding their origin and significance. Too much of the relevant information is available only to insiders. Genuinely innocent reasons could have propelled some of the irregularities into the report, so full judgment must await access to the inside information.

As mentioned on many other pages, two diagnoses offered in Donald Trump's 2025-2026 medical reports are demonstrably erroneous.

Let me qualify that. They are not necessarily wholly wrong, because the disease processes of these diagnoses could indeed be at work in Trump's body. However, they are wrong in the sense that they are inadequate to fully explain what the report seeks to explain by them.

To maintain that there are no additional explanations is, to say the least, irregular.

The diagnoses are:

• Bruising is due to "frequent handshaking in the setting of aspirin use" (May 2026) MORE
• Bruising is due to "frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin" (July 2025) MORE

  Recent photos, showing forearm bruising, and older photos showing facial bruising, have punctured these bruising diagnoses. Moreover, the reports mis-stated the duration of the bruising... by at least three years. MORE

• Swollen legs are due to "chronic venous insufficiency" (July 2025) MORE

  Since its one mention in July 2025, this diagnosis has not been mentioned again in any subsequent official public reports. Its inadequacies are discussed at length elsewhere. MORE

Speculation

My sense is that Trump's physicians began pursuing the amyloidosis possibility just after July 2025, because the July statement was quite definite about the absence of heart failure, renal disease, or systemic disease (though it did not define "systemic disease").

Additional evidence for this hypothesis exists. It is thin, but telling: October 2025 saw the introduction of "advanced imaging" (undefined) and the introduction of the AI-EKG into Trump's reports. This indicates his medical team had developed concerns sufficient to drive Trump into tests having non-zero risk and also into experimental diagnostics (the AI-EKG MORE).

In short, it was the start of their message shifting from something like the leg swelling is just vein disease to a message ultimately like we did coronary angiography, pulmonary angiography, and thought hard about cardiac MRI so as "to definitively rule out any cardiovascular issues" 1.