Questions about President Donald Trump’s health and fitness have gotten urgent as he nears his 80th birthday, and Americans are increasingly concerned that he might not be up to the task.
The 79-year-old president went Tuesday to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for his third checkup in 13 months, sparking new speculation about his health, and CNN’s Harry Enten presented polling data that shows those concerns are widespread.
“I think the American people are having increasing concerns about the president’s physical health, and these are just the numbers because we’re just running the numbers here,” Enten said. “You could see it right here, say Trump’s physical health to be president is good enough. You go back to 2023, it was 64 percent, 2025, 54 percent, within the last month, look at this, down to just 44 percent of Americans who say that Trump’s physical health is good enough to be president.”
“It has been on a steady decline,” Enten added. “The American people are viewing with their eyes and what they’re viewing they are not pleased with, and as you can see here, for the first time ever this year, less than 50 percent of Americans actually say that Trump’s physical health is good enough to be president.”
Other presidents have been older than 70 while serving, and Enten compared public perception of Trump’s fitness with those chief executives.
“Other presidents in advanced age, why don’t we look at those presidents who are over the age of 70?” he said. “Okay, you can see it right here, okay, highest share, I took the highest share of any poll for either of these, any of these presidents saying not good enough to be president. Now, the majority of Americans say that Trump’s physical health is not good enough to be president, 55 percent. That’s not as high as Joe Biden’s was back in 2024, with 69 percent, but it’s a whole heck of a lot higher than Ronald Reagan’s was back in 1987, when it was 38 percent.”
“Of course, there were massive issues about about Reagan’s mental and physical health back then, so at this point, what you’re seeing here is Donald Trump, for the first time ever this year, the clear majority of Americans saying that his physical health is not good enough to be president,” he added. “It’s not Biden’s levels, but it far exceeds Ronald Reagan’s level.”
Two-thirds of Americans support age limits for presidents at 80 years old, and many would prefer that to be even lower, Enten said.
“The bottom line is this: Americans are increasingly concerned about Trump’s physical health, and when you put it together with Biden, what they simply want is they want age limits,” Enten said. “Going to be very interesting to watch the next presidential campaign, because now we’ve had two consecutive presidents by the end of next month who they’ve had presidents, at least 80 or north. Americans may want to choose someone actually younger for a change.”
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