President Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, has a scheduled visit at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday for a physical.
Mr. Trump will turn 80 on June 14. His health has been a subject of public scrutiny, particularly as he has been seen with visible bruises on his hands, which he covers with makeup.
White House officials said the bruises are caused by handshakes.
Mr. Trump has also been observed with swelling in his legs, which the president’s doctors and aides said was a result of chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that occurs when veins have trouble moving blood back to the heart.
He also had a red rash on his neck, and his physician, Dr. Sean P. Barbabella, said Mr. Trump was using a cream as a preventive treatment. Dr. Barbabella has not said what the skin condition was or what medication Mr. Trump was taking.
For more than a decade, Mr. Trump, his doctors and his aides have frequently issued terse, vague or rosy statements about the president’s fitness and health conditions.
Karoun Demirjian is a breaking news reporter for The Times.
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