Donald Trump's recent health report is 'too good to be true', a doctor has claimed, after his administration touted his seemingly clean bill of health19:33, 01 Jun 2026Updated 20:01, 01 Jun 2026A vascular surgeon has said Donald Trump’s recent medical examination report is "too good to be true".‌The 79-year-old president said his six-month health check-up at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last Tuesday showed "everything checked out PERFECTLY".‌The White House waited longer than usual to publish the results, releasing them on Friday. US Navy Captain Sean Barbabella, Trump's physician, wrote in a memo on Tuesday that the president "remains in excellent health" and has "strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and overall physical function".‌Barbabella’s memo cited Trump’s "slight lower leg swelling… with improvement from last year" and continued hand bruising, which was described as "common", "benign" and "consistent with minor soft tissue irritation related to frequent handshaking in the setting of aspirin use for cardiovascular prevention".But several high-profile doctors have expressed scepticism about the findings. "That report is almost too good to be true for somebody of his age," Texas vascular surgeon William Shutze told the Wall Street Journal. "This seems to be a filtered narrative."Speaking about his cholesterol levels, with HDL (good cholesterol) cited at 70 mg/dL and LDL (bad cholesterol) at 53 mg/dL, Georgia vascular surgeon Dr Daniel Torrent told the Journal those were pretty much "the best cholesterol numbers you’ll see" and that medication alone does not usual achieve such results.‌Doctors also pointed to the fact that the memo did not address the reason for skin treatment on the president’s neck in March and did not indicate that he had undergone another magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, as he did in OctoberCNN medical analyst Jonathan Reiner, who served as cardiologist for the late Vice President Dick Cheney, questioned the need for another coronary artery CT on Trump, as he was last scanned in October."We don’t typically scan patients 6 months later unless we are concerned about a finding on the initial scan. What prompted the repeat CT?" he wrote on X on Saturday.‌Doctors would also want to see a calcium score, a description of any plaque in the arteries and a CAD-RADS score to assess the president's heart health, The Wall Street Journal reported."If I were creating a report to send to another physician, I would have mentioned a little bit more about the carotid ultrasound," Shutze told the outlet. "What amount of plaque there is going to be - because almost all of us are going to have some buildup there."It comes after a year of public attention on Trump's apparently minor health issues, including images in July 2025 showing swollen ankles and a bruised hand concealed with makeup, as well as more recent photographs showing a blotchy neck rash.Article continues belowWhite House physician Sean Barbabella said in March that Trump was using a common cream as "a preventative skin treatment" to address the neck rash, but did not give details of the condition being treated.