President Donald Trump has completed his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md.
“I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!” the president said on his TruthSocial account on Friday before his physical, The Associated Press reported.
It is unknown how long the president took for his exam because he did not talk to reporters before or after, but altogether, he was at the center for more than five hours before boarding Air Force One and heading to his home in Florida.
Wire reports indicated that the president said the exam went well and that his doctors will release the results on Sunday.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke to reporters at the White House as the exam was ongoing and informed them that Trump was undergoing his “routine and long-scheduled physical.” She said that a “readout from the White House physician” would be released “as soon as we possibly can” and that it would be comprehensive.
“I can confirm the president is in very good shape,” she said.
The president had a busy week before heading for his annual exam, ordering a probe into two people from his first administration who he believes were leaders of the “resistance.”
Trump revoked the security clearances of former CISA Director Chris Krebs and former DHS official Miles Taylor on Wednesday, while also ordering investigations into their work during his first term.
As part of a series of executive orders and directives signed in the Oval Office, Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum concerning Krebs, stating that it “addresses his access to existing government clearances.”
White House staff secretary Will Scharf explained that the memorandum instructs the Department of Justice (DOJ) and “other aspects” of the federal government “to investigate some of the malign acts” Krebs may have participated in while serving as CISA director.
“This is a man who weaponized his position against free speech in the election context, in the context of COVID-19,” Scharf said. “This is another, similar Presidential Memorandum to the one you just signed. It addresses his access to government existing clearances he might have, and further instructs your Department of Justice, other aspects of your government, to investigate some of the malign acts that he participated in while he was still head of CISA.”
Krebs became a controversial figure after the 2020 presidential election when he dismissed allegations of fraud and irregularities, insisting that the election was “the most secure in American history,” despite widespread calls for a thorough investigation after a number of anomalies were identified.
Ultimately, Trump fired him for publicly downplaying the concerns surrounding the election. The president described the dismissal as a critical step toward restoring accountability in the federal government, denouncing Krebs as a “fraud” and a “disgrace.”
“I don’t know that I met him. I’m sure I met him, but I didn’t know him, and he came out right after the election — which was a rigged election, a badly rigged election. We did phenomenally in that election,” the president said.
A fact sheet issued by the White House explained that the Presidential Memorandum “directs the head of every federal agency to immediately revoke any active security clearance held by Krebs.” In addition, agencies were also directed to suspend “any active security clearance held by individuals and entities associated with Krebs, including SentinelOne, pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with national interest.”
The order also directs the DOJ to investigate Krebs and Taylor, the latter of whom had publicly boasted about leading “the resistance” during the president’s first term.
For Taylor, the order specifically mentions any security clearances granted to individuals at the University of Pennsylvania, where Taylor is a lecturer, “pending a review of whether such clearances align with the national interest.”