President Joe Biden will undergo a long-awaited physical exam amid concerns about the 81-year-old’s health and fitness for a second term.
The Biden administration has fielded constant questions over the President would get his annual physical ahead of the election in November.
Biden, the oldest Commander-in-Chief in US history, made the unsheculed trip on Wednesday morning be assessed ahead of his likely rematch with Republican rival Donald Trump.
“I’m going to Walter Reed to get my physical,” Biden told journalists crossed the South Lawn to board Marine One. The results of the test will be released later on Wednesday.
Polls showing a majority of Americans think he is too old to run again for president and doesn’t have the mental acuity for a second term, which would finish when he is 86 years old.
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In his exam in February last year, White House physician Kevin O’Connor said the President’s gait “remains stiff”, but cleared him saying he was “healthy” and “vigorous.”
Biden does 45 minutes-worth of balancing exercises with a physical therapist daily to address his gait.
Biden also had a detailed “neurologic exam” that found nothing “consistent with any cerebellar or central neurological disorder.”
“He did not demonstrate any motor weakness, but a subtle difference in heat/cold sensation could be elicited,’ the 2023 letter said.
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