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<\/p>\nThe White House has attributed a large red spot on president Donald Trump’s neck to a skin cream he is using, without elaborating on what condition it is treating.<\/p>\n
The redness drew widespread attention Monday, when news photographers captured close-up images of the president’s neck during a Medal of Honour ceremony in the East Room of the White House.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump is using a very common cream on the right side of his neck, which is a preventative skin treatment, prescribed by the White House Doctor,\u201d Sean Barbabella, the president’s doctor, said in a statement. <\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump leaves following a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President is using this treatment for one week, and the redness is expected to last for a few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The White House did not immediately respond to follow-up questions, such as what the cream is, when Trump began the treatment and what condition it is supposed to prevent. <\/p>\n
Zoomed-in photos from at least as far back as an \u201cangel families\u201d event at the White House on February 23, a day before his State of the Union address, show visible redness on the president\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n
The president’s medical report from his April 2025 physical noted that he was taking mometasone cream \u201cas needed\u201d for an unspecified skin condition.<\/p>\n
The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including why Trump says the Iran war isn\u2019t \u201cboring\u201d, and Liam Lawson\u2019s new lessons for the F1 season. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n
Trump, 79, became the oldest president to have taken the oath of office when he was sworn in last January.<\/p>\n
In particular, because of his advanced age, Trump’s health is closely scrutinised.<\/p>\n
Barbabella said in December that Trump had an MRI imaging on his heart and abdomen in October as part of preventive screening for men his age, with the results being \u201cperfectly normal.\u201d <\/p>\n
That October physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center found that Trump is in overall \u201cexceptional health,” according to Barbabella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House has attributed a large red spot on president Donald Trump’s neck to a skin cream…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-310528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}