{"id":411847,"date":"2026-05-04T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411847\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:17:08","slug":"trumps-off-campus-dentist-visit-sparks-new-health-worries-the-white-house-has-its-own-dental-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411847\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s off-campus dentist visit sparks new health worries. The White House has its own dental suite"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump<\/a> has raised new questions about his health after he had a dental procedure over the weekend, and chose to visit his local dentist rather than use the on-site dentistry clinic at the White House.<\/p>\n

The president was in Florida over the weekend to attend regional events, including a PGA tour game at his Doral golf club. On Saturday, a report from the White House press pool noted that Trump went to visit his local dentist in Florida for a scheduled appointment. Back in January, Trump made a similar visit<\/a> to his Florida dentist, even though the White House has its own dental clinic on-site, USA TODAY<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Other presidents have used the White House operatory, including former President Joe Biden when he needed a root canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Independent has asked the White House for comment.<\/p>\n

Trump, who will turn 80 next month, has been the subject of numerous health-related issues. Earlier this year, bruising around Trump’s hands<\/a> drew speculation that he was suffering from some malady. There has been a constant stream of commentary concerning Trump’s mental state<\/a> since his return to the White House. Presidential health trackers are also pointing to Trump’s swollen ankles<\/a> \u2014 photographed again during his weekend trip to Florida.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr, walking across the South Lawn of the White House. Trump visited a dentist in Florida over the weekend, and upon his return was spotted suffering from swollen ankles (Getty)<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Trump was photographed with his son, Donald Trump Jr. His swollen ankles visible in the photos are likely the result of chronic venous insufficiency, which he was diagnosed with last July.<\/p>\n

According to the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, “CVI damages those valves, causing blood to pool in your legs.”<\/p>\n

“This increases pressure in your leg veins and causes symptoms like swelling and ulcers,” according to the hospital.<\/p>\n

In January, Trump told the Wall Street Journal <\/a>that he’d tried using compression socks to help treat the issue but stopped because he “did’t like them.”<\/p>\n

Trump has made some unusual medical choices in the past. Most notable is his use of aspirin. Trump takes 325 milligrams of aspirin<\/a> every day, according to the Daily Beast<\/a>. That’s four times the doctor-recommended dosage.<\/p>\n

When asked why, Trump said it was because aspirin was \u201cgood for thinning out the blood, and I don\u2019t want thick blood pouring through my heart.”<\/p>\n

Trump has previously blamed the bruising on his hands partly as a side effect of his aspirin use, while the White House previously explained it away by saying the discoloration was caused by frequent and vigorous handshaking.<\/p>\n

Despite the continuous questions about his health, Trump has insisted he is perfectly healthy, both mentally and physically.<\/p>\n

During a fundraising inner dinner earlier this year, Trump mentioned his former White House doctor, Ronny Jackson \u2014 who is now a Republican congressman from Texas \u2014 and said the physician told him he was “by far” the healthiest of the last three American presidents.<\/p>\n

“He took a lot of heat for this,” he said of Jackson. “They said, ‘Who is the healthiest of the three?’ He said, ‘President Donald J Trump by far. If he didn’t eat junk food, he’d live to 200 years old.’ And I love this guy.”<\/p>\n

That list includes former President Barack Obama, who regularly played basketball and golfed \u2014 a pastime he shares with Trump \u2014 and whose weight remained around 180 pounds during his presidency.<\/p>\n

In 2018, he told reporters that Trump’s cardiac health was “excellent” and insisted that the president had good genes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has incredible genes, I just assume,” Jackson said, according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump has also complained about footage of him closing his eyes for prolonged periods during press conferences in the Oval Office, saying photographers had caught him while he was blinking. He also told the Wall St Journal that he sometimes closed his eyes because \u201cit\u2019s very relaxing for me\u201d and said that some meetings were \u201cboring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TrumpTrump has denied claims that he regularly falls asleep during meetings (Getty)<\/p>\n

One of Trump\u2019s previous doctors, Harold Bornstein, gave the then-candidate a glowing health report, predicting that the Republican \u201cwill be the healthiest individual elected to the presidency.\u201d Bornstein, who died in 2021, later claimed that Trump himself had written the report, telling CNN :\u201dHe dictated that whole letter. I didn\u2019t write that letter. I just made it up as I went along.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2021 it was claimed that Trump had been sicker than claimed when he was treated for Covid at Walter Reed Medical Center the previous year.<\/p>\n

The next major medical milestone in Trump’s career as president will likely be his annual checkup. He’s almost a month overdue for his annual, which last took place on April 11, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[16457,211783,103133,266,134,527,581,211780,160138,111,139,69,5296,135,57257,22639,211782,54228,3337,15758,211781],"class_list":["post-411847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-color-image","tag-donald-trump-us-president","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-government","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-horizontal","tag-international-landmark","tag-males","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-photography","tag-politics","tag-politics-and-government","tag-son","tag-south-lawn","tag-us-president","tag-usa","tag-washington-dc","tag-white-house-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411847","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=411847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}