Doctors have warned that President Donald Trump’s weight gain is “a strong risk factor” for his health after the commander-in-chief has put on 23 pounds in three years, according to a report. Trump, a known lover of McDonald’s and Diet Coke, has long faced concerns about his overall health, including bruising on his hands and swelling of his ankles. But in the second year of his second term, doctors have warned that Trump’s weight gain needs to take priority, The Washington Post reports.
The 80-year-old president weighed approximately 238 pounds at his physical exam in May – 14 pounds more than last year and 23 pounds more than the 215 pounds he was listed at in 2023, documented when he was arrested in Georgia, the newspaper noted. Scott Kahan, the director of the National Center for Weight and Wellness, told the Post. Other medical experts have expressed similar sentiments about the president’s weight gain.
Stuart Fischer, a former emergency room doctor and current internist, told the Daily Mail in June that “Someone has got to really quietly sit down and talk with him, and say, ‘You're playing with fire.’” “The fact that his doctors haven't gotten through to him about weight, to me, is kind of interesting,” Fischer told the outlet. But other officials have expressed similar concerns about Trump’s weight. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. told podcaster Katie Miller earlier this year that Trump’s dietary habits were unhinged. He drinks Diet Coke at all times. He has the constitution of a deity.
I don’t know how he’s alive, but he is,” Kennedy said. The president has acknowledged his weight through jokes. While announcing new policies to make GLP-1s more accessible in June, the president said he had not taken a weight loss drug but joked, “I probably should.” During a July appearance on Second Lady Usha Vance’s podcast, the president compared his weight to that of former President William Howard Taft.
During his first term, Trump’s weight was often criticized because he weighed 243, putting him in the “obese” category for his height of 6 ft 3 in. Trump told his physician at the time, Dr. Ronny Jackson, that he would “like to lose 10 to 15 pounds” through dieting.
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