Biden jokes about results of his unexpected physical exam | W5589VM | 2024-03-01 11:08:01
President Joe Biden joked concerning the results of an sudden annual bodily examination he took amid considerations about his age and fitness to serve one other term.
Biden stated that docs 'assume I look too young' after taking a two-and-a-half-hour-long physical at Walter Reed National Army Medical Middle on Wednesday morning.
'I'm alright, the whole lot is squared away,' the president informed reporters later at an event in the State Dining Room about decreasing crime within the US.
'No, there's nothing totally different than last yr.'
His physical did not embrace a cognitive check, which many Republicans have been calling him to do in mild of multiple gaffes and stumbles.
Biden's doctor, Dr Kevin O'Connor, said in a six-page memo that the president 'continues to be fit for obligation'.
'President Biden is a healthy, lively, strong, 81-year-old male who remains fit to efficiently execute the duties of the presidency,' wrote O'Connor.
The oldest president in American historical past 'feels properly and this yr's bodily identifies no new considerations', the doctor added.
Biden's latest bodily had comparable results to his last examination in February of last yr when O'Connor referred to as him 'wholesome', 'vigorous', and 'fit' to serve as commander-in-chief.
Wednesday's physical comes after an& ABC News/Ipsos poll& in mid-February discovered that a majority of People, 86%, assume Biden is just too previous to serve one other time period as president. A number of days before the ballot was launched, a special counsel's report didn't pursue costs towards Biden for retaining categorized paperwork because it deemed him an 'elderly man with a poor memory'.
White Home press secretary Karrine Jean-Pierre in confirming that Biden did not take a cognitive check dismissed the need for one.
'His doctor, including the neurologist, do not consider that he wants one,' she stated throughout her press briefing on Wednesday.
'People want to know that the president passes a cognitive check each day!'
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