Speculation around Donald Trump's health has plagued his second presidency.

20:12, Wed, Nov 26, 2025 Updated: 20:18, Wed, Nov 26, 2025

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The President has made 39% fewer public appearances in his second term (Image: Getty)

Shocking analysis of Donald Trump’s diary shows that he has appeared in public 40% less in his second term compared to his first. President Trump was the oldest man ever to be elected to the White House when he won the 2024 election at the age of 78.

The former Apprentice host has spoken passionately on several occasions about his mental and physical health, claiming to have “aced” cognitive and physical exams since his reelection. However, analysis by the New York Times shows that Trump is appearing in public less and starting his official engagements later in the day when compared to his first term between 2017 and 2021. Trump’s official schedule, which is logged in a database maintained by Roll Call, shows that his official appearances have dropped by 39%.

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Trump has consistently claimed to be in peak physical condition (Image: Getty)

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It states that the president held 1,688 official events between January 20 and November 25 in 2017.

However, in the same period this year, he has led more than 600 fewer, appearing 1,029 times.

In 2017, the president started his day on average at 10.31am but tended to start his day in the afternoon during his second term, with an average start time of 12.08pm.

His average finish time has remained consistent in both terms, at an average of around 5pm.

Despite Trump’s protestations that he is in peak physical condition, speculation around his health has plagued his second presidency.

On several occasions, Trump has been pictured with a dark mark on his hand, which has seemingly had make up applied in an attempt to conceal it.

Some have expressed concern that the marks could be the result of an ongoing serious health condition or severe bruising caused by medical treatment.

The King and Queen of Britain and Donald and Melania Trump

The president whas been seen with a dark mark on his hand on several occasions (Image: Aaron Chown/PA Wire)

Fears intensified on his state visit to the UK after an official photograph, taken with King Charles and Queen Camilla, alongside his wife Melania Trump, once again showed a failed attempt by the president and his team to hide marks on his hand with make up.

Last month the White House faced questions after it emerged that Trump had an MRI scan during a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Presidential physician Dr Sean Barbabella said in a statement at the time that Trump's appointment was a "scheduled follow-up evaluation" "as part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventative health assessments".

He added that the president "continues to demonstrate excellent overall health”.

While Trump admitted to having an MRI, neither he nor his officials were not prepared to state on which part of the body the scan was conducted.

Trump said: "I have no idea what they analyse, but whatever they analyse, they analysed it well and they said that I had as good a result as they've ever seen."