US President Joe Biden “continues to be fit for duty,” his doctor decreed in a 6-page report after he concluded his annual physical on Wednesday, ahead of this year’s presidential race where the 81-year-old is almost certain to compete.
Biden spent over two-and-a-half hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the annual tests. His physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, wrote that Biden “feels well and this year’s physical identifies no new concerns.”
“President Biden is a healthy, active, robust, 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency,” O’Connor said.
The Democrat president in 2021 broke the record, becoming the oldest president inaugurated, aged 78 at the time. Should he secure a second term this year, as he intends, he would be 86 after leaving office.
Contrary to his physical report, a recent special counsel’s report on the investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents repeatedly questioned his memory.
It described it as “hazy,” “fuzzy,” “faulty,” “poor,” and having “significant limitations,” while saying the president would come across to a jury as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden responded to the report, telling reporters: “My memory is fine.” He was visibly angry at the report claiming he had forgotten when his son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015, aged 46, denying the alleged memory relapse.
The Wednesday physical included what the report called an “extremely detailed neurologic exam,” which concluded there were no signs of stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s or other similar conditions.
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