Trump’s 9/11 Appearance Sparks Fresh Health Concerns

Saul Loeb/ AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump has sparked fresh speculation about his health after his face appeared droopy at a memorial for the September 11 attacks.

The right side of the 80-year-old president’s face drooped significantly as he sat on stage at the Pentagon during a memorial service in which he also struggled to stay awake.

“That’s a facial droop,” pointed out the Washington-based pulmonary and critical care physician Nick Mark on X .

The president’s alarming appearance comes exactly a year after a droopy face sparked similar concerns at a 2025 event memorializing the terror attack.

It was the right side of Trump’s face that was abnormally drooping then, too.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump’s initial facial drooping led experts to speculate he had suffered a stroke.

Professor Bruce Davidson of Washington State University’s medical school told The Court of History podcast that there is “evidence” to back up his claim.

“I think his stroke was on the left side of the brain, which controls the right side of the body,” he said.

“I think the stroke was six months ago or more, earlier in 2025.

There are videos of him shuffling his feet , which is not what we’d seen previously when he was striding on the golf course.

We’ve seen him holding his right hand cradled in his left.

Earlier in 2025, he was garbling words, which he hadn’t done before and which he’s improved upon more recently.” Davidson said that Trump also has “marked episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness,” known medically as hypersomnolence, which are common among stroke patients.

Davidson later wrote for the Daily Beast , “To the trained, careful observer, it is evident that President Donald Trump had a stroke.” A firestorm of health concerns has surrounded Trump in his second term.