President Donald Trump said he will undergo what he called a "semiannual physical" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday -- about six months after his last physical exam.

"I'm meeting with the troops, and I'm also going to do a, sort of semiannual physical, which I do," Trump told reporters during remarks in the Oval Office on Thursday.

Trump last had a physical exam in April, also at Walter Reed.

In a statement on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump would visit Walter Reed, just outside Washington, D.C., in Bethesda, Maryland, "for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops" and while there he would "stop by for his routine yearly checkup."

Speaking Thursday, Trump said he felt he was in great shape.

"I like to check, always early

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