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Donald Trump has attempted to play down growing concerns about his health as he appeared to change a key detail regarding his upcoming check up.

The 79-year-old president will be undergoing a health screening at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. In a statement on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described it as a “routine yearly check up.”

However, Trump underwent his last annual physical in April, making him six months early for a yearly checkup. Asked about what he’s having done during the checkup and how he’s feeling on Thursday, Trump told reporters in the White House that the screening is actually a “sort of semi-annual physical”, not the “yearly” checkup that Leavitt described. It comes as a shocking theory about Trump’s second ‘annual’ check up emerged as some medical examinations cannot take place at the White House.

“I’m meeting with the troops and I’m also going to do sort of a semi-annual physical, which I do,” the president said from the Oval Office, suggesting he has done semi-annual physicals before, of which no details have been released.

Trump’s early checkup had sparked further speculation that his health is failing. But the president claimed he was going early merely out of precaution and because he was already scheduled to visit the medical center.

“You know I did, about six, seven months ago I do physicals. I like to when I’m around, I like to check always early, always be early, a lesson for a lot of people,” he said. Trump said he feels like he’s in good health.