New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- US President Donald Trump is undergoing what he has described as a "semiannual physical" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday.

The visit comes as Trump is preparing to travel to West Asia on the heels of a ceasefire deal in the Israel-Hamas war he helped broker. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described it as a "routine yearly checkup," although Trump had his annual physical in April.

The White House has not explained why Trump, who took a helicopter ride from the White House to Walter Reed on Friday morning, had to get a yearly checkup six months after his annual exam. But in an exchange with reporters Thursday, the Republican president said it was a "semiannual physical."

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