Through April 2025, a series of online posts claimed the New York Police Department publicized U.S. President Donald Trump's height and weight. These posts spread after the White House released U.S. President Donald Trump's latest medical exam results, noting that he was 6 feet, 2.5 inches tall and weighed 224 pounds — numbers that led some people to ask whether those were his true height and weight measurements.
However the online posts claimed the NYPD had publicly confirmed Trump's real height as 5 feet, 10 inches and his weight as 287 pounds. Some posts shared the claim with Trump's August 2023 mug shot from Fulton County, Georgia. Facebook posts from late April 2025 stated:
NYPD has just confirmed that Trump's height is 5'10" and his weight is 287 lbs. They know this because he was arrested, booked, weighed, photographed, and fingerprinted for his 34 felonies. This is very different from his scripted 6'3" 220 pounds.
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In short, there was no evidence of the NYPD publicly confirming Trump's height and weight in any news releases or on social media. Trump was booked and fingerprinted by the NYPD in a Manhattan court on April 4, 2023, but his booking documents were not publicly available. As such, we have rated this claim as false.
Snopes contacted the NYPD to learn whether it had ever shared such information, as well as the Manhattan district attorney's office to obtain Trump's booking documents from his April 2023 arraignment. We will update this post if more details become available.
The NYPD's news release webpage, X account and Instagram account had no publicly available information about Trump's height and weight.
On April 4, 2023, Trump appeared at a Manhattan criminal courthouse for his booking and arraignment. Trump was facing charges related to hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. An unnamed source reportedly told news organization Mediaite that Trump informed police officers that he was 240 pounds and 6 feet, 2 inches tall. As of this writing, Snopes has not seen his New York City booking documents to verify that statement.
The above height and weight were different from the information recorded in the Georgia county jail system, where Trump was booked months later in August 2023. Trump appeared in Fulton County, Georgia, where he had been indicted on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges as part of an investigation into potential 2020 election interference. The mug shot from the above claim was also taken when Trump was booked in Fulton County.
Fulton County Sheriff's Office records noted Trump's height as 6 feet, 3 inches and his weight as 215 pounds.
(Screenshot via Fulton County Sheriff's Office)
Jumping forward to April 2025, when the White House released Trump's medical record, which can be read in full here, Trump's height was listed as around half an inch shorter than his recorded height in Fulton County and almost 10 pounds heavier.
Online news media outlet Politico reported in 2016 that Trump's driver's license listed him as 6 feet, 2 inches.
The White House record is the most recent publicly available information on the president's height and weight as of this writing. There is no available statement or evidence from the NYPD stating that Trump is 5 feet, 10 inches or 287 pounds as the above posts claim. Anonymous sources from his New York City booking in April 2023 indicate Trump was taller and weighed less than the claim stated, while the Fulton County Sheriff's Office records from August 2023 also show similar discrepancies in Trump's height and weight.
Ultimately, it was not possible to independently confirm the president's height and weight at this time. However, there is no evidence that he is 5 feet, 10 inches or 287 pounds.