sheetsadam1 — 4 months ago(December 01, 2025 05:20 PM)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-mri-results
Donald Trump said he will release the results of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan conducted during his surprise “semiannual physical” in October – but was unable to tell reporters what part of his body was under investigation.
The oldest-ever US president faced questions over the procedure on Air Force One as he traveled back to Washington DC on Sunday night after a Thanksgiving break in Florida. It is the latest episode of recurring concern about the cognitive abilities and mental fitness of the 79-year-old, who insisted he had “aced” earlier tests relating to his brain functioning.
Asked if he would make public the outcome of the scan, Trump said: “If you want to have it released, I’ll release it.” He asserted that the result was “perfect” even though he admitted again he had “no idea” what part of his body was scanned.
“It was just an MRI,” he said. “What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test, and I aced it.”
Trump was similarly vague about the scan after his 10 October visit to the Walter Reed national military medical center, which was portrayed by Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, at the time as a “routine yearly checkup”, even though he had his annual physical in April.
“I have no idea what they analyze, but whatever they analyze, they analyzed it well and they said that I had as good a result as they’ve ever seen,” he said in November. “The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor.”
Tim Walz, the Democratic Minnesota governor and running mate to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election that Trump won, lambasted the president in an appearance earlier Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.
“Has anyone in the history of the world ever had an MRI assigned to them and have no idea what it was for, as he says?” Walz said.
“It’s clear the president’s fading physically. I think the mental capacity, again, ranting, you know, crazily at midnight on Thanksgiving about everything else, there are reasons for us to be concerned.”
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