# Trump is dying **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 27, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520 "2025-08-27T07:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/802 "2025-10-27T21:32:38Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > The doctors said some of the best reports—for the age—some of the best reports they’ve ever seen. … > > IANAD (nor do I play one on TV), but I have had several MRIs and none of the results have been phrased in this manner. They focused on the issue which triggered the procedure, without talking about “quality.” In that Never-Never Land (if only 🙄) called trump world, EVERYTHING from a handshake to a war has a winner and a loser. He is saying that he WON his MRI, because the docs say his was the BEST. By his score keeping, he can’t even be _the same_ as anyone else. If he had an MRI (and we’re not exactly sure _what he had_) on the same day when 50 other guys had MRIs, then his had to be the best, meaning he was the winner over all those other guys and they were all LOSERS. Damn, it must be awful to live inside that head. In fact, if they did an MRI of his head, I’m sure this is what they found. (Hell, it’s the season to pull this oldie-but-goodie out of the archives… 😏) [![](https://i.imgur.com/V25QZZh.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/V25QZZh.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/803 "2025-10-27T21:38:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Damn, it must be awful to live inside that head. In fact, if they did an MRI of his head, I’m sure this is what they found. Swiss cheese works as an image, too. But you’re right about Donald’s bizarre “perfect” description of his MRI: it’s all about Being the Winner. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/804 "2025-10-27T21:43:48Z")
I’m a tad surprised that he added the “for the age” qualifier: it implies the possibility that someone younger may have had an even better 😲 MRI. I’m not sure whether it dovetails with the other indications that he realizes his _corpus_ is beginning to fail him, but it does strike me as something of an anomaly. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/805 "2025-10-27T22:18:19Z")
> [@robby](#): > > Having had several MRIs in my life, I can say confidently there is _no f\*\*king way_ Trump got one—at least not a successful one—unless they sedated him to unconsciousness. Come on, this is the guy who falls asleep in every meeting. He was probably out cold as soon as he lay down. And yeah, it’s not unusual for people to get full-body MRIs. Especially when they don’t have to worry about paying for health care. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/806 "2025-10-27T22:19:30Z")
There’s no way Donnie Long Balls has a tie that hangs that low. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/807 "2025-10-27T22:35:20Z")
From the “How has the disgraced,” etc. thread: > [@How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/2530): > > Doctors have been posting that no one gets an MRI as part of a routine physical. They are ordered in response to concerning symptoms. > > > [Dr. Vin Gupta > > ‪@vinguptamd.bsky.social‬ > > ](https://bsky.app/profile/vinguptamd.bsky.social) > > > > Even if you are leader of the free world, you don’t just get an MRI without a clear reason to do so. There’s no such thing as a “screening” MRI. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/808 "2025-10-27T23:04:51Z")
That’s not exactly true. [Anyone can get a full body MRI](https://prenuvo.com/) if you’re willing to pay for it, pretty much. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/809 "2025-10-27T23:05:41Z")
> [@duality72](#): > > f you’re willing to pay for it Well, that rules out Trump getting one. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/810 "2025-10-27T23:18:31Z")
> [@robby](#): > > Having had several MRIs in my life, I can say confidently there is _no f\*\*king way_ Trump got one—at least not a successful one—unless they sedated him to unconsciousness. > > The procedure takes 20-40 minutes, requires keeping yourself absolutely still, and sounds like a bunch of jackhammers going on around you the whole time. There is no way Trump has the patience, self-restraint, or discipline to successfully get though this. Yeah. That was my thought. Maybe he confused a CT scan with an MRI. The two machines are superficially similar to the uninformed or ignorant. I get regular CT scans now because I’ve had cancer and it’s part of my follow-up medical care. Unless Trump has had something equally serious he wouldn’t be getting either CT’s or MRI’s as part of his _routine_ check-ups. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/811 "2025-10-27T23:23:40Z")
A lot of doctors are against using CT scans without a specific need. They expose the body to a lot of radiation. Getting a CT every year as part of a routine checkup would be more likely to cause cancer than to find cancer (or other life-threatening conditions) that would be missed otherwise. MRIs are expensive and can be uncomfortable, but the don’t pose much health risk because they don’t expose the patient to ionizing radiation. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/812 "2025-10-27T23:34:27Z")
I was reading posts here while chopping up some food for dinner and listening to the old movie X2 on a TV in the background. Then the ‘magneto escape scene’ came on and somehow I wondered whether trump had any ‘trump coins’ on him at the time of the MRI. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/813 "2025-10-27T23:36:31Z")
I’ve had an MRI and I had it after I had a stroke, FWIW. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > In fact, if they did an MRI of his head, I’m sure this is what they found. Sorta like that except pumpkin seeds are useful. > [@needscoffee](#): > > Come on, this is the guy who falls asleep in every meeting. He was probably out cold as soon as he lay down. I don’t imagine he was sedated but still, if he was in an MRI machine he was pretty much stuck in there for 15 minutes or more. And during that time, the fate of America was in the hands of… luck? I very much doubt Trump would hand the reins to JD Vance for even a quarter of an hour. > [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > I was reading posts here while chopping up some food for dinner and listening to the old movie X2 on a TV in the background. Then the ‘magneto escape scene’ came on and somehow I wondered whether trump had any ‘trump coins’ on him at the time of the MRI. The next time he goes in for an MRI, I hope someone tells him to stick one of those coins up under his balls for luck. Edit: then again, there’s probably no actually precious metal in them so it wouldn’t do anything. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/814 "2025-10-27T23:53:59Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > From the “How has the disgraced,” etc. thread: Full-body MRIs are big business now. I’m not saying there wasn’t any indication that he needed an MRI, just that it’s fully possible he got a full-body one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/815 "2025-10-28T00:50:00Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > In that Never-Never Land (if only 🙄) called trump world, EVERYTHING from a handshake to a war has a winner and a loser. He is saying that he WON his MRI, because the docs say his was the BEST. By his score keeping, he can’t even be _the same_ as anyone else. If he had an MRI (and we’re not exactly sure _what he had_) on the same day when 50 other guys had MRIs, then his had to be the best, meaning he was the winner over all those other guys and they were all LOSERS. I’d love to be able to tell Him, right to His face and with His full attention, ‘You’re old. I’m younger than you are. That makes me better than you. Old Loser.’ ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/816 "2025-10-28T00:54:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ‘You’re old. I’m younger than you are. That makes me better than you. Old Loser.’ “That’s fake. I’m the youngest person ever. People have been saying ‘Sir, there’s never been anyone younger than you’.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/817 "2025-10-28T01:16:19Z")
“He was a strong, tough baby, and he was crying.” ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/818 "2025-10-28T03:20:19Z")
I’ve had a bunch of MRIs for reasons that are completely boring. My knee hurts. My foot hurts. They found stuff that wouldn’t be relevant to the president’s job. As for being stuck inside… They can always stop the test and pull you out. If someone declared war on us while the president was having an MRI, they would do that. Just like they’d wake him up if he were asleep. I’d love for it to be a sign of his impending doom, but that just doesn’t seem likely. I’m easy more excited by his mutterings about heaven. > [@needscoffee](#): > > Full-body MRIs are big business now. I’m not saying there wasn’t any indication that he needed an MRI, just that it’s fully possible he got a full-body one. And yeah, he might have just gotten a full body scan because he’s a hypochondriac, and had the power to get that done. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/819 "2025-10-28T06:12:06Z")
I doubt he is seriously ill or “dying” even though I understand why people hope that is the case. Consider, Fred (father) lived to be 93. Yeah, he suffered from dementia for a long time but pneumonia was his actual cause of death. Mary Anne (his Mom) made it to 88. His sister Maryanne lived to 86. The other sister, Elizabeth, is still alive at the age of 83. His older brother Fred Jr. died at 42 of a heart attack brought on by his alcoholism. The other brother Robert died at 71 in 2020 from head injuries after a recent fall. My point is - based on his genetics DJT is likely to last another 5-10 years even if his apparent dementia is real. Yeah, he’s a fat fuck with really crap dietary habits but I expect we are unlikely to be getting rid of this fuckwad anytime soon. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/820 "2025-10-28T06:55:55Z")
He also has a growing list of powerful enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/821 "2025-10-28T10:37:54Z")
It seems like every time there’s a news report of a feeble Trump, he retaliates with some shocker like tearing down the White House east wing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=42)