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President Donald Trump said on Oct. 27 that he received an MRI earlier this month.
Trump went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 10 for what he called his “semi-annual physical.” He had already had a physical in April.
Speaking with reporters on Air Force One on his way to Japan, Trump was asked if he received an MRI during his doctor’s visit.
“I did, I got an MRI, it was perfect,” Trump said, adding that the reporter would need to ask the doctors for the reason why he underwent MRI testing. “I think they gave you a very conclusive. … Nobody has ever given you reports like I gave you. And if I didn’t think it was going to be good… I wouldn’t run…The doctor said some of the best reports for the age.”
Who on this board has gotten an MRI as part of a routine annual physical?
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He did not say what prompted the test—which is not usually carried out during routine checkups—despite being asked directly by reporters.Speculation has long swirled about Trump’s physical well-being, even though the White House insists he is a picture of health.
“I gave you the full results,” he continued. “We had an MRI… you know the whole thing. And it was perfect.”
Asked “what in particular” this involved, Trump said, “You can ask the doctors.”
He said doctors were travelling on the plane. “I think they gave you a very conclusive—nobody has ever given you reports like I gave you. And if I didn’t think it was going to be good either, I would let you know, negatively.
“I wouldn’t run, I’d do something. Erm, erm. The doctors said some of the best reports—for the age—some of the best reports they’ve ever seen.”
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IANAD, but I would swear he has the brain of a three-year old. A slow three-year old. 
Nobody.
Nobody has ever had the bigliest MRI results until now.
I’ll bet, not sarcastically, he doesn’t know what an MRI is. And I don’t mean that he would, say, confuse it with a CT scan, I mean, if you asked him to describe the procedure, he couldn’t even come up with ‘it’s the one where they put you in the tube with all the loud noises’. In other words, it wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t have an MRI, but at some point heard the term MRI, assumed it was a complicated medical process that the reporters wouldn’t understand and wouldn’t question him about.
Remember this is the same guy who said ‘nobody knew health care could be so complicated’. He, truly, believed he was the first person to ever dig into the US health care system so deeply as to realize just how complicated it is. He’s always under the impression that he understands things that are so complicated it’s not even worth attempting to explain them to the rest of us because we simply won’t get it.
OTOH, I’m hearing more and more about people getting voluntary ‘body scans’ to pick up things that would have otherwise gone unnoticed for a while. So maybe that.
So, trump had an MRI. They examined his head, and found nothing.
Always looking on the worst side of things, it could have just been a routine diagnostic MRI, except that as the president he gets to walk down the hall and do it now, instead of having to wait six weeks for an appointment at the imaging center across town.
Something like mentioning to the doctor your knee or shoulder is bothering you, may as well get an MRI and see what’s going on.
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.
His mind is so far gone that he thinks he’s British! (“Erm, erm”?!)
My spouse is a cancer patient, and he has had MRIs due to extensive lymphoma (just a couple). They do not hand out MRIs like candy. However, he is president, and the requirements might be different for him. I don’t recall Biden every receiving an MRI, and he was older. Yes, something is happening, but what we will never know until after the fact….if then.
It’s clear at this point that Trump’s health is failing, and that he’s aware of it. He speculated about whether he’s going to heaven. He talked about how important it is to take little tiny steps so he doesn’t fall like Biden did. The White House announced that he had a physical at a time when he normally wouldn’t get a physical. We’ve seen the bruising. Now Trump says he got an MRI, which doctors generally order only when they’re looking for something specific (i.e. it’s not like a dental X-ray).
Trump said, “You can ask the doctors,” but doctors are forbidden to talk about the medical condition of a patient to anyone but other health professionals, or the patient himself, or someone with medical power of attorney. Trump is an idiot, but I’m sure he knows this. Making statements that can’t be verified is part of his M.O.
I would say that talking about an MRI when no one knew he’d taken one is more evidence of Trump’s mental decline, but he’s done things like this before. During his first term he brought up the cognitive test that he said he passed so brilliantly. It was a dementia test. Telling the world that he was even given the test was not a smart move.
Yes, the whole “surrender to the machine” aspect strikes me as an obstacle for a routine, precautionary screening of 45/47.
Maybe the jackhammers simply reminded a real estate developer of what was happening to the East Wing?
I’ve only had one MRI, and it was on my foot. Probably the least intensive version of an MRI!
Just be glad they didn’t put you in head first.
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.”
Are you Michael Scott?
An MRI is a screening tool. They’re looking for stuff that shouldn’t be there (i.e., tumors, foreign objects, etc…), so anything commented on isn’t good news. That’s why the best report you’ll ever get from an MRI is “Completely unremarkable”.
Can you imagine the CFSG being told his test results are “completely unremarkable”?
I find it completely believable that the doctors told him they were the best results they had ever seen. Right before they gave him a lollipop.
“You can ask the doctors.”
“Yes, sir. Are you giving them permission to talk to us about it?”
I agree that he would never be able to be disciplined enough for an MRI, but they might easily have given him some of that stuff we get for colonoscopies. And my guess is that it was for prostate cancer. An MRI is the next diagnostic step for most men when the PSA is rising or staying too high. It might well have been either negative or inconclusive, and at his age they probably wouldn’t do anything unless it was pretty bad. Of course, at his age they might not even be doing PSA tests any more.
I’m just applying brain bleach to remove an image of 45/47 wearing a hospital gown.
With a red tie that goes down past his balls.
Now I have a real problem … a shortage of bleach