# What is Trump's current health? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 9, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538 "2020-10-09T02:26:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/41 "2025-12-02T23:16:20Z")
I’d like to have him have an MRI twice a day. So much fun. Can I pick the music? Oh, oh, oh. Bruce Springsteen. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/42 "2025-12-03T00:08:16Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > If Trump got an MRI, I guarantee you that it was for a specific reason. I agree with everything in your post except this. Trump could have heard about the scam full-body MRI and to pacify him they give him a more limited MRI. We just do not know. Now, he probably has some chronic medical problem – because almost everyone does by age 79. And the fact that he has stopped having rallies shows you he is, like others his age, slowing down. None of that tells me anything about his life expectancy. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/43 "2025-12-03T02:40:22Z")
This company’s been promoting them hard. I believe trump’s was for his brain, though, no matter what he was told. Gift link: [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/dealbook/full-body-mri.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.508.dn7e.efeYa4PAUQsr&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/dealbook/full-body-mri.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.dn7e.efeYa4PAUQsr&smid=url-share) ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/44 "2025-12-03T10:31:13Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I’d like to have him have an MRI twice a day. So much fun. Why not a hokey cokey? It’d keep him too busy to get up to mischief. (I’ve had one, as part of a research project: not much fun), ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/45 "2025-12-04T05:09:13Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Why not a hokey cokey? It’d keep him too busy to get up to mischief. > > (I’ve had one, as part of a research project: not much fun) What is a hokey cokey in this context? ---
**Author:** ![Decomposed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/decomposed/32/20342_2.png) [@Decomposed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Decomposed)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/46 "2025-12-04T06:01:42Z")
Trump just had an MRI of his torso as part of normal screening for a man his age. The results? “Perfectly normal.” And, of course, he plays golf frequently. When you see that decreasing, you’ll know his health isn’t what it used to be. [White House releases details of Trump's MRI scan - CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mri-abdomen-heart-white-house-says/) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/47 "2025-12-04T06:12:52Z")
> [@Decomposed](#): > > Trump just had an MRI of his torso as part of normal screening for a man his age. The results? “Perfectly normal.” Welcome to the SDMB! If one is willing to take the publicly released information at face value, from an administration which is well-known for being less than entirely truthful, then more power to you. And, as has been discussed in several threads here, including this one: no, an MRI is typically not done as “part of normal screening,” even for a man of his age. Doctors generally only order an MRI if there is something specific that they are checking for: > [@](#): > > “No, it is certainly not standard medical practice to perform screening MRIs of the heart and abdomen,” says radiologist and [MRI expert](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmri.26736) Thomas Kwee of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Such imaging is typically only performed in the case of underlying disease, he says, or if there is suspicion of an underlying disease based on the patient’s medical history and physical examination. > **[Trump’s MRI Is Not Standard ‘Preventive’ Care, Say Experts](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-mri-is-not-standard-preventive-care-say-experts/)** > > “It is certainly not standard medical practice to perform screening MRIs of the heart and abdomen,” says one expert ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/48 "2025-12-04T06:35:08Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > What is a hokey cokey in this context? In out, in out… . ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/49 "2025-12-04T08:34:25Z")
Let’s look at it the other way and consider an unhappy thought. Even with the best healthcare, age 79 is getting up to near the life expectancy for any man in any nation, and health maladies are to be expected. At what point would the absence of disease suggest Trump is an unusually _healthy_ person for his age? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/50 "2025-12-04T08:48:22Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > At what point would the absence of disease suggest Trump is an unusually _healthy_ person for his age? It’s an interesting hypothetical, but evidence is that there is no absence of disease. Cognitive disease is evident, and there are the bruises that the administration pretends never happened. (Also, the man has valiantly struggled against bone spurs his entire life, which must have taken its toll. /s) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/51 "2025-12-04T13:41:49Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > What is a hokey cokey in this context? I’ll repeat the above question. Never heard of a hokey cokey. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/52 "2025-12-04T14:05:41Z")
I’d rather see him do the hokey croakey. There are certainly some unanswered questions about his health. Why did he disappear from view for several days. Why is he suddenly not on the golf course? How is a guy who weighs 224 pounds built like a walrus? The signs of physical and mental decline are obvious and seem to be accelerating. I want to see the images from the MRI- not that I would know what I’m looking at but so people that do know will be able to give us some straight answers. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/53 "2025-12-04T14:35:33Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Never heard of a hokey cokey. I thought it was known in the US > **[Hokey Pokey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_Pokey)** > > The Hokey Pokey (also known as Hokey Cokey in the United Kingdom) is a participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure. It is well-known in English-speaking countries. It originates in a British folk dance, with variants attested as early as 1826.\[citation needed\] The song and accompanying dance peaked in popularity as a music hall song and novelty dance in the mid-1940s in the UK. The song became a chart hit twice in the 1980s. The first UK hit was by The Snowmen, De... ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/54 "2025-12-04T14:54:13Z")
Oh, **Hokey Pokey**. Never heard of Hokey Cokey. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/55 "2025-12-04T15:34:53Z")
It’s the same thing only twitchier. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/56 "2025-12-04T17:00:52Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Never heard of Hokey Cokey. It’s the UK version, as the song and dance became popularized there in the 1940s before it caught on in the US. Funny enough, going back to the 1842 in Scotland, it was called the Hinkumbooby. Which I think sounds more appropriate for Trump for some reason. It could describe most of his policies, a bunch of Hinkumbooby. Or, if the MRI found a mass in his chest, you could say he was diagnosed with a Hinkumbooby. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/57 "2025-12-04T18:06:29Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Or, if the MRI found a mass in his chest, Would that it were an _Alien_. Of the movie sort, not the immigrant sort. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/58 "2025-12-04T18:18:18Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Of the movie sort, not the immigrant sort. ICE would still be going after that xenomorph, and probably blame the Biden administration for letting it in with open borders. Also, I feel obligated to mention that people who want to rant about Trump and health-related issues, there is a place for you in the Pit. Lots of wit (much of which is less-than-stellar but hey, it’s the Pit) can be seen in that thread. And every now and then, some good info. > [@Trump is dying](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/): > > Starting this thread in the Pit as I imagine there is little substantive discussion to be had and most of the commentary will be along the lines of wishing Trump a swift journey to Hell. First and foremost, apologies if I am crying wolf here. However, I will remind everyone that the boy who cried wolf wasn’t wrong about the wolf, he was just early. And I am well aware that if I watch one Youtube video on a particular subject, Youtube will do its best to feed me similar videos for the rest of th… ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/59 "2025-12-04T21:21:01Z")
“She messed around with a bloke named Hokey She loved him though he was cokey” That’s all that comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538/60 "2025-12-04T21:41:07Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Would that it were an _Alien_. Of the movie sort, not the immigrant sort. Either would be interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trumps-current-health/922538.md?page=4)