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boonecreek

(1,302 posts)
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:51 PM Friday

Was It Your Brain? Reporter Asks Trump About MRI and Is Told 'I Have No Idea What They Analyzed '

Source: Mediaite

President Donald Trump admitted having "no idea what they analyzed" when he underwent an MRI during a recent trip to Walter Reed Medical Center.

Last month, Trump casually revealed he underwent magnetic resonance imaging, which
the White House has dubiously insisted is "standard" for routine physicals. In a statement
about the visit, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt referred to Trump's exam as his "annual checkup" which as some have pointed out, is the President's second this year.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/was-it-your-brain-reporter-asks-trump-about-mri-and-is-told-i-have-no-idea-what-they-analyzed/

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Was It Your Brain? Reporter Asks Trump About MRI and Is Told 'I Have No Idea What They Analyzed ' (Original Post) boonecreek Friday OP
Either he really is incurious or ... Inkey Saturday #1
He's lying iemanja Saturday #2
I saw a video from a doctor who thinks Trump actually was given a CT Scan, not an MRI Wiz Imp Saturday #5
Doc may have explained... slightlv Saturday #8
Yeah, I've got a feeling PatSeg Saturday #14
Maybe we need to start referring to them as 'Christian Nazis' travelingthrulife Saturday #15
Both can be true Nasruddin Saturday #9
I agree. I know my husband and I have looked at my chart karynnj Saturday #16
Any follow up question other than "You can't remember?" is intentional malpractice. RockRaven Saturday #3
If he actually doesn't know, the cognitive decline is way worse than we've suspected lol unblock Saturday #4
It was his brain. They MRI'd it. 3Hotdogs Saturday #6
I was thinking he didn't know what they analyzed BlueKota Saturday #7
The thing that is interesting, it was more likely a C.A.T. scan, than an M.R.I. - what ever difference that makes to 3Hotdogs Saturday #11
His supporters (mostly the "religiously insane") don't care. He is following up with their women-hating agenda and that CTyankee Saturday #10
He has no idea? Then it's his brain. I'll bet it did a lot of resonating in that empty space! Wonder Why Saturday #12
Not routine. Nope, not at all. twodogsbarking Saturday #13
If the scan included his lower colon, then it was probably his brain they were searching for. Vinca Saturday #17
There's A Song From A Scarecrow in Oz That Comes To Mind DrFunkenstein Saturday #18
MaddowBlog-The White House's line on Trump's recent MRI raises more questions than answers LetMyPeopleVote 22 hrs ago #19

Inkey

(459 posts)
1. Either he really is incurious or ...
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:02 AM
Saturday

We all know the the reason we are being medically examined.
He will not let any weakness show. Too big of an ego ?

iemanja

(57,152 posts)
2. He's lying
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:14 AM
Saturday

as usual. A doctor wouldn’t give a test like that without explaining why.

Wiz Imp

(8,185 posts)
5. I saw a video from a doctor who thinks Trump actually was given a CT Scan, not an MRI
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:29 AM
Saturday

based on the way Trump first responded to the question about it. And of course, whether MRI or CT Scan, the doctors surely at least told him what body part they were checking.

slightlv

(7,039 posts)
8. Doc may have explained...
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 01:11 AM
Saturday

And the info was hone from his brain 2 minutes later. The man is a demented geriatric who should be in an old folks home. And we are governed... if you can call it that... by a cabal of xtian nazis.

PatSeg

(51,504 posts)
14. Yeah, I've got a feeling
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:10 AM
Saturday

it WAS explained to him, but it just didn't register or he doesn't remember.

travelingthrulife

(3,832 posts)
15. Maybe we need to start referring to them as 'Christian Nazis'
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:14 AM
Saturday

Hitler used christians in the same way.

karynnj

(60,684 posts)
16. I agree. I know my husband and I have looked at my chart
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:22 AM
Saturday

after any doctor's visit.

I have never had an MRI, but you could bet I would be on my chart reading both the test results and the visit summary, using Google to understand words I don't know.

BlueKota

(4,912 posts)
7. I was thinking he didn't know what they analyzed
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:41 AM
Saturday

because he doesn't have one, and wondered what body part they substituted instead.

3Hotdogs

(14,817 posts)
11. The thing that is interesting, it was more likely a C.A.T. scan, than an M.R.I. - what ever difference that makes to
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 08:16 AM
Saturday

non-medical people.

After the hospital visit, he was asked if he had an M.R.I. He answered in the positive, while making back and forth motions with his hands. CATS go back and forth. MRI's are stationary.

CTyankee

(67,591 posts)
10. His supporters (mostly the "religiously insane") don't care. He is following up with their women-hating agenda and that
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 01:57 AM
Saturday

is all they care about. It is a waste of time to me even discussing his glaring mental disturbance. To them, he is doing God's work and that is all they care about.

Wonder Why

(6,378 posts)
12. He has no idea? Then it's his brain. I'll bet it did a lot of resonating in that empty space!
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 08:45 AM
Saturday

Vinca

(53,037 posts)
17. If the scan included his lower colon, then it was probably his brain they were searching for.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:34 AM
Saturday

Or Pam Bondi or maybe K$H or Saint Mike or Lindsey. Some people are saying there's a condo project up there.

DrFunkenstein

(8,871 posts)
18. There's A Song From A Scarecrow in Oz That Comes To Mind
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:58 PM
Saturday

Maybe the wizard could give him one when he helps out Dorothy...

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,762 posts)
19. MaddowBlog-The White House's line on Trump's recent MRI raises more questions than answers
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 01:49 PM
22 hrs ago

Asked about his recent MRI, the president said, “I have no idea what they analyzed.” That doesn’t make the underlying questions go away.

The White House’s line on Trump’s recent MRI raises more questions than answers - MS NOW

apple.news/AXHTWd4CKSli...

(@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-11-17T15:46:25.105Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-line-trumps-recent-mri-raises-questions-answers-rcna244348

A week after the medical exam, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt conceded that she didn’t know why this specific test was ordered. A week after that, the president himself acknowledged during a brief Q&A with reporters that he’d undergone magnetic resonance imaging, but he declined to say why his doctors had ordered the scan.

The issue continued to linger in the background for a while. On Nov. 4, Leavitt boasted about Trump’s “optimal physical health,” though she didn’t know the reason for his MRI. On Nov. 12, the press secretary again insisted that the president is in “exceptional physical health,” adding that the MRI results were reviewed by “radiologists and consultants,” but she offered no additional details.

Then on Friday night aboard Air Force One, en route to Mar-a-Lago, Trump provided a bit more of his medical insight.

Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding.

Reporter: Was it your brain?

Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-11-15T03:50:11.977Z


.....Asked whether the MRI was on his brain, Trump replied, “I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well. And they said that I had as good a result as they’ve ever seen.”

It’s entirely possible there’s nothing to this story; but given Trump’s unfortunate record, he hasn’t exactly earned the benefit of the doubt on questions of medical transparency. What’s more, Dr. Vin Gupta, a medical analyst for MS NOW, explained online, “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.”

That Trump has said he has “no idea” what the MRI was for doesn’t exactly resolve the underlying questions about what happened or why.
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