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During a conversation with reporters on Air Force One, US President Donald Trump expressed willingness to disclose the findings of a recent MRI scan, though he admitted he was unsure which part of his body had been scanned.
“If they want to make it public, I’m fine with that. It’s perfect,” Trump stated when asked about releasing the MRI results.
When pressed for details about the specific area of the body examined, Trump responded, “I have no idea. It was just an MRI – what part of the body? It wasn’t the brain, because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”
These remarks surfaced after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz urged Trump to reveal the MRI results. This call to action followed a Thanksgiving post on Truth Social where Trump criticized Walz’s approach to handling the state’s Somali community, using derogatory language.
In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Walz questioned, “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?”
After later telling reporters he received an MRI, Trump said they should ask his doctors why he received the MRI, but no reason was provided.
In early November, CNN’s Kristen Holmes asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt why Trump got an MRI and she said, “I’ll check back on that,” but no follow up information was provided for why he received the MRI.
“Every single day the president is in optimal physical health. This was a follow up appointment, and we provided a detailed readout of that physical,” Leavitt said.
The White House announced in July that Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition in which valves inside certain veins don’t work the way they should, which can allow blood to pool or collect in the veins.
About 150,000 people are diagnosed with it each year, and the risk goes up with age.
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta said in September that chronic venous insufficiency is not uncommon in older adults and is a condition that prevents blood from “leaving the extremities as well as it should” and causes swelling.
