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While Donald Trump bragged “Perfect” MRI scan Last month, which was ignored by his colleagues as part of a routine investigation, a former white House The doctor has now cast doubt on that assessment.
White House physician Shawn Barbella It has been told Trump had a second medical evaluation this year as a “scheduled follow-up” that included “advanced imaging.” White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt later said she did not know if imaging had taken place. After days, Trump revealed During a visit to Walter Reed he underwent an MRI scan, which was described as “perfect”.
But former President Barack Obama’s White House physician Jeffrey Kuhlman questioned the more than three hours the 79-year-old president spent at Walter Reed, when the evaluation outside the MRI should have taken less than 15 minutes.
“It’s about an eight-minute helicopter ride from the South Lawn to Walter Reed. So we know he had at least four hours available for medical care,” Kuhlman said. hill“There’s a disconnect.”
Independent The White House has been contacted for comment.
Kuhlman said it was not unusual to go to Walter Reed for a scan. “Within the scope of any process, I had the capabilities at the White House. The only thing I couldn’t do, which I had to go to Walter Reed for, is advanced imaging,” he told the outlet.
Trump is the oldest person to be elected President of the United States and Barbabella described him as being in “excellent overall health”.
Before going to the military medical center, Trump called the medical visit a “semi-annual physical.” The President had not given much information about the medical examination until his recent trip to Asia.
In addition to the MRI, Trump told reporters about cognitive tests he “decided to take” at Walter Reed.
The president called Democratic Representatives Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “low IQ” before challenging them to take the same cognitive test.
“They’re really tough, they’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way. But they’re cognitive tests,” Trump said aboard Air Force One.
Trump said, “The first few questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get to five or six, and then when you get to 10, 20 and 25, they can’t come close to answering any of those questions.”
Ocasio-Cortez replied A clip of Trump’s comments shows he has undergone a dementia test. “Out of curiosity, did those doctors ask you to make a watch by any means? Was that part hard for you too? Asking for 340 million people,” she wrote on X.
At his last health checkup in April, Trump underwent the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a “commonly used test to detect mild cognitive decline and early signs of dementia.” Very good health. The President’s score was perfect, Barbabella wrote In those days.
The White House physician did not mention the test in his October memo.
as law makers Question Trump’s mental fitness, the Axios/Ipsos American Health Index The study, from June, found that 74 percent of Americans think it should be a legal requirement for any sitting president to share his health records.