US president says he has ‘no idea’ what part of the body was scanned but ‘it wasn’t the brain’
Donald Trump has said he will release the results of an MRI test that he took in October, amid swirling questions over the president’s health.
The US president said he has “no idea” which part of his body was scanned but insisted the results would be “perfect”.
“If you want to have it released, I’ll release it,” the president said during an exchange with reporters as he traveled back to Washington from Florida on Sunday.
“It was just an MRI,” he said. “What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”
The White House has so far declined to detail why Trump had an MRI during his physical last month, or on what part of his body.
The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has said that the president received “advanced imaging” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center “as part of his routine physical examination” and that the results showed Trump remains in “exceptional physical health.”
An MRI scan, which stands for magnetic resonance imaging, uses a powerful magnetic field and radio waves to create high-resolution images of tissue and organs.
They can be used to diagnose a variety of conditions.
There has been speculation in recent months over the 79-year-old president’s health.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has called on Trump to “release the MRI results.”
In an interview with NBC on Sunday, Walz said the president is “fading physically” and questioned his “mental capacity”.
“There’s reasons for us to be concerned. This is the guy that randomly says the airspace over Venezuela is closed. I’m deeply concerned that he is incapable of doing the job,” he said.
Trump’s estranged niece Mary Trump, recently said the President’s impulse control problems were “deteriorating” and said he was displaying the same “deer in the headlights” look as her grandfather, Fred, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
In August, California Governor, Gavin Newsom who has been engaged in a bitter online feud with Trump, suggested the president has dementia.
Alex Jones, a Trump ally who hosts the InfoWars podcast, also suggested the President was facing a full blown health “crisis”.
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“I’ve seen a lot of signs of Trump declining,” he said. “And so he’s on a lot of the time, but like a light bulb is starting to go out. It gets brighter, it gets dim; it goes in and out.”
There is no evidence that Trump is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease nor dementia, and he said in October he had passed a cognitive test at Walter Reed military hospital.
“The first couple of questions are easy,” he said of the test. “A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions,” he said.
