{"id":193937,"date":"2026-03-16T20:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193937\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:15:11","slug":"trump-reveals-florida-gop-representative-had-a-terminal-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193937\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reveals Florida GOP representative had a terminal diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump said Monday that Florida GOP Rep. Neal Dunn at a terminal diagnosis and was supposed to be dead by June as a result of a health problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, that wasn&#8217;t public,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/after-dc-grand-jury-decision-speaker-johnson-renews-call-to-indict-six-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> said in response to Trump\u2019s remarks at the Kennedy Center Board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson told donors during a Florida retreat that Dunn was terminally ill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/16\/trump-neal-dunn-terminal-diagnosis-mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the Axios news outlet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Trump, he intervened in Dunn\u2019s medical care. The state of Dunn\u2019s health is not known.<\/p>\n<p>The care that Trump helped get Dunn a \u201cnew lease on life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conversation about Dunn\u2019s health came up when Trump and Johnson talked about how the house speaker had a very narrow majority and he could <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/house-of-representatives-departures-frustrations-cause-disorder-for-louisiana-republican-speaker-mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">only afford to lose two votes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Number One, it was bad because I liked [Dunn],\u201d Trump said after saying he had a terminal illness. \u201cNumber Two, it&#8217;s bad because I needed his vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said after he learned Dunn had a terminal diagnosis, he referred him to Walter Reed where he got emergency surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a long operation,\u201d the president said. \u201cThey gave him more stents and more everything that you can have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said that after Dunn got the surgery, he acted 30 years younger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump said Monday that Florida GOP Rep. Neal Dunn at a terminal diagnosis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-193937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}