STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that he has “no idea” what body part his October MRI scanned but would be “okay with” it being released to the public.
Flying on Air Force One, journalists asked Trump about the test after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — and at one time, vice-presidential candidate — urged for the president to issue the results.
The push came in the wake of Trump’s Truth Social post in which he calls Walz a slur for the Somali immigrants within Minnesota, which Trump claims are “completely taking over the once great state of Minnesota.”
“The seriously r******d Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both,” Trump wrote.
Afterwards, Walz’ push for the MRI results to be released had Trump saying the following, according to CNN: “If they want to release it, it’s okay with me to release it. It’s perfect.”
The president, however, couldn’t tell reporters what portion of his body the MRI scanned.
“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,” Trump reportedly told journalists aboard the plane.
Walz, in response to the president’s inability to say what the MRI was for, replied with this comment on NBC later that day: “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?”
Trump completed the MRI during an October trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, months after his annual physical in April.
Nevertheless, the October trip was deemed his “routine yearly checkup,” according to CNN.