{"id":57490,"date":"2025-12-01T19:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57490\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:07:28","slug":"heres-what-trump-said-about-his-mri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57490\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what Trump said about his MRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B4ES4L6HRBE33O2C2ZZ7XYTI6E\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that he has \u201cno idea\u201d what body part his October MRI scanned but would be \u201cokay with\u201d it being released to the public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"62DBTK4RO5GW3G6ZO7JMAQDZTU\">Flying on Air Force One, journalists asked Trump about the test after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz \u2014 and at one time, vice-presidential candidate \u2014 urged for the president to issue the results. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WK23AAEV5FFJNEGSOWPXQVRQEU\">The push came in the wake of Trump\u2019s Truth Social post in which he calls Walz a slur for the Somali immigrants within Minnesota, which Trump claims are \u201ccompletely taking over the once great state of Minnesota.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SGIAM6LITRDIVMFKWMVW2F4RUQ\">\u201cThe seriously r******d Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115625429081411360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump wrote<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CSTTNJ5QUZFWZLECAO5KJOILLQ\">Afterwards, Walz\u2019 push for the MRI results to be released had Trump saying the following, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/01\/politics\/mri-results-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to CNN<\/a>: \u201cIf they want to release it, it\u2019s okay with me to release it. It\u2019s perfect.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XIZF5YV55BDUJPQMBBPVIA3I3Q\">The president, however, couldn\u2019t tell reporters what portion of his body the MRI scanned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QQ5RULU6INBDBIU6SE6TFPXF74\">\u201cI have no idea. It was just an MRI \u2013 what part of the body? It wasn\u2019t the brain, because I took a cognitive test and I aced it,\u201d Trump reportedly told journalists aboard the plane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"46WT4ECHRFE6NHTTCXVAGI7SO4\">Walz, in response to the president\u2019s inability to say what the MRI was for, replied with this comment on NBC later that day: \u201cHas 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2FWITCRPHVGFZGJSCSLQJVC7CU\">Trump completed the MRI during an October trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, months after his annual physical in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QE7HCUWURZDQXHRNKUE5XPXYE4\">Nevertheless, the October trip was deemed his \u201croutine yearly checkup,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/01\/politics\/mri-results-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to CNN.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that he has \u201cno idea\u201d what body part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-57490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}