Was It Your Brain? Reporter Asks Trump About MRI and Is Told 'I Have No Idea What They Analyzed '

[boonecreek]

Source: Mediaite

President Donald Trump admitted having "no idea what they analyzed" when he underwent an MRI during a recent trip to Walter Reed Medical Center.

Last month, Trump casually revealed he underwent magnetic resonance imaging, which
the White House has dubiously insisted is "standard" for routine physicals. In a statement
about the visit, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt referred to Trump's exam as his "annual checkup" which as some have pointed out, is the President's second this year.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/was-it-your-brain-reporter-asks-trump-about-mri-and-is-told-i-have-no-idea-what-they-analyzed/

[Inkey]

1. Either he really is incurious or ...

We all know the the reason we are being medically examined.
He will not let any weakness show. Too big of an ego ?

[iemanja]

2. He's lying

as usual. A doctor wouldn’t give a test like that without explaining why.

[Wiz Imp]

5. I saw a video from a doctor who thinks Trump actually was given a CT Scan, not an MRI

based on the way Trump first responded to the question about it. And of course, whether MRI or CT Scan, the doctors surely at least told him what body part they were checking.

[slightlv]

8. Doc may have explained...

And the info was hone from his brain 2 minutes later. The man is a demented geriatric who should be in an old folks home. And we are governed... if you can call it that... by a cabal of xtian nazis.

[PatSeg]

14. Yeah, I've got a feeling

it WAS explained to him, but it just didn't register or he doesn't remember.

[travelingthrulife]

15. Maybe we need to start referring to them as 'Christian Nazis'

Hitler used christians in the same way.

[Nasruddin]

9. Both can be true

Dr may have explained
T may have no idea what was done

[karynnj]

16. I agree. I know my husband and I have looked at my chart

after any doctor's visit.

I have never had an MRI, but you could bet I would be on my chart reading both the test results and the visit summary, using Google to understand words I don't know.

[RockRaven]

3. Any follow up question other than "You can't remember?" is intentional malpractice.

[unblock]

4. If he actually doesn't know, the cognitive decline is way worse than we've suspected lol

[3Hotdogs]

6. It was his brain. They MRI'd it.

The didn't find anything.

[BlueKota]

7. I was thinking he didn't know what they analyzed

because he doesn't have one, and wondered what body part they substituted instead.

[3Hotdogs]

11. The thing that is interesting, it was more likely a C.A.T. scan, than an M.R.I. - what ever difference that makes to

non-medical people.

After the hospital visit, he was asked if he had an M.R.I. He answered in the positive, while making back and forth motions with his hands. CATS go back and forth. MRI's are stationary.

[CTyankee]

10. His supporters (mostly the "religiously insane") don't care. He is following up with their women-hating agenda and that

is all they care about. It is a waste of time to me even discussing his glaring mental disturbance. To them, he is doing God's work and that is all they care about.

[Wonder Why]

12. He has no idea? Then it's his brain. I'll bet it did a lot of resonating in that empty space!

[twodogsbarking]

13. Not routine. Nope, not at all.

[Vinca]

17. If the scan included his lower colon, then it was probably his brain they were searching for.

Or Pam Bondi or maybe K$H or Saint Mike or Lindsey. Some people are saying there's a condo project up there.

[DrFunkenstein]

18. There's A Song From A Scarecrow in Oz That Comes To Mind

Maybe the wizard could give him one when he helps out Dorothy...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. MaddowBlog-The White House's line on Trump's recent MRI raises more questions than answers

Asked about his recent MRI, the president said, “I have no idea what they analyzed.” That doesn’t make the underlying questions go away.

The White House’s line on Trump’s recent MRI raises more questions than answers - MS NOW

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— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-11-17T15:46:25.105Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-line-trumps-recent-mri-raises-questions-answers-rcna244348

A week after the medical exam, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt conceded that she didn’t know why this specific test was ordered. A week after that, the president himself acknowledged during a brief Q&A with reporters that he’d undergone magnetic resonance imaging, but he declined to say why his doctors had ordered the scan.

The issue continued to linger in the background for a while. On Nov. 4, Leavitt boasted about Trump’s “optimal physical health,” though she didn’t know the reason for his MRI. On Nov. 12, the press secretary again insisted that the president is in “exceptional physical health,” adding that the MRI results were reviewed by “radiologists and consultants,” but she offered no additional details.

Then on Friday night aboard Air Force One, en route to Mar-a-Lago, Trump provided a bit more of his medical insight.

Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding.

Reporter: Was it your brain?

Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-11-15T03:50:11.977Z

.....Asked whether the MRI was on his brain, Trump replied, “I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well. And they said that I had as good a result as they’ve ever seen.”

It’s entirely possible there’s nothing to this story; but given Trump’s unfortunate record, he hasn’t exactly earned the benefit of the doubt on questions of medical transparency. What’s more, Dr. Vin Gupta, a medical analyst for MS NOW, explained online, “Even if you are leader of the free world, you don’t just get an MRI without a clear reason to do so. There’s no such thing as a ‘screening’ MRI.”

That Trump has said he has “no idea” what the MRI was for doesn’t exactly resolve the underlying questions about what happened or why.