MaddowBog-The lingering mystery surrounding Trump's MRI takes a weird turn

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Almost two months later, the president said he’ll release the test results, though he still doesn’t know what part of his body was scanned.

I’d be far more inclined to shrug off the Trump/MRI story if he didn’t keep saying weird things about it.

After two months of questions, he has “no idea” what part of his body was tested? His meandering answer referenced his first impeachment and a cognitive exam for no reason?

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-01T15:56:06.017Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/the-lingering-mystery-surrounding-trumps-mri-takes-a-weird-turn

Remarkably, the story isn’t just lingering, it’s also getting weirder. The Associated Press’ headline summarized matters nicely: “Trump says he’ll release MRI results but doesn’t know what part of his body was scanned.” From the report:

President Donald Trump said he’ll release the results of his MRI test that he received in October. ‘If you want to have it released, I’ll release it,’ the Republican president said Sunday during an exchange with reporters as he traveled back to Washington from Florida. He said the results of the MRI were ‘perfect.’

.....Two weeks later, the president thought it would be a good idea to condemn Gov. Tim Walz as “seriously retarded,” which led the Minnesota Democrat to call on Trump to release the results of his MRI. The challenge led to a fresh line of inquiry.

Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results

Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.


Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?

Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-11-30T23:20:02.635Z

.....The president has long struggled to understand the purpose of cognitive exams, which are used to identify evidence of dementia, mental deterioration and neurodegenerative diseases. It’s entirely possible for a patient to do well on such a test and still need a head MRI.

There may be 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 still has “no idea” what the MRI was for doesn’t exactly resolve the underlying questions about what happened or why. Watch this space.

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1. As mentioned here

before, the new dementia medications are infused with an IV and need regular MRIs to rule out brain bleed.Research says they're about 25-30% effective