Many people have questioned why US President Donald Trump needed to get an MRI scan during a recent hospital trip, yet White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has offered an explanation that some might have expected.
There have been a number of questions surrounding Donald Trump's general health and wellbeing across the course of his first year back in the Oval Office, which are understandable considering the fact that he's currently 79 and will be the old age of 82 when his current term ends.
He has been quick to question the health of others across the course of this year, offering dangerous statements regarding the consumption of Tylenol during pregnancy and recently issuing visa bans for people with a number of pre-existing conditions, including obesity and cancer.
However, Trump's recent trip to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has left many questioning whether he's fit to continue as president, as he was also required to undertake an MRI scan as part of his short stay.
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This, combined with his recent assertion that 'nobody knows what magnets are', have caused many to hone in on this procedure, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has attempted to offer clarification regarding the matter in a new statement.
In a video shared by journalist Aaron Rupar on X, Leavitt was asked for further details regarding Trump's MRI scan, to which she responded:
"President Trump received advanced imaging at Walter Reed as part of his routine physical exam. The full results were reviewed by attending radiologist and consultants and all agreed that President Trump remains in exceptional physical health."
While you can be asked to undergo an MRI scan for a wide variety of reasons, they aren't typically part of a routine scan or check up – even for the president – and some have poked holes in Leavitt's explanation.
"An MRI isn't routine. They were looking for something, or at something," one of the replies alleged. "They couldn't even come up with a well thought out lie for this."
Another added that "you don't get MRIs if you're in good health. MRIs are only ordered if something needs to be investigated further and the results are either benign or conclusive of an underlying issue."
One even linked this to the magnets comment, wondering if Trump had "any trepidation about getting into a machine that relies so heavily on magnetism."
Nobody will truly know whether Leavitt's claims are true or not without access to the president's medical records, but it certainly adds to a growing list of health-related concerns that people have, joining an absurdly bruised hand, a recent cognitive examination, and videos where Trump simply looks a bit lost.