U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during question to Washington, D.C., from Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, U.S., November 30, 2025.
Anna Rose Layden | Reuters
The White House connected Monday released caller details astir President Donald Trump's October MRI, offering a much broad mentation for the process aft questions astir wherefore the 79-year-old underwent precocious imaging astatine Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt work aloud from a summary during the regular property briefing, saying that the MRI was portion of Trump's "comprehensive enforcement physical" and was ordered due to the fact that men successful his property radical "benefit from a thorough valuation of cardiovascular and abdominal health."
The White House described the imaging arsenic regular and preventative, meant to place imaginable issues aboriginal and corroborate wide function. According to Trump's physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, the cardiovascular imaging showed nary signs of arterial narrowing, impaired humor flow, oregon abnormalities successful the bosom oregon large vessels.
He recovered that the bosom chambers were mean successful size, the vas walls appeared creaseless and healthy, and determination was nary denotation of inflammation oregon clotting. Dr. Barbabella besides reported that each large organs appeared steadfast and well-perfused, with nary acute oregon chronic concerns detected.
Barbabella described the president's cardiovascular strategy arsenic being successful "excellent health."
Despite Leavitt's detailing of the MRI and consequent merchandise of the memo summarizing the MRI results from Dr. Barbabella, the White House stopped abbreviated of releasing images of the tests.
Until Monday, the White House lone described the October Walter Reed sojourn arsenic a "follow-up evaluation" that included "advanced imaging," offering nary mentation for wherefore the process was done.
The merchandise came arsenic scrutiny of the MRI intensified implicit the play aft Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democratic nominee for vice president alongside Kamala Harris successful the 2024 election, called connected Trump to merchandise the results, reacting to a Thanksgiving Truth Social post successful which Trump attacked Walz, the state's Somali assemblage and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
"Has anyone successful the past of the satellite ever had an MRI assigned to them and person nary thought what it was for, arsenic helium says," Walz aboriginal said successful an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press."
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