US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting at the White House AFP News

Donald Trump, 79, has spent his second presidency insisting he is in perfect health, yet he has also been strangely fixated on his own mortality and prospects in the afterlife. This contradiction has fuelled online speculation for months.

Now, the president has finally admitted to reporters that his recent, mysterious visit to Walter Reed medical centre included an MRI scan, an examination far outside a ‘routine’ physical.

What Is Donald Trump Hiding About His Health?

Speaking on board Air Force One, President Donald Trump finally provided a reason for his second medical examination this year. He had previously dodged questions about the visit, telling reporters to ‘ask the doctors’ why he went to the medical facility.

This time, he was declarative, if not detailed. ‘I did. I got an MRI. It was perfect,’ he bragged, in yet another assertion of his perfect health.

‘I gave you the full results,’ he continued. ‘We had an MRI, and the machine, you know, the whole thing, and it was perfect.’ The White House has not stated what part of the president’s body was scanned or the reason for the test.

The ‘Very Weird’ Visit That Has Critics Questioning Donald Trump

The president’s admission has only thrown fuel on the fire of online speculation. Harry Sisson, a left-wing influencer, branded the comments as ‘very weird.’

‘WOAH: Trump just accidentally let it slip that he got an MRI scan at Walter Reed recently,’ Sisson wrote on X. ‘His team claimed his visit was for a regular physical but MRI scans are not done at a routine physical. They’re for diagnosing serious conditions. Very weird…’

The president’s team has not yet clarified why the MRI was needed during what they had described as a regular physical.

‘Best Reports Ever Seen’: Donald Trump Brags Amid Afterlife Fixation

Despite the concern, Donald Trump continued to brag about his health while on the presidential plane, claiming that doctors said he has ‘some of the best reports they’ve ever seen.’

‘I think they gave you a very conclusive – nobody has ever given you reports like I gave you,’ he said. ‘And if I didn’t think it was going to be good, either, I would let you know negatively, I wouldn’t run. I’d do something. But the doctor said some of the best reports for the age, some of the best reports they’ve ever seen.’

This bravado stands in stark contrast to the president’s other recent comments. During his second presidency, Trump has repeatedly and bizarrely questioned his own chances of getting into Heaven and regularly talks about going on to the afterlife.

He has openly conceded that he has doubts about whether he will see the pearly gates.

‘I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound,’ he told reporters on Air Force One on October 13. Trump also said that he does not think ‘there’s anything going to get me in heaven.’

This fixation on mortality is paired with other physical health controversies. The president has often been seen with heavy, mysterious bruising on the back of his hand, which is frequently smudged or appears concealed with make-up.

While Trump’s physician, Dr Sam Barbabella, said that the bruising was caused by the president shaking people’s hands throughout the day and from taking aspirin, the explanation has not satisfied critics.

Tsident was also publicly diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a non-life-threatening condition which prevents blood flowing easily from the legs to the heart and often causes patients to suffer from swollen ankles.

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    Concern trolling? Biden had stage 4 cancer and most likely some form of dementia, both of which he covered up until he left office. The FBI literally chose not to prosecute him over mishandling classified documents as VP because he wasn’t mentally competent to stand trial. He was the lowest energy president in my lifetime.

    Hell, the man disappeared from the public eye for weeks at a time and the complicit media never said a word about it. Trump goes 24 hours without a shitpost on “Truth” “Social” and people start spreading rumors of his death.

    It wasn’t concern trolling to say that Biden was a sick old man who shouldn’t run for a second term - it was recognizing reality. I’m just happy his handlers are finally let the poor man rest.

    Don’t mistake this as any kind of approval for Trump, except a sort of horrified admiration of the amount of energy it takes to shitpost until 3:00 a.m. every single day. It’s simply recognition that Trump’s second term is a direct result of Biden’s failure in office, and the obvious historical fact that his declining health played a role in that failure.

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      The FBI literally chose not to prosecute him over mishandling classified documents as VP because he wasn’t mentally competent to stand trial.

      That’s nonsense

      Here’s the exact text of the report:

      https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf

      The Executive summary says that they declined to prosecute because “the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

      There was no questioning his mental competency anywhere in the report.

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        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-special-counsel-robert-hur-transcript-reviewed/

        The special counsel said he didn’t think a jury would convict Biden because they’d see him as “a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory”.

        Here’s a direct quote from the executive summary of that report:

        In addition. Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires.

        That is, one of the reasons the special counsel didn’t think he could establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is that Biden’s memory was so bad - even in 2017, four years before he became President - that it would be reasonable to assume he accidentally forgot where he put classified documents.

        I’ve never worked with classified documents, but I work with PII belonging to my employer, and the day I forget where I keep that information is the day I fucking retire. Or get fired. But apparently the standards are lower for the most highly classified information in the world than they are for personal customer data.

        Look. In 2024, Donald Trump was sharp and competent enough that a jury could, in theory, find him liable for deliberately mishandling classified documents, and if I recall correctly the FBI was still trying to do so when Trump was elected.

        In 2024, according to the special counsel, Biden wasn’t. And hadn’t been for years.

        You can draw your own conclusions. The rest of America already did.

        Jesus fucking Christ, can we stop putting demented old men in charge of the most powerful nation on Earth?

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      And just like Hilary and the DNC gave us Drumpf the first time, Kamalama-Ding-Dong and the DNC gave us this second round of hell.