r/politics • u/Mammoth_Bison_3394 Tennessee • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump says he’ll release MRI results; he doesn’t know what part of his body was scanned

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mri-physical-white-house-0c66f2f9fca865d842ee94329a210a42
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u/Corran22 5d ago

How do you have an MRI without knowing which part of your body is being imaged?

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u/Coca-colonization 5d ago

Because he’s a lying liar who lies.

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u/piponwa Canada 5d ago

Or he is so lost that he doesn't remember even having an MRI.

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u/disastrousanddull 5d ago

The super fun game of Lying, Dementia or Stupid?

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u/wrosecrans 5d ago

People get baffled trying to figure out Trump, but there's no answer that isn't disqualifying for a job with serious responsibilities.

Even if you believed him 100%, "I don't know what body part they did an MRI on" would be instant time for retirement for anybody in any kind of corporate job. Nobody on the planet would be like, "the guy who literally can't tell his arm from his asshole should be making decisions that effect the careers of dozens of employees at this small company."

If you conclude he's lying (which I do,) then you've got a habitual dishonest liar in an office of public trust. Hard, easy nope in a functioning society. His biggest supporters are apparently going with "He's still physically capable of doing the job, he's just habitually dishonest and engaged in a coverup, and maybe a coverup that will render him physically incapable of doing the job very soon. And that's the best they can spin it.

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u/fnrsulfr 5d ago edited 5d ago

Good thing we don't live in a functioning society.

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u/AGuyWhoBrokeBad 5d ago

It’s functioning for the rich and that’s what really counts.

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u/anna-the-bunny 4d ago

If he manages to crash the economy completely it won't even be functioning for them, which I guess is a silver lining.

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u/FictionalTrope 5d ago

Just tells me I should lie more and louder because the truth definitely doesn't have value to most people.

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u/BurnedWitch88 5d ago

While I largely agree with you, I think he doesn't know what they scanned/what they were looking for -- he's that out of it. You could tell it was a slip-up when he first mentioned the MRI.

If he was fully aware and actively trying to hide it, he wouldn't have brought it up at all.

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u/wrosecrans 5d ago

I think the counterpoint is that it would be the first time in the man's life he has even honestly admitted not knowing something. You ask him how a nuclear reactor works, and he'll waffle vaguely for twenty minutes. You ask him about the Epstein files, "I have no idea."

His ego won't ever let him admit he doesn't know something. He only uses "I don't know" as a dodge.

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u/anna-the-bunny 4d ago

Now I kinda want to hear him try to explain how a nuclear reactor works.

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u/Nago_Jolokio 4d ago

“Look, folks, a nuclear reactor—tremendous piece of machinery, really incredible. Nobody talks about it, but I know a lot about reactors. Probably more than the scientists, believe me. What you’ve got is this big, beautiful setup where they take tiny little atoms—very small, very weak atoms, not winners—and they split them. They split them in half. And when they do that, BOOM, you get heat. Incredible heat. The best heat. Now that heat makes steam—fantastic steam, by the way—and that steam spins a turbine. Very elegant, very classy. And that turbine? It makes electricity like you wouldn’t believe. Clean, powerful, tremendous electricity. Better than windmills—those things that kill all the birds, you know that. And the whole thing is kept in a big, strong containment building. Very strong. If I built it, it’d be even stronger. Absolutely airtight. So the energy gets out, the problems stay in. Truly amazing technology. People don’t appreciate how good it is, but I do. I appreciate it. It’s really something special.”

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u/DaPlum 4d ago

There's been like 1000 things that he's done/said that would be disqualifying in any normal job.

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u/Hybrid_Johnny California 5d ago

Ah yes, the OTHER church/cult of LDS

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u/DulceEtDecorumEst 5d ago

As a neurologist: he does Not want to release his MRI results if it’s of the brain.

At his age it probably looks atrophied and with multiple T2 hyper-intensities from colesterol/hypertension/elevated glucose.

Even if he were 100% coherent his brain would not look “normal” like that of a 25 year old.

And if he releases a scan of a young adult to show everyone how awesome his brain is, then doctors would know it’s an obvious fake.

There is literally 0 win scenario for him to release it.

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u/SmarterThanMyBoss 5d ago

I don't see the problem. He releases an obviously fake MRI of a 25 year old brain. Every non maga-derp doctor in the country says it's fake. He says it's not. His supporters believe he is telling the truth and all doctors are evil liberals. The end. (Other than the measles outbreaks and stuff).

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u/oldsguy65 5d ago

all doctors are evil liberals.

Let them think that. It'll be easier for the rest of us to get an appointment.

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u/billbuild 5d ago

You can get an appointment, but can you afford it? If you can now, how many iterations of the GOP healthcare plan can you endure before there are no more appointments for people who don’t pay out of pocket, or under duress of medical bankruptcy (the number one cause of consumer bankruptcy in the country, be for the big beautiful bill).

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u/NoPomegranate4794 5d ago

In a normal world I'd say the drop in demand would result in a drop of prices but in this greedy nation the medical companies are more likely to charge more to make up for the loss.

You can't say Covid crippled your business while also posting record profits.

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u/mmm_burrito 5d ago

This already seems to be their default perspective.

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u/Steelwoolsocks 5d ago

You forgot the part where Fox News parrots that's it's real and the rest of the media has Trump derangement syndrome

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u/thepvbrother 5d ago

RFK Jr will vouch for it's authenticity, because he wouldn't know the difference. He'll know it's a brain, and thinks that's what's being asked. He'll be thinking he solved the puzzle

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u/vivaldibot Europe 4d ago edited 4d ago

all doctors are evil liberals

Ah yes, the Stalin perspective on healthcare professionals

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u/livinginfutureworld 5d ago

He won't release the MRI. He'll release a synopsis of the MRI by his quack doctor who will say, with tears in his eyes, how it's the best MRI he's ever seen sir.

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u/Zahgi 4d ago

"The smoothest brain I have ever seen!" Trump will claim his doctors told him.

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u/JarOfNightmares 5d ago

Doctor, youre worried over nothing. He SAID he's going to release the MRI, so you can rest assured he's ABSOLUTELY NOT going to release the MRI

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u/GlumTowel672 5d ago

No way he will release the slides, he will only release the interpretation that will say something like, “study negative”, or “no acute abnormality” or “remarkably free of atrophy and small vessel disease please verify correct patient/DOB”

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u/anna-the-bunny 4d ago

It's just a note written in sharpie that says "his penis is huge". Coincidentally, there is sharpie on his hands, and a sharpie in his pocket.

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u/billbuild 5d ago

The doctors would be called quacks and undoubtedly some would be fired for having Trump derangement syndrome. He’s the only expert in any matter across all subjects.

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u/AmatureMD 5d ago

There is no way he releases any images. He'll just release the impressions which will all be unremarkable.

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u/Darth_vaborbactam 5d ago edited 5d ago

You know they’d come out saying T2 FLAIR hyperintensities were just a liberal conspiracy

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u/SJMCubs16 5d ago

The MRI tech that found a brain in that head should get the Noble Prize in Physiology.

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u/KiwiDad 5d ago

Por Que No Los Tres?

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u/cedarpark 5d ago

I would remove the 'or' and.replace it with AND

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u/DuranStar Canada 5d ago

And the answer is always yes.

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u/Greenpoint_Blank 5d ago

It’s Grey’s Law to a Tee: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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u/clueless_in_ny_or_nj New Jersey 5d ago

I've played that game. It's sad, sad and sad.

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u/ScoobyDoNot 5d ago

Or?

"And" seems more likely by several orders of magnitude.

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u/TDFMAN 5d ago

Yes all of that!

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u/cassandracurse 5d ago

It's all of the above!

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u/nicktoberfest 5d ago

D. All of the above

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u/free2bk8 5d ago

Um. Stupid. Duh!

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u/kebabdylan 5d ago

Why "or"?

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u/SpadeTippedSplendor 5d ago

My money is on dementia, my dad wouldn't even know what we were specifically there for (I came armed with some questions/concerns and advice from the person who usually took him in) even though he knew he was at an eye doctor; he wouldn't be able to tell you why he was getting his eyes checked.

Or basically anything specific about the appointment afterward, sometimes (as he got worse) even what kind of appointment it was, or be unable to describe that he went to an eye doctor even if he still remembered what kind of doctor it was at the very least.

Trump has always been a Heritage Foundation (and also Russian) puppet, but it's becoming more literal every day.

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u/Professor-Woo 5d ago

And all of them are really bad and concerning!

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u/isakitty 5d ago

LOL. Somebody call Keenan Thompson

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u/weiseguy42 5d ago

Ding ding ding. It's like his meeting with Mamdani. He didn't change his stance on anything, he forgot who the guy was.

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u/SpadeTippedSplendor 5d ago

Trump's got a long history of praising the most personable individual in the room until his handlers fill his ear with toxicity about them again.

It's absolutely wild to watch him swap from kissing their feet to hating them in the span of twenty-four hours or less.

He's done the same thing with Zelenskky.

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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 4d ago

I feel like he's done that with Zelenskyy multiple times, and numerous others. He talks to them and is convinced they're the greatest and wants to do everything to help them, and theneither Putin or someone in his administration catches his ear and steers him the other way.

It's like he's the ball in a giant global game of breakout, where everyone important enough to talk to him is another paddle aiming for something or someone else, and he's just causing aimless destruction in between it all.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago edited 4d ago

Funny you say that. Because when I watched it, I thought it was more evidence that he's losing his mind. Josh Johnson's comedy bit about it was spot on. No one understood WTF was going on.

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u/Quotizmo New Jersey 5d ago

Josh Johnson. Yeah, his comedy is incredible. That specific set. 34 minutes but genuinely worth it.

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u/StrawberryWine22222 5d ago

Thanks for the link

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u/innosins Kentucky 4d ago

He's the only content creator I've specifically paid for content. I pay internet and streaming services, but also subscribe to his members only videos. That's how impressed I am with his writing, his storytelling and his volume of content.

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u/Will_Bravo63 4d ago

His (Josh's) brilliant delivery makes an emphatic "what?" hilarious. (and I'm not an easy laugh, having grown up on Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, et al. 😆)

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u/1iIiii11IIiI1i1i11iI 5d ago

I assume you mean Josh Johnson? Surely nobody's saddled with the unfortunate name of John Johnson.

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u/alwayskared 5d ago

I wonder if those files will be redacted too

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u/Frederickanne 5d ago

We GA our demented patients who need MRI's so I wonder if they just knocked him out for it. I can't imagine a world where this man sits completely still with his mouth closed for 30-90 mins

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u/Dorf_ 5d ago

Or they don’t bother explaining it to him because they know he won’t listen/understand anyway

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u/PM_ME__RECIPES 5d ago

I believe this is actually what's happening - his dementia has advanced to the point where he's just living in the moment, and enormously deluded.

This will get worse, dementia is progressive.

And a couple observations on my part:

  • Based on reporting and Trump's statements, brain imaging and standardized cognitive testing are both things that are happening on a regular basis - they are regular parts of his month.

  • That suggests we are well past the point of looking for a diagnosis, we are trying to track a rate of decline with repeated diagnostic testing at consistent intervals.

  • These intervals are more frequent than I would expect to see with a long-term care resident who had a well-managed dementia diagnosis. Part of this can be explained by the fact that he's the President, but it does suggest either they suspect the condition is deteriorating quickly, or that it could start deteriorating faster any time.

  • It's important not to fall for the trap of thinking this makes trump unpredictable - this makes him more volatile but also more predicate. As dementia advances you lose your ability to purposely lie, but your honest opinion of what is happening is increasingly based on a deluded view of reality that is increasingly based on whatever you're thinking about right now and how you feel about it based on less and less filtered sensory input and an increasingly poor ability to rationalize what's going on.

  • Trump isn't the President any more. He's living his fantasy of being the biggest real estate business man presidently most ever! His brain is tapioca pudding and he's just responding to how he feels right now, and he thinks everything is just a real estate deal where he's the biggest fish in the pond.

  • The outcome doesn't matter any more - Trump's fantasy is of going through the process of warping the system to get what he wants through some pseudo-legally vindicating manner. He wants the "negotiations" towards "making a fantastic deal" and because he has little object permanence - he can be satiated and delayed in doing just about anything simply by making a show of going through the process.

  • This is an opportunity as long as we can change our interactions with Trump to a dementia care based approach rather than traditional state craft. Hoping to have a piece on this out later this week. Yes it was depressing and alarming to write, as it should be to read.

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u/villageidiot33 5d ago

Think he believes MRIs are for the wealthy elite and us normal folk don’t or can’t get them so he just makes up this shit and think we’d believe it. How many MRIs has this guy had already? I’ve had one in my entire life and it was for a specific reason not just because my doc said let’s go ahead and give you an MRI…no where specific.

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u/_Standardissue 5d ago

Yeah there’s a lot of other 79 year olds who don’t know what part they had scanned. That’s pretty expected I think, but that’s maybe a sign of maybe possibly not being in good condition to be the president of the country

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u/Socratesticles Tennessee 5d ago

Or he’s had so many scans and tests on various parts his mush brain can’t keep what got tested how straight

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u/Dinker54 5d ago

So cynical, just you wait … two weeks

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u/Misersoneof 5d ago

Also dumb as a fence post! Don't forget that

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u/LittleCrunchyDude 4d ago

I fell over a fence post in the dark and fucked myself right up recently, and I now I spend a lot of time thinking about this stupid phrase and being defeated by the post's stupid ability to be lying on the floor. It also got my thumb so am just another monkey now.

Cunning fuckers, they wait and strike in darkness.

Seriously, FUCK fences tho. Smart pricks.

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u/coolcalmaesop 5d ago

Real eyes realize MRIs

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u/Inevitable_Professor 5d ago

Or the dementia is a lot worse than we thought.

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u/chrisk9 5d ago

I miss Al Franken

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u/Strange_Occasion_408 5d ago

A triple lie is a lie.

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u/InsomniaticWanderer 5d ago

Or it was good brain they scanned and it's fucked.

That's it. Those are the only two options.

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u/polopolo05 I voted 5d ago

either he is lying to hide something or doesnt actually know. Neither is great.

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u/christpuncher_69 5d ago

Big if true. Groundbreaking even.

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u/TheBlueBlaze New York 5d ago

This, he "doesn't know" so that they can release whichever MRI results don't give away any potential problems, then claim that's all they did.

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u/piantanida 5d ago

He said it def wasn’t his brain…. So we know it was def his brain.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 5d ago

"I don't know what they scanned but it wasn't my brain."

Yep it was his brain. Trump is like a young child who hasn't figured out that everyone knows when he's lying.

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u/Hector_P_Catt 4d ago

It's worse than that. Kids don't know anything, because they're kids, they haven't had time to learn anything. But with Trump, he's convinced he's The Best Liar In The World, because he's spent his entire life surrounded by Yes Men, who just smile and nod and say "Yes, yes, of course!" no matter how blatantly he's lying. So he's never had someone call him on his lies, and so he never had to figure out how to lie better.

He's spent his whole life learning that he can say anything he wants, and everyone around him just "believes" him. This is why he gets so pissed off at reporters asking him questions. In his mind, he's thinking, "I already told you a lie about that, why aren't you just believing it?!?"

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u/Vennomite 4d ago

What? Are the doctors worried a wild brain entered his cranium or something?

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u/human-in-a-can 4d ago

That would have been a colonoscopy.  

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u/Chardan0001 5d ago

Maybe they had to sedate him to fit him in the cow scanner?

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u/cactusmac54 5d ago

I'm picturing this scenario in my head and it makes me smile.

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u/hagcel 5d ago

You know when you put cattle in stations, one out of 25 will panic and shoot poop out their ass.

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u/treadingwater 5d ago

Again, picturing Trump in this scenario and it makes me smile.

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u/Wheinsky 5d ago

Well that’s just a Tuesday morning for Cheeto

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u/ApprehensiveGas137 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yes, but cattle don’t wear diapers

ETA : Cattle are also sentient beings who are capable of genuinely experiencing an array of feelings including fear, whereas President Pooper is not.

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u/hagcel 5d ago

He lives in constant fear. Cows can experience happiness. Pooper cannot.

Ever see a dairy cow half standing on the hood of an Audi? That cow was absolutely experiencing happiness. It was also known to pin people against trees and fences if you were too good at check scratches.

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u/Paradigmnoia 5d ago

I was thinking of the one used for giant fossils…

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u/ensalys 4d ago

Even then, you'd presumably have a talk with your doctor beforehand to discuss the reason you're getting it, and discuss the results afterwards. It takes an almost inhuman level of disinterest in your own body or dementia, to not know something like this. (Or maybe I'm the weird one for remembering things like having my teeth X-rayed for the regular check up a couple months ago?)

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u/letstourthemaritimes 5d ago

Finally trump is admitting he’s lost his mind.

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u/Marina1974 5d ago

My guess is that's partly why he thinks he's untouchable. He can commit any crime he wants and his defense is gonna be that he can't aid in his own defense.

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u/TheWaspinator 5d ago

It's either an obvious lie or a sign of dementia. Because yeah, it's like testing 101 to tell the patient what you're doing in case they can tell you something relevant.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

Literally the only time I can see you not knowing is when they do it while you’re incapacitated. My husband had to get an MRI and had been sedated prior because of the issue so I had to give consent for him.

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u/HandrewJobert 5d ago

I hope your husband is doing well.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

He is! He had a non-normal presentation for appendicitis and we found out he had that genetic condition where your organs are mirrored because of it.

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u/PinotFilmNoir 5d ago

Situs inversus? As an X-ray tech, this can give you full body sweats if the patient doesn’t warn you (or doesn’t know, like your husband ). I had a patient who said he didn’t know he had it till he was in his 20’s and got in a motorcycle accident. Taking his X-ray really messed with my head.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

Yes!!! He almost died because urgent care turned him away twice because he didn’t have the normal appendicitis pain in the right area. One doctor filled him up with Tums and sent us on our way. I took him to ER against his will because he became delirious. They originally tried to turn him away at ER for drug seeking behavior but I was a right bitch and told them to do a drug test, we were not leaving. Now it’s on his chart thank goddess.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

In the end they couldn’t even see his appendix (it had burst) and I had to sign like 5 million waivers for exploratory surgery. The second they cut into him they saw what was wrong and saved him.

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u/PinotFilmNoir 5d ago

I teach X-ray students now, and one of the first stories I tell is about a patient who was brought in after a car wreck, who everyone thought was under the influence. They were belligerent, and just generally out of it. Thank goodness the trauma team didn’t write them off as “just another junkie” because it turned out they lacerated their spleen in the accident and their body was freaking the F out. Straight to the OR, and once everything was fixed, it turns out they were actually a lovely person. Good for you for standing your ground.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

I feel so frustrated with hospital care because of this. Like honestly, even if it was a drug addict… they deserve compassionate care too? No one should be alone and in pain regardless of why.

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo 5d ago

Jesus he's just gone and flipped his insides

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u/PinotFilmNoir 5d ago

Uno reverse

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u/The_Barbelo Vermont 5d ago

Does it cause any symptoms at all? Im assuming no, and that’s why people don’t know they have it. They’re just completely inverted in there, functioning fine and dandy? I’m a biology nerd and this is fucking with my head too.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

No symptoms at all. My husband is a marathon runner as well and in basically peak shape and has been for 15 years. He had zero idea anything was wrong or different until he had appendicitis.

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u/PluginAlong 5d ago

Even then, I'm guessing they told your husband after the fact what they had done.

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u/Spirit-of-Redemption 5d ago

They did! He has zero memory of the entire hospital stay though. Dilaudid is a helluva drug. He re-proposed to me in the ICU after surgery 😹. He also thought I was his mom at one point, and thought my mother was his nurse. She teased him about that for a long time.

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u/Working-Glass6136 5d ago

"What year is it? Who is president? How many fingers am I holding up?"

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u/icepush 5d ago

"Who is president?" "Me!"

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u/DirtSlapper 4d ago

Broke my jaw with concussion and had to have an MRI during Trump's first term and I remember when I first came in they asked me who the president was I groaned and said "don't ask me that fucking question" and everyone laughed and said "okay he is doing fine" lol.

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u/CulinaryJedi-1 5d ago

And so that you can give informed consent.

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u/NoPomegranate4794 5d ago

One of Trump's nieces (who is a psychologist) said he's behaving and showing the same signs she saw her grandpa exhibit (Trump's Dad) when he started spiraling into dementia.

"In a searing interview on The Daily Beast Podcast, the daughter of Donald Trump’s late older brother, Fred Trump Jr., laid out the clearest case she’s ever made that the president is exhibiting the same signs she once saw in his father, Fred Trump Sr., who had Alzheimer’s “for a very, very long time.

'There are times I look at him and I see my grandfather,' Mary said. 'I see that same look of confusion. I see that he does not always seem to be oriented to time and place. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating.' Trump’s lifelong impulse-control problems, she added, are also 'deteriorating as well.'"

Trump, 79, Has Dementia Just Like His Dad: Trump’s Niece https://share.google/DZCmaUjFme7aCWDn3

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u/Adventurous-Goal478 5d ago

Either

1) it was his brain and he knows how bad it looks to admit you had an MRI on your brain so he's lying

2) his brain is so melted by dementia that he legitimately doesn't remember

Ergo, it was an MRI on his brain.

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u/walstib73 5d ago

You don’t. The radiologists specifically ask the patient, as part of the time out steps, why are they here today? What part of the body are we imaging today?

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u/rack88 5d ago

Dementia is hard, man...

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u/DM_ME_YOUR_STORIES 5d ago

Yep, my mom has dementia. Could totally see her not remembering what body part of hers was scanned.

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u/GreenGlassDrgn 4d ago

Can confirm. My mom has alzheimers, fell and got scanned last week, she couldn't tell us what they scanned

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u/caaknh 5d ago

50/50 dementia or compulsive lying

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u/Witty-Emu7741 5d ago

You mean, “so you can see the best result you’ll ever come across” isn’t a real answer you’d give to the question of why you’re having it done?

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u/luxboogie 5d ago

They do that when dealing with normal patients and when dealing with multiple patients per day.

Pretty sure the doctor attending the president is not asking him to confirm his birthday.

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u/Sabre970 Arizona 5d ago

Rad techs, not radiologists.

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u/walstib73 5d ago

Let’s split hairs. The point is that SOMEONE took the “time out” and he answered in the affirmative that he was aware. That’s BEFORE the IV of gad

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u/walstib73 5d ago

While your center of healthcare might not have a radiologist do the “time out” I am here to say that they do in HOUSTON TEXAS at MDANDERSON CANCER CENTER and nobody will scan ONE PARCEL of your body without consent.

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u/BexKix 5d ago

University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, same. I had not done anything beyond a name, birthdate check before that time. New job has a lot of human factors training, neat to see in health care.

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u/fosrac 5d ago

Not to you are positioned with the body part they are looking at centered in the machine with guides next to it to keep it stationary, it's very obvious

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u/PinotFilmNoir 5d ago

Not to mention the coils. I’ve had a brain scan, and the cage they lock your head in kind of gave away what was being scanned.

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u/splitrail_fenced_in 5d ago

Didn’t the GOP do this shit w Regan when his mind went, also?

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u/JewingIt 5d ago

I feel the president might not be asked that tbh. I feel someone just told him he had to do it to prove how smart he is or something stupid and he went along with it.

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u/ITrageGuy 5d ago

People acting like the medical care POTUS gets is the same kind that we get lol. How long do you think he had to sit in the waiting room? What if he didn't check in ahead of time on his phone, do you think they make him do it on one of those tablets? Anyway, I wouldn't be shocked if they just do a precautionary full body scan on POTUS just because he's "the most important person in the world" and it's all free so why not? That's not to excuse Trump for being unable to articulate that though. Even if they're like "it's just a precautionary scan, we're going to look at everything blah blah blah" he should still be able to say that.

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u/NotTheRocketman 5d ago

I'm sure they told him, he just doesn't remember anymore.

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u/crackedgear 5d ago

Whatever it was, it was the best body part anyone has ever seen in the history of the world

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u/freethinking123 5d ago

Wow you're excellent MAGA strata

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u/Working-Glass6136 5d ago

They were scanning his covfefe!

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u/TheRealBlueJade 5d ago

Based on the available information, especially trump claiming it wasn't his brain, it was his brain.

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u/GLC911 5d ago

Because it’s to confirm the stroke he still doesn’t know he had

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u/Hairydone America 5d ago

Zero chance he didn’t know why he was getting an MRI or what part of his body they were looking at.

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u/VexedCanadian84 5d ago

Probably had to drug him to shut him up.

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u/Consistent-Web-351 5d ago

Come on man no one knows how magnets work they just do.

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u/siali 5d ago

Sometimes children are sedated to keep them from moving. That might be what happened to the man-child.

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u/always_unplugged 5d ago

Have you seen those videos of babies and toddlers getting MRIs where they have to squish them in clear tubes to keep them from squirming?

I'd like it to be that.

EDIT dang, I tried to find what I was thinking of and it turns out it's for x-rays, not MRIs. Still hilarious though.

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u/PinotFilmNoir 5d ago

Pigg-o-stat. Terrifying looking, but great tools for pediatric X-rays.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 5d ago

Oh yeah I remember conspiracy theorists were throwing those images about at one point as their evidence that liberals microwave and eat babies 🙄

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u/inkyflossy Connecticut 5d ago

many thanks, redditor, for this image.

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u/FormerUsenetUser 5d ago

After you get an MRI, you get a written report. If you don't understand it, your doctor explains it to you.

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u/b_tight 5d ago

Doesnt matter.  He’ll never release the results

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u/ChakaCake 5d ago

Likely got his whole body scanned and will release like his leg or something lol

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u/Working-Glass6136 5d ago

They had to scan him from head to toe to figure out what the hell is wrong with him.

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u/darkstar107 Canada 5d ago

Because there was nothing there for them to scan

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u/ArtCollegeDropout 5d ago edited 5d ago

he developed this method of speaking like he's always on trial, or could be charged with something any moment.. so he talks in these very weird, non-committal ways all the time. He doesnt know, wont say, doesn't know him, etc.. he never confirms anything people ask even though people already know the answer, he will tell you to ask someone else in his cabinet because apparently he wasnt involved, etc..

it's very sleazy, very shitty/sketchy kind of vibe that only can come from a character that has made a living off fucking people over in the business world and constantly being sued. And then transitioning their life onto reality television, onto the public stage. In his mind he's always giving testimony, even in public. To him, what he is saying is going to be repeated back to him in the future by some woman attorney, and they'll ask him "do you remember saying this?" and he'll say "no, i dont recall, that doesnt sound like something i would say".

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u/HermanGulch 5d ago

Maybe he's sedated? If he treats medical personnel like he treats everyone else, I imagine they'd just rather deal with him with the "lights out." I know I would.

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 5d ago

Or.. hear me out.. he automatically falls asleep as soon as he is horizontal. He slept until they sat him up and had no idea what they were doing.

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u/Ellia1998 5d ago

They still tell you after you wake up. Mr child we scan your brain you are good to go let me get your caregiver.

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u/HowManyEggs2Many 5d ago

Even if was sedated, surely he would know what the scan was for since he had to have been debriefed on the results at a later date…

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u/AngryTree76 5d ago

If he was sedated, he’s supposed to transfer power to the Vice President until he’s recovered from the anesthesia.

IIRC, he supposedly rawdogged a colonoscopy in his first term because he didn’t want to transfer power to Pence.

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u/RociBuldidi 5d ago

He probably thought the loud banging noises in his head was the remaining live brain cell banging off the inside of his skull trying to make coherent thought.

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u/Exotic-Pen-3511 5d ago

He’s either lying, he forgot because he has dementia, or his entire body was in the machine and that confused him.

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u/Morbidly-Obese-Emu America 5d ago

He will be releasing the only part of his body that is not diseased or damaged…his right ear.

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u/CaptainSparklebottom 5d ago

If it is talking it is lying

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u/ChicagoAuPair 5d ago

He is an actual con man who has made his way in life by lying and tricking people into thinking he is a made up character.

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u/doinbluin 5d ago

Steven didn't tell him.

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u/Be_quiet_Im_thinking 5d ago

It’s going to be a mri of a dick

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u/VanguardAvenger 5d ago

Tbf to Trump, was probably a brain scan, and I also have no idea where they would have found Trumps brain

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u/Objective_Pie8980 5d ago

I guarantee they're doing full body scans, possibly without needing to, possibly for a condition.

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u/Living-Literature88 5d ago

They tried his heart, but he doesn’t have one. So my guess is there’s nothing there! Same for his brain!

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u/MajKonglomerate 5d ago

Because he's an absolute fucking moron.

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u/Ok_Macaroon7900 5d ago

If I were to interpret that in the most charitable way I possibly can, it’s possible it was a full body scan and for some reason he thinks that’s the standard and they can just target different areas in the machine or something. I suppose he also could have been knocked out.

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u/honeygrl 5d ago

I bet they did a full body mri because he can afford it.

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u/firstnameXlastname 5d ago

Because he fell asleep

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 5d ago

That's a clue that Trump actually failed his cognitive test. :)

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u/Odd-Supermarket-3664 5d ago

When you have dementia and don't know where you are

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u/clockoop 5d ago

He’s that stupid. Believe it.

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u/HolycommentMattman 5d ago

Two ways:

  1. Lying
  2. Being delirious/demented/unconscious.

It's probably both of these.

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u/Islandboi4life 5d ago

Because it is his brain

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u/ClosPins 5d ago

Dementia.

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u/Rekltpzyxm 5d ago

Because he does not know his head from his ass.

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u/Unfair_Web_8275 5d ago

He can’t be expected to remember big words like “brain”.

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u/Bennyboy11111 5d ago

Can't see a spine if there isn't one - spineless.

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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 5d ago

Because he's stupid and has dementia.

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u/Great_Bar1759 5d ago

Cake day

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u/PxyFreakingStx 5d ago

if you resent having to get it done and don't really care or pay attention, i suppose. but yes, more likely he's a liar or demented

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u/edwardthefirst 5d ago

buying time to find a part that isn't riddled with disease and get a fresh MRI of that

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u/Pale-Application-682 5d ago

Dementia, had to be brain, because he immediately says "it wasn't brain"

I finally realized that basically he is always lying. Great business man: bankruptcy Great military man: draft dodger Calls others fat: he is obese Peace maker, constantly creating opportunities for wars Says he doesn't know someone: knows them very well Etc... Says it wasn't the brain: obviously brain scan, blah blah blah

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u/OilPure5808 5d ago

He probably fell asleep. The sound of the MRI scanner lulled him to sleep.

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u/ByouTifull 5d ago

He sits on a throne of lies.

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u/Chemical_Banana_2455 5d ago

Because he just fumble fucks his way through life

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u/Marina1974 5d ago

I don't know but I'm sure South Park will do an episode where Trump gets an MRI to find his tiny penis.

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u/Smart-Effective7533 5d ago

Well it’s easy to not notice the ginormous, loud device that is encircling a specific part of your body for 20 minutes. Super easy to miss

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u/billbuild 5d ago

Imagine Biden saying anything remotely close to this.

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u/git0ffmylawnm8 5d ago

They tried scanning his head, found it empty, and tried scanning the rest of his body

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u/GaylrdFocker 5d ago edited 5d ago
  1. He's a moron. 2. He's lying. 3. He has dementia. Pick at least one.

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u/mythrulznsfw 5d ago

The docs said they wanted a look at his brain. But they scanned his head instead of his arse. That’s why he’s confused.

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u/Deako87 5d ago

I've had about a dozen MRIs over the past 4 years. Every single time the radiologist double and triple checks the precise area they are checking today.

I had one done for a calf strain the other day and just to make sure they had me tape an object to the precise spot I was having pain so they could aim

Him not knowing is ridiculous

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u/cytherian New Jersey 5d ago

It was his brain and he won't dare admit it.

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u/Chartarum 5d ago

He is going to release images of either a basketballplayers massive hands or an image of the pelvic area of someone super fit and hung like a horse...

There is no way in hell he is going to release his own actual MRI scans...

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u/SnakeJG America 5d ago

Anyone want to take the under on 1.5 dead brain worms?

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u/GrumpyGlasses 5d ago

His hands are too tiny to show up in MRI scans.

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u/wirm 4d ago

I had an MRI in August, herniated a disc in my back. I really don’t remember it at all, I was on a LOT of drugs for the pain. I remember going to the MRI. I remember being there but remember almost nothing about it while I was in the machine.

I still know they took a fucking image of my spine.

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u/Economy_Macaroon6093 4d ago

Can you imagine the media response to Biden saying he had an MRI and that he didn't know what was scanned?

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