Debunking the Left’s Wild New Hoax About Trump’s MRIhttps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/02/debunking-the-lefts-wild-new-hoax-about-trumps-mri-n4946622It’s funny how the Left never misses a chance to conjure up a controversy when it comes to Donald Trump’s health. This time, they targeted the MRI results from Trump’s annual executive physical. X lit up with bad-faith attacks and astroturfed allegations, fueled by left-wing activists with nonexistent medical degrees insisting “preventative MRIs” don’t exist.
Trump’s MRI was performed at Walter Reed in October. The imaging focused on his cardiovascular system and abdomen, not his brain, legs, or whatever else the Left wants to make jokes about this week.
In his report, White House physician Sean Barbabella called the MRI “perfectly normal.” He described it as part of an “executive health assessment.” It’s preemptive care, not reactive. This kind of detailed evaluation is specifically recommended for someone like Trump, considering his age and role. When you’re leading the world’s most powerful country, skipping the thorough checks isn’t really an option… well, unless you’re Joe Biden, of course.
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One such Biden apologist, Chris Jackson, chirped that “No one gets preventative MRIs.”
There are countless other posts on X making similar claims, and all of them are wrong.
Spend two seconds on Google, and you’ll find several options for elective full-body MRIs for regular folks, available at high-end clinics and tech-driven health companies. CNBC did a feature on this back in 2023, about a business selling $2,500 full-body scans, which it claimed could detect over 500 health conditions before you even know you have them — and that people were “lining up” to get scanned.
Just last month, the New York Times reported that this kind of preventative imaging is growing in popularity. Why? Because imaging technology has gotten really, really good, and people with the means to get it preventatively are doing so.
My wife and I have more experience with MRI's than we would, ummm, prefer. Both of us, in different decades, had MRIs done in response to frequent headaches, ostensibly hoping to rule out more serious causes. Well, we both won that lottery, and both of us had benign brain tumors. The preemptive (hoped for) MRIs found our problems (we're doing fine now).
After my surgery and over the next year or two (late 1980s, memory fading), I underwent 2 or 3 preventive MRIs, to be sure the tumor had not returned nor was there some other problem in the area of the surgery.
Recently, my wife started having daily bad headaches, and underwent a preemptive MRI to see if a tumor had developed where she had had surgery some 20 years ago. No tumor was found this time.
I've been hearing occasional radio ads for full-body MRI scans for two or three decades. Contrary to what
Trump-Hater Progs want to be true, MRIs are frequently done, either fully electively or preemptively, to rule out or identify serious problems. Maybe in Canuckia and other countries that have fewer MRI scanners per million population, MRI scans are done more or less only as an extreme diagnostic measure, but in the US elective and preemptive MRI scans are done with some frequency.
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