Following Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN)'s demands for President Donald Trump to release the results of his October MRI scan, the president says he will release them despite saying the results were perfect. But some of the public remains dubious and skeptical.
After Trump taunted Walz with an offensive slur, the former Vice Presidential candidate questioned the president's mental health, retorting with, "Release the MRI results."
On Sunday, Walz went on "Meet the Press" and said, " "Here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families, we ate, we played Yahtzee, we cheered for football. This guy is apparently in a room ranting. This is not normal behavior. It's not healthy ... has anyone in the history of the world ever had an MRI and had no idea what it was for?"
That demand took on life on social media, where people started posting hashtagged calls to release the results.
When press asked Trump about them on Air Force One Sunday, he replied, "It was just an MRI. What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”
YouTube host David Pakman questioned that claim immediately, posting on X, "So Trump still has no idea what part of his body the MRI looked at, but the results were awesome, but he knows it wasn’t his brain because he aced a dementia test. WE NEED THOSE MRI RESULTS."
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova isn't buying Trump's claims of medical perfection, posting on X, "Nobody gets an MRI without knowing exactly why they are doing it and everybody absolutely knows which body part is in question."
Journalist and podcaster Wajahat Ali posted on Bluesky, "Projection. Definitely something wrong with him. Release the MRI. If there's nothing to hide, Trump has nothing to lose."
"This continues to look like Trump is suffering from anosognosia (as Woodrow Wilson did) where you cannot accept/process that you are ill or injured. With this illness if they told him "MRI for your brain" he literally would not remember it," wrote journalist and podcaster Keith Olbermann on X.
"Let's compromise. Release the MRI of WHERE in his body Trump shoved the Epstein Files," Olbermann added on his Bluesky account.
Author John Pavlovitz wrote on X, "Donald Trump can't even spell MRI."
Mark Jacob, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune posted on Bluesky, "Trump brags about his supposed cognitive skills while claiming he doesn’t even know why he got an MRI."
Cognitive/behavior research scientist Dr. William R. Knecht posted on his Bluesky accout, "Of course Trump knows what the MRI was for. He's simply lying the way he, the sociopath, always does."