RED FLAGS Over Trump Health After Hospital Trip

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]The White House is very much trying to push back on questions and concerns about the president's health, and I'm not sure how successful they're going to be. Trump's third visit to Walter Reed in about a year has raised questions about whether he is fully healthy, whether he's fully up to the job, and whether he's being forthcoming about it or whether he's masking something. It dominated cable TV. It's dominating online, and the White House is trying to push back against the title wave. Take a listen to some of the analysis as the afternoon began on Tuesday on CNN.

[00:00:34]>> One thing I can say is true um about uh Donald Trump's health is that his doctors do say that that he's very healthy. I had this surreal interview in the Oval Office with Donald Trump uh and two of his doctors from Walter Reed. Uh this is in late December. And I did ask the question of the doctors, one of whom said that uh he saw Barack Obama when Obama was president. I asked, "Well, who is healthier?" And the doctor did say to me without skipping a beat, even though I mean the president was staring at him, he had a little bit of pressure on him, but he did say President Trump is healthier. I'm not saying that President Trump is healthier than Barack Obama uh was when he was president, but it is true that the doctors are saying that.

[00:01:12]And so either the doctors are under Donald Trump's thumb or they're seeing something that uh is pretty miraculous.

[00:01:19]>> Trying to run back through the calendar, we know in October Trump went to Walter Reed, what was characterized as a semiannual physical, but he had been 6 months earlier. Now he's back. There have been dental visits there, but it's not so much the calendar as what we see with our own eyes, right? We've seen him with his eyes closed at times, and that became a bit of a wedge issue today. And we've seen all that bruising on his hands and and and the discolorations there and the minimization of those details of those things we see by the White House.

[00:01:51]>> And there's been so much made of the bruising we've seen on his hands. He says it's because of that aspart he takes. and you you said he takes more than what most physicians would recommend. Tell us more about that and what the concerns might be around that.

[00:02:03]>> So, you know, first of all, when it comes to using aspirin at all, um the question is, does someone have some reason to be doing that? Is there some history of heart disease or something else that would warrant that? And again, we haven't been told that. As you just saw in the clips earlier, he said he doesn't have heart disease, but he's had tests that have shown heart disease, but they maintain he doesn't have heart disease. it again it there's this back and forth. So that's the one thing should he be taking it at all. Second of all um again the dose uh if people are taking it 81 milligrams typically uh is the dose and there's concerns about bleeding maybe that's causing some of the bruising in his hands but also concerns about bleeding internally. He's taking a dose that's four times higher 325 milligrams which is an adult dose of aspirin. He he says he wants really you know uh blood that just doesn't clot.

[00:02:53]Um, but there can be concerns with that in terms of bleeding and I think that's that's the back and forth there.

[00:02:58]>> The president Sanjay was diagnosed with what's called chronic venus insufficiency back in July. Here you can see the president's badly swollen ankles. Look at this. See the pictures there. How concerning is that diagnosis?

[00:03:13]>> Well, if if it is what they say a chronic venus insufficiency, uh, that's that in and of itself is not that concerning. Relatively common. uh one in 20 people I think on average. Um more common as you get older.

[00:03:25]>> There's been discussion about his eyes being closed, whether he's sleeping or blinking. Yes, we're truly debating whether the president is sleeping or blinking. Uh before we get into that, let's take a listen to more of the analysis on CNN. I do want to see this during this uh examination a credible explanation for his visible uh health concerns. His bruising which initially was described as due to vigorous hand shaking which is not credible. uh his severe uh edema in his ankles which was described as you know uh chronic venus insufficiency when just three months before one year ago he was uh his examination disclosed that he had no edema which would then make it acute chronic acute venus insufficiency which is an entirely different thing and finally the president has severe daytime somnorms he falls asleep very often he's fallen asleep in the oval office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the cabinet room and was concerned yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day conservances and uh chronic insomnia is a severe uh illness. It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, decrease in cognitive uh effects in older people.

[00:04:44]It's equivalent to about increasing uh your age by about three and a half years. It increases your cardiac risk of having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure. And it in and it it can produce uh a decline in uh uh your uh sort of mental functions like it could increase uh depression, anxiety.

[00:05:06]So it's a it's a real problem and the president appears to struggle to stay awake during the day and I'd like to hear what the White House has done to evaluate why the president uh has this in increased daytime suence and what they're doing to improve that.

[00:05:22]>> Dr. Dr. Vin Gupta spoke about it on MS Now.

[00:05:25]>> They didn't even know that he had a CT scan. They claimed initially and they even put out a memo saying he had an MRI and the president on Air Force One had to say no, he got a CT scan. How does a physician, especially the physician to the president not know what advanced imaging their patient is getting? So that number one. Number two, they last time back in October, they re they put out a highly skeptical readout of his physique, claiming that he had an NFL linebacker's physique, 63, about 220.

[00:05:54]Uh, you know, hard to believe, not credible, and then also sweeping statements on his lab values and his imaging, saying that they're quote unquote astonishingly good in the past.

[00:06:03]These are not normal descriptors or readouts of what a physician typically would use when describing their patients health. So, will they will they stop editorializing and just be honest and provide real data? We'll see. But right now, it's been very uh questionable what they put out.

[00:06:20]>> They're having quite a day on Twitter at the White House's rapid response handle.

[00:06:24]I mean, you shouldn't be spending much time on Twitter looking at rapid response, but we do it because it's part of our job. They are posting all these screen grabs of CNN reporters and talent um mid-sentence seemingly blinking uh between words, arguing that CNN is no less healthy than the president and that the president may in fact just be blinking when he appears to be dozing off or not fully um cognizant of what's happening with the cameras in front of him because he's being captured in photos with his eyes closed at key moments in public view. That back and forth is well, make of it what you will, but I could say it's not exactly a White House that's on message or driving a message in the middle of a very competitive midterm election season.

[00:07:11]They should be driving a message about the economy, about prices. Instead, we're talking about blinking in media source spots. Let's put that aside for a moment. There is another headline that's worthy of mentioning. It comes from Reuters and it's uh made its way pretty far pretty fast saying that Trump's claims that the 2020 election was rigged have been made more than 100 times in the past 6 months. 107 lies about the 2020 election in just 6 months.

[00:07:40]A concern that this fixation on the 2020 election and these lies could be symptomatic of another problem that Trump may have, a medical issue of some sort or another type of issue that Trump has as a vulnerability as the elections draw near. Donald Trump going to the hospital today. He's going to Walter Reed. What's Trump's team saying about this visit? They say, "Well, it's a physical and he's having major dental work done." Now, early in May, they said he had dental work being done in Florida when he was by his golf club there. And then back in January, he said that he was having dental work done as well when he kind of mysteriously disappeared. So, lots of dental work happening where both Netanyahu and Trump are being swept away apparently to hospitals and they're both apparently covering up their declining health. I mean, we know that Netanyahu had cancer and Netanyahu's prognosis by all accounts and again my opinion but by the accounts was not looking good. There seems to be a lot of cover up taking place there. And the same way we're asking questions here in the United States about our authoritarian here, the way they're saying that about their authoritarian Israel, there's a massive cover up seemingly here in the United States about Donald Trump's declining cognitive and physical uh condition. And both Netanyahu and Trump's cover-ups appear to be coming to light. I had spoken with Jamie Rascin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who had asked the White House physician, to encourage or to order some exams of Trump, to check on his health, including his mental acuity. And the White House slapped back issuing me a statement saying that, you know, Rascin is a joke and Rascin shouldn't be questioning the strength of the ever powerful President Trump. But these questions, they do just hang out there. They do drive a conversation and they lead to more questions. What else don't we know? And as elections come near, as we are now 160 days away from the voting in the midterm elections, there's questions about trust and do we trust what our leaders are telling us? Do we trust what our leaders are not telling us? The more these questions are asked, the more it risks damaging that trust. appreciate you're watching Scott McFarland Reports and following us on all platforms.

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