The cause for Donald Trump’s recent hospital stay has been made public.
Since he was seen earlier this year with a “large bruise” on his hand, which his team apparently tried to hide with what seemed like an enormous quantity of makeup, the president’s health has been in the news.
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), which occurs when your leg veins get damaged and are unable to function normally, was another illness the 79-year-old was diagnosed with.
Earlier this month, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump would be going to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a yearly physical.
Leavitt said: “President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up. He will then return to the White House. President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly thereafter.”
However, according to CNN, Trump paid Walter Reed a visit in April for what the White House referred to as his “annual physical examination.”
Trump has now disclosed that he had an MRI scan as part of the examinations he had during his hospital stay on October 10.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, an MRI scan is a “test that creates clear images of the structures inside your body using a large magnet, radio waves, and a computer.”
Speaking to press onboard Air Force One on Monday (October 27), the POTUS said: “I gave you the full results. We had an MRI, and the machine, you know, the whole thing, and it was perfect.”
Trump did decline to say why he had the scan, however, adding to reporters: “Nobody has ever given you reports like I gave you. 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.”
The president doesn’t seem too worried regarding his health though, concluding: “The doctor said some of the best reports for the age, some of the best reports they’ve ever seen.”
After strange claims that Trump had passed away earlier this year, speculation about his health reached previously unheard-of heights.
Among the many things that contributed to the commotion were remarks made by Vice President JD Vance.
In the case of a ‘grave calamity’, Vance asserted at the time that he could take over as president.
“I’ve had a lot of on-the-job training in the last 200 days, but the president is in incredibly good health. He’s got incredible energy,” he told USA Today in August.
“While most of the people who work around the president of the United States are younger than he is, I think that we find that he’s actually the last person to go to sleep, he’s the last person making phone calls at night, and he’s the first person who wakes up and is the first person making phone calls in the morning.”
