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Ms. Toad

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8. I knew he didn't know the difference between a CT scan and an MRI

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jan 1, 2026, 03:29 PM

Jan 1

When asked about the scan by the Journal, Trump said it wasn’t an MRI but rather a CT scan. “It wasn’t an MRI,” Trump said. “It was less than that. It was a scan.”

Barbabella said Thursday the CT scan was done “to definitively rule out any cardiovascular issues.” Last month, Barbabella released a memo saying the October medical imaging was of Trump’s cardiovascular and abdominal systems and that both showed “perfectly normal” results. In 2018, Trump had a coronary CT scan that did show some abnormalities — a steady build-up of plaque in his blood vessels, indicating moderate heart disease.

I'm not going to bother to search for it, but when he first said he had an MRI, I suggested it was a cardiac calcification scan (done with a CT scan) - based on the comment about his heart being biologically younger than his age.

This pretty much confirms that. (Note: the scan not only gives a cardiac calcification score - but information about anything else they find. In my case, they found nodules in my lungs and suggested I follow up with my usual physician. I've had those since 2009 (at least) with zero changes, which I knew because I am being monitored for metastasis to the lungs from my sarcoma - but that's an example of what else (other than heart health) might show up in the test I suggested he had.)

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