Jon Stewart, the host of the “Daily Show,” expressed skepticism over President Donald Trump’s claim that he was unaware of which part of his body was examined during an MRI in October.
“That’s not physically possible to have no idea. It’s not possible,” Stewart remarked on Monday. “Would you say to the doctor, ‘No, no, no, don’t tell me! I want to find out at my MRI reveal party?'”
Stewart humorously mimicked a celebration with confetti, exclaiming, “Oh, it’s the lymph nodes!”
“For God’s sakes, man, were you not curious at all? When they laid you down in a tube for a half an hour to 45 minutes, you didn’t want to know what they might be doing?” Stewart questioned. “Or did you just think to yourself, ‘What a loud tanning bed.'”
Trump claimed he didn’t know which part of his body was scanned, but insisted that the result was “perfect.”
Stewart found this assertion equally implausible. “So you didn’t even know what they scanned, but you got a perfect score?” he quipped. “Because by the way, that’s how they score the MRIs: You either get a big stamp, ‘Perfect,’ or you get, in red ink, ‘See me.'”
Trump also maintained that the MRI did not examine his brain as he had already “aced” a cognitive test.
“Did you ace it?” Stewart jokingly inquired. “Or is, perhaps, the cognitive test knowing what part of your body was scanned? Maybe that was the test.”
The White House later clarified that Trump had undergone cardiovascular and abdominal imaging as a preventive measure, and the results were deemed “perfectly normal.”
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