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LetMyPeopleVote

(175,424 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 05:20 PM 18 hrs ago

'Needs to be evaluated': Ex-White House cardiologist highlights worrying Trump health sign

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'Needs to be evaluated': Ex-White House cardiologist highlights worrying Trump health sign - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/trump-health...

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A former White House cardiologist says Donald Trump "needs to be evaluated" after a recent appearance in the Oval Office.

The president was seen surrounded by a group in the office that included Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr., and Republican Party representative Ben Carson. Despite the large crowd around him, Trump was spotted seemingly falling asleep as he signed off on a policy to bring whole milk back into schools.

A clip of Trump seemingly closing his eyes and nodding slightly has gone viral on X, and Jonathan Reiner believes it is a sign the president needs a check up. Reiner, the former cardiologist to Vice President Dick Cheney, took to X and said an evaluation of the current president is necessary.

He wrote, "The president seems to be struggling with excessive daytime somnolence. Repeatedly falling asleep with a dozen people surrounding your desk is not normal. It needs to be evaluated."

It comes as a separate medical expert, Professor Bruce Davidson of Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, suggested Trump may have had a stroke.

He said, "My impression is that President Trump has had a stroke, and I think there's several lines of evidence supporting that. I think his stroke was on the left side of the brain, which controls the right side of the body." On The Court of History, Davidson was asked what formed his belief about the president's health.
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'Needs to be evaluated': Ex-White House cardiologist highlights worrying Trump health sign (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 18 hrs ago OP
Don't treat him. Let him die leftstreet 18 hrs ago #1
"Worrying health sign" PatSeg 18 hrs ago #2
... SheltieLover 17 hrs ago #7
Encouraging might be a better expression for me. House of Roberts 17 hrs ago #8
Yeah, I like that adjective better PatSeg 16 hrs ago #12
"Worrying"?? No, not me. Mildly impatient perhaps, but only worried if it stretches on much longer. FadedMullet 18 hrs ago #3
Fake news. SergeStorms 18 hrs ago #4
Absolutely. Chellee 15 hrs ago #16
I would expect that Reiner knows his stuff. hamsterjill 18 hrs ago #5
Cheney was just too evil to die. travelingthrulife 17 hrs ago #9
So Trump will be with us indefinitely, then. hamsterjill 16 hrs ago #14
Maybe Trump should resign and join the band, Asleep At The Wheel. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 18 hrs ago #6
He's been evaluated, but they will never admit the truth if it's bad. tanyev 17 hrs ago #10
whatever is physically wrong with him Skittles 17 hrs ago #11
Or bring him a lot more McDonald's EdmondDantes_ 16 hrs ago #13
I'm sure he has been told exactly what's wrong with him newdeal2 16 hrs ago #15

House of Roberts

(6,414 posts)
8. Encouraging might be a better expression for me.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:26 PM
17 hrs ago

He doesn't even have to die, just be incapacitated enough to get him out of office. I'm interested in seeing how big a fuckup Vance can be.

PatSeg

(52,276 posts)
12. Yeah, I like that adjective better
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 07:31 PM
16 hrs ago

I am so exhausted. I wish the Rapture would just come already and take all these misfits and miscreants to "heaven". I don't think any kind of earthly rehabilitation is possible for most of them.

FadedMullet

(735 posts)
3. "Worrying"?? No, not me. Mildly impatient perhaps, but only worried if it stretches on much longer.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 05:25 PM
18 hrs ago

SergeStorms

(20,026 posts)
4. Fake news.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 05:29 PM
18 hrs ago

He's the most healthy president in the history of president's.

Don't believe him, Donald! It sounds like a bunch of "woke" gibberish to me. 😉

Chellee

(2,286 posts)
16. Absolutely.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:29 PM
15 hrs ago

He definitely doesn't need to see medical professionals about this. As a matter of fact, he's such a manly man he shouldn't accept help even if he falls over and starts twitching.

It's not twitching, it's floor dancing. It's the newest thing, nobody did it before him. You're such a trailblazer, Donald! Many people are saying that. Remember, not getting medical treatment makes you a tough guy, a real man's man. Fred Sr. would never.

hamsterjill

(17,101 posts)
5. I would expect that Reiner knows his stuff.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 05:37 PM
18 hrs ago

If he was Cheney's cardiologist, all I can say is "damn, he must be pretty good!!!". Look how long Dick Cheney survived.

I have no sympathy for Trump. I honestly think he's the first person in my almost 70 years on this earth that I cannot muster even the slightest bit of compassion for. I believe that feeling is a self-defense mechanism. I will feel safer if he can no longer cause harm. That seems to be his intended purpose. Everything he touches dies.

tanyev

(48,714 posts)
10. He's been evaluated, but they will never admit the truth if it's bad.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:45 PM
17 hrs ago

Miller and Vought have probably been diligently studying Weekend at Bernie’s.

Just in case.

newdeal2

(4,848 posts)
15. I'm sure he has been told exactly what's wrong with him
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 07:39 PM
16 hrs ago

But he thinks he is smarter than doctors and ignores their advise. He won’t get better, oh well…

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