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Trump Is Not Being Honest About His Health

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The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Saletan give their takes on Donald Trump’s latest visit to Walter Reed, the White House’s growing secrecy around his health, and the bizarre effort by the White House to defend footage of the president appearing to fall asleep during meetings. They discuss Trump’s repeated medical checkups, his confusing answers about MRIs and CAT scans, comparisons to the Biden health debate, and why transparency matters when it comes to the president of the United States.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bork, and I'm here with my partner in crime, Will Salton, who is fresh off of a long weekend looking tanned, ready, healthy, refreshed. You get a lot of sleep well?

0:13.6

I did get a lot of sleep at the end, not at the beginning. How about you, Sam?

0:18.0

No sleep. No sleep at all. I don't sleep anymore. You are the

0:22.1

office yawner. If there's a yawn at Sam. Yeah, I'm like my dad. I can't sleep past like

0:28.4

5 a.m. before waking up. I try to go back to bed. Anyways, we're talking about this stuff because

0:32.7

this video is about sleep, health, and the physical well-being of our president, Donald J. Trump,

0:39.9

who for the third time in 13 months today, Tuesday, which is when we're recording this,

0:45.2

went to Walter Reed for a medical checkup. Now, slightly abnormal to go that often when you're

0:51.7

the president because you have a doctor on premises. First and foremost,

0:54.5

you go to Walter Reed for major imaging and things like that. But, you know, he put out a post

1:01.8

today. He said, just finished my six-month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything

1:08.2

checked out perfectly. Thank you to the great doctors and staff,

1:11.5

heading back to the White House President, DJT. And so there you have it. That's our video.

1:17.3

Trump is good. He's fine. Nothing to discuss here. Will, aren't you happy to know he's in good health?

1:25.6

Yeah, yeah. So forgive me if 10 years later, I assume anything Donald Trump says is false.

1:31.0

What?

1:33.2

Sam, what's that expression?

1:35.2

My results from Walter Reed, anybody's anxiety about my results are answered by my third visit to Walter Reed.

1:44.0

You're raising a few more questions, Donald, by the number of visits you're taking to the

1:49.4

Walter Reed Medical Center.

1:51.8

What do you, I mean, like, who knows what to make of it, right?

1:53.6

It could be, it could be nothing.

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