Trump ROCKED by alarming medical assessment

All right.An actual doctor, not a commentator, not a chiropractor, not a massage therapist.An actual physician went on CNN to address Donald Trump's third physical in 13 months.And I got to tell you, it's not good.It's not good at all.And this medical assessment was so concerning.

that Dr. Jonathan Reiner was immediately invited back on to other shows to talk in more detail about what's going on.So let's just play it.Let's listen and then let's discuss.

I do want to see this during this examination, a credible explanation for his visible health concerns.His bruising, which initially was described as due to his handshaking, which is not credible.His severe edema in his ankles.which was described as chronic venous insufficiency, when just three months before, one year ago, his examination disclosed that he had no edema, which would then make it acute venous insufficiency, which is an entirely different thing.And finally, the president has severe daytime somnolence.He falls asleep Very awful.

He's fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the Cabinet Room.And it was concerned yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Irwinton National Cemetery during Memorial Day Conservances.And chronic insomnia is a severe illness.It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, a decrease in cognitive effects in older people.It's equivalent to about increasing your age by about three and a half years.It increases your cardiac risk of having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure.

And it can produce a decline in your sort of mental functions likeit could increase depression, anxiety.So it's a it's a real problem.And the president appears to struggle to stay awake during the day.And I'd like to hear what the White House has done to evaluate why the president has this increased daytime somnolence.

So listen, we didn't get any of those answers initially.And Dr. Reiner, an actual physician, is laying it out.bruising with explanations that don't make sense.Swollen ankles with explanations that don't make sense.Severe daytime daytime somnolence, falling asleep in public all the time and chronic insomnia.Trump is known to when he sleeps well, to sleep four to five hours a night.

And reportedly now he's often getting two to three hours of sleep.That's all very bad.So CNN brings Jonathan Reiner back on a little bit later in the day and they want to dig more deeply.And the more that Reiner weighs in on what we know and what we don't know, the worse it seems about Donald Trump.

So I want to zero in on something you said, which was excessive daytime somnolence, which I'm assuming is the dozing off as we've the apparent dozing off.I just want to be clear about what we've seen because he has appeared to doze off in White House events.And when asked about a December cabinet meeting where the president's eyes were closed for a prolonged period of time, multiple times, the press secretary maintained that Trump had been listening attentively and running the entire three -hour marathon cabinet meeting.Talk to us about that.I mean, I'm not a medical expert, but when I'm thinking of someone who's almost 80, I would think of a little dozing off here there to maybe be kind of normal.Is that not normal?

Well, we've seen the president appear to rest his eyes when someone is talking directly to him, and that is distinctly abnormal.It's unusual to be surrounded by people in the Oval Office and you fall asleep.

And you know who agrees with that?Trump.Trump made this huge deal on The Andrew Schultz Show and others going this Biden, the situations he can fall asleep in like he's at the beach.It's like, OK, the beach.A lot of people sleep at the beach.Not that many people sleep in the Oval Office during meetings.

We know the president is up late at night using social media.That's that's not really in question.And it may be something as simple as he just has poor sleep hygiene and when we when we're trying to get people to sleep better we tell them not to do any work in the bedroom to put down put down you know their their phones try and get a consistent time to go to sleep you know the president has incredible demands on his time i mean and you know he's almost 80 years old and even more reason for the president to get some rest insomnia is a dangerous thing for an older person.It increases the risk of cardiac events.It increases hypertension.It increases the risk of dementia and depression.

And often when an older person doesn't feel right, one of the first questions we ask them is, tell me about your sleep.How much sleep are you getting?And if you've ever seen an older person in a hospital where it looks like they're losing it, It's often because it's very hard to sleep in hospitals.So every American should want this president to to work efficiently.

And if I think everybody understands it.And then finally, and I found this very interesting, Dr. Reiner does address this issue of we've gone from annual physicals, which were happening so often that now they're calling them six month physicals.And that hasn't really been explained.

What's also interesting is that in many of these yearly physical exams,much of this evaluation is done in advance of the day where the president actually goes to Walter Reed.So we should have a readout about this pretty soon.Often his labs are pre -tested.So the White House often can generate a readout very quickly.One other interesting thing I noted was when the president when he was leaving, Walter Reed posted on social media that he had a perfect physical.

He called it his six -month physical.So I guess, you know, what we're changing now from as a routine yearly physical for a president to, I guess, perhaps as a nod to his his age, it looks like this president will undergo a six month cycle for evaluations.

And what's funny is even that doesn't really cover it, because, again, I know you know these numbers by now.It's been three and 13 months.That's a physical every four and a third months.plus three dental visits.So Dr. Jonathan Reiner is a physician and he's alarmed by the very same things we're alarmed by.I'm not a doctor.

I speak to doctors.They go.The hand bruising explanation doesn't make sense.Jonathan Reiner agrees.They say the swollen ankles are chronic venous insufficiency.It's a benign chronic condition.

Dr. Jonathan Reiner goes, yeah, but he didn't have it as recently as a couple of physicals ago, which is not that much time because they're happening so frequently.That suggests that this would be acute swelling, acute tree trunk ankles, not chronic benign.That's a different condition.And he's now going every six months.Wait a second.When was that change announced?

Why?Dr. Jonathan Reiner agrees.So the more physicals Trump seems to have to reduce concern, it increases concern.And the more Trump says I passed the cognitive test, the more we go, why is he getting cognitively tested so much?And on top of all of this and this gets difficult now, we have yet another symptom that dozens of you wrote to me about.I want to talk They don't a at David Pakman.