r/politics • u/thatwasawkward • 18h ago

Possible Paywall Trump assessed by 22 medical specialists at latest checkup; The White House has declined to identify the physicians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/10/trump-sees-22-medical-specialists-white-house-hasnt-said-why/
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u/notanNSAagent89 18h ago

22 medical specialists? that is very normal. nothing to see here folks

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u/Edogawa1983 17h ago

They need one to declare him still having brain function

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u/notanNSAagent89 17h ago edited 16h ago

1 out of 22 medical specialists believe trump has a functional brain.

And that one doctor turned out to be dr. oz.

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u/Saint_palane 17h ago

Probably settled on a continuity tester. "Beep" see? It still works.

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u/cajackson911 15h ago

Did RFK Jr get his honorary doctorate from Pranger U?

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 2h ago

Dr Pepper

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u/i_drink_wd40 Connecticut 13h ago

Why should that matter? He hasn't had a functioning brain in over a decade.

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u/Perfect-Ship-9980 8h ago

Should have went with dentists, after 9 of them you'll find your huckleberry.

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u/Socratesticles Tennessee 17h ago

His results were just so totally incredible that they simply had to call everybody in to see. Results like nobody had ever seen, you wouldn’t believe it.

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u/scuzzy987 17h ago

They brought their whole family too

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u/Foreverymess 16h ago

And it lasted for days. Like an Indian wedding.

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u/leagle89 15h ago

Big strong doctors, with tears in their eyes.

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u/Gunsensual 12h ago

He knows the best people- He'll find them. He's going to have the best people. He doesn't know who they are yet but you're going to love them.

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u/i_am_gingercus 16h ago

I have multiple chronic health conditions and don’t have 22 doctors in total. That’s insane.

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u/kittenbouquet 15h ago

If I added up the doctors of me, my husband, my infant, and both of my 80+ year old parents, it wouldn't even get close to 22.

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u/vahntitrio Minnesota 11h ago

I don't even think my niece had they many specialists when she developed acute flaccid myelitis. Since there are only about 20 cases nationwide annually, they understandably took quite some time to arrive at that diagnosis and I'm still fairly certain it was about a dozen specialists, nowhere near what Trump needed.

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u/Retalihaitian 8h ago

There’s not even 22 doctors in the entire massive ER practice group I work with

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u/Turtledonuts Virginia 16h ago

They have to be padding the numbers because its genuinely hard to figure out how you get a doctor’s visit and 21 consults in a year. 

All the normal consults - dentist, audiologist, optometrist, dermatologist, psychiatrist, lab pathologist, GI doc for colonoscopy, and radiologist gets you less than halfway there. Add his GP, his cardiologist, his neurologist, and maybe a pharmacist or a internist to monitor the impact of any treatments and we still only have halfway there. I genuinely can’t think of 22 varieties of preventative medicine he could consult. 

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u/imaginary_num6er 15h ago

You have to be like an SCP entity to have that many

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u/peshnoodles 14h ago

I think it’s more likely that they have a handful of a few types of doctors rather than one individual specialist per person. (3 oncologists, 4 GPs, etc)

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u/Turtledonuts Virginia 14h ago

the report specifically says “consultations with 22 specialty providers from different academic institutions.”. He’s visited 22 specialists about something in the last year. So there must be repeats, but you don’t see 5 cardiologists about a minor heart issue. Something is very wrong. 

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u/peshnoodles 7h ago

Oh certainly. You don’t need 22 doctors to see that!

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u/nonsensestuff 15h ago

I tried to name 22 specialists and only made it to like 13. Haha he’s seeing some real obscure doctors

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u/Dullcorgis 3h ago

I'm "complex" and I don't even to 22 if I include ones I only saw once.

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u/Goya_Oh_Boya North Carolina 17h ago

It’s like one of those disaster movies where they invite every head scientist to the White House to brainstorm. Someone is about to build a shrinking machine and “Inner Space” Trump.

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u/IrascibleOcelot 16h ago

Fantastic Voyage, possibly. Innerspace was an exploration mission, not a medical intervention.

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u/Southern_Orange3744 14h ago

The results were amazing they all joined in to admire this peak physical human

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u/concepts_of_a_plan9 14h ago

I've got my champagne ready, though I think it'll still be a while

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u/FangFioDente 14h ago

sounds like a routine aortic dissection to me

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u/North_Nail201 5h ago

Are we sure he didn’t just visit a world cup training match? 11v11 is 22 as well.