“Each day Present” host Jon Stewart isn’t shopping for President Donald Trump’s declare that he had no concept which a part of his physique was examined when he had an MRI check in October.
“That’s not bodily potential, to don’t know. It’s not potential,” Stewart mentioned on Monday. “Would you say to the physician, ‘No, no, no, don’t inform me! I need to discover out at my MRI reveal get together?’”
Stewart mimicked coming out the confetti.
“Oh, it’s the lymph nodes!” he mentioned in mock celebration.
“For God’s sakes, man, have been you not curious in any respect? After they laid you down in a tube, for a half an hour to 45 minutes, you didn’t need to know what they is likely to be doing?” Stewart requested. “Or did you simply assume to your self, ‘What a loud tanning mattress.’”
Trump mentioned that whereas he didn’t know which a part of his physique was scanned, the end result was “good.”
Stewart discovered that simply as unlikely.
“So that you didn’t even know what they scanned, however you bought an ideal rating?” he requested. “As a result of by the way in which, that’s how they rating the MRIs: You both get a giant stamp, ‘Good,’ otherwise you get, in pink ink, ‘See me.’”
Trump additionally insisted the MRI didn’t look at his mind as a result of he had already “aced” a cognitive check.
“Did you ace it?” Stewart requested. “Or is, maybe, the cognitive check understanding what a part of your physique was scanned? Perhaps that was the check.”
The White Home later mentioned Trump had acquired cardiovascular and stomach imaging as a “preventative” measure and that these photographs have been “completely regular.”
See extra in Stewart’s Monday evening monologue: