Transcript of Former White House Doctor Raises New Questions About Trump's Health

It is not looking good for Donald. How much longer will this last? Is it finally happening? Donald Trump is cognitively and physically declining before our eyes rapidly. And this past week it got even worse, if it was even possible to get worse. And it did. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a world-renowned cardiologist who had been an advisor to the White House for 3 decades, just came out with an op-ed for the New York Times this past week, and here's what it was called: I Was Dick Cheney's Cardiologist. Trump Has Not Looked Well, and We Should Know Why. Now, Dr. Jonathan Reiner also discusses that Congress should invoke the 25th Amendment, and he reminds us all that in the 25th Amendment, it provides a mechanism where if the cabinet doesn't do its job, that Congress can step in and provide a process for invoking the 25th Amendment. And that's precisely what Jamie Raskin said that he will likely do when the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives. I'll talk about Dr. Jonathan Reiner's op-ed in just a moment. But in Iran, they clearly recognize Donald Trump's cognitive and physical decline. They're posting images like this. The reason for Trump's overly puffy pants has been identified, and they show this photo right here.

Now, Iranian social media accounts are also posting Donald Trump's recent stop in Nassau County where he gave a completely deranged speech where Trump claims that he wants to annex the Strait of Hormuz for the United States. And he started talking about how there are all these young little girls at the White House who thank him, all these beautiful young girls who say, please help me, please help me, Donald. It was a really sickening appearance that Donald Trump made in Nassau County. But what the Iranian social media accounts are also pointing out is that it appeared Donald Trump was wearing an adult diaper or something of that nature. Here's what the Iranian accounts were posting. He can't even control his own bowels, the Iranian social media accounts state. Yet he talks about controlling the Strait of Hormuz. Idiot is what they say here. Let's play this clip. Now, of course, we've seen all of the photos and videos of Donald Trump falling asleep at the various, uh, cabinet meetings. He falls asleep at Camp David. He falls asleep always at the Oval Office. He's almost always falling asleep during the day when he's not the person doing the talking at the various meetings where we see him.

Now, talk about Dr. Jonathan Reiner's op-ed in a moment, but the White House is now going after Dr. Jonathan Reiner. They say, uh, This is a statement that was just issued from the White House. Jonathan Reiner is an asshat engaging in armchair diagnosis for political purpose. He is a disgrace to the medical profession. The White House goes on to say President Trump is the sharpest, most accessible, and energetic president in American history. Yeah, I think that that's not true. I think that y'all lie about everything. Let's take a look at Dr. Jonathan Reiner's op-ed here. It's called I Was Dick Cheney's Cardiologist. And Trump has not looked well, and we should know why. And it says the 25th Amendment to the Constitution allows for the best solution to Donald Trump's cognitive and physical decline. It permits Congress to establish a panel outside the executive branch to assess the health and fitness of the president. In April of this year, Representative Jamie Raskin introduced a bill to create a congressional commission that would do just that. Ideally, such a panel would empowered to review data from a routine presidential physical examination, as well as assessments performed when medical concerns emerge.

If such commissions were in place today, these are some of the medical questions it would clarify concerning Trump's health. The American people deserve answers to all of them. I'll tell you what he said in just a moment, but just to remind you, when you look at the 25th Amendment, the 25th Amendment provides for a process whereby Congress can create a path in order for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, that Congress creates a panel. If the cabinet doesn't do it, then Congress can provide its own recommendation in order to remove the president. The president would then have to send a— transmit a letter saying that no, they have their faculties and they are able to serve in the presidency. And then Congress can then challenge that. And then it would require, would require a two-thirds vote of both houses, um, which would be hard to do in the Senate. We'll see what the, uh, composition is in the House of Representatives, but nonetheless, this would provide a process whereby the House can conduct a formal 25th Amendment investigation in addition to impeachment investigations. And this world-renowned cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who again has been an advisor to the White Houses for 3 decades other than the Trump regime White House, is saying that's precisely what needs to be done.

So here was Dr. Jonathan Reiner talking to CNN the end of this week about precisely that. He said the president does not look well at all. Here, play this clip.

I'm concerned when I, when I watched the president, as you outlined, he's had multiple very visible ailments and it's really not hard to see. He's one of the most photographed people ever to hold the office, maybe the most photographed person ever to hold the office of the presidency. You know, he has these really obvious bruises on both hands, uh, that just will not go away. He's had really some very severe swelling in his legs. And maybe most disturbingly to me, for the last several months, he has fallen asleep in the Oval Office and in other very public venues over and over and over again.

And then if you just think about— I don't want to play this clip of Donald Trump just because, um, I just don't want to hear his voice right now, but I'll just read for you the transcript of what he said in Nassau County on Friday. Every day I come to the White House, people are thanking me. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Now, these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls in the White House, they come in. Now, I'm not supposed to say beautiful, but what the hell? These young, These gorgeous, these young, beautiful girls, they want to be safe and they come. Mr. President, I speak to you. Yes. Thank you, sir. Thank you. I said, what, what, why are you thanking me, sir? Because a year and a half ago, I was afraid to leave my apartment. I was afraid to open the door and now I walk to the White House every morning and I have absolutely no fear. Thank you, sir. Now, Donald Trump's own former White House counsel, the main White House lawyer under Trump's first term, Cobb, just said the following on Zetio.

Play this clip.

But the, but the cognitive decline is real. Certainly the country can see that as these, you know, despicable memes, uh, that he, uh, posts, uh, of Obama being arrested in the Oval Office, uh, him in a fighter plane, uh, pouring excrement over, uh, the No King's Day protesters, uh, his phrase yesterday in, uh, criticizing El-Sayed, who was the primary winner in the Michigan Senate race. You know, the kind of things that basically have drained the dignity from the office of the president and demeaned our country around the world. You know, those are, those are, those are signals of serious cognitive decline. You know, he's always been a malignant narcissist, but that narcissism now has no frontal lobe restraints. And, and as, and his sundowning, I mean, is the fact that many of these things happen between 2 and 4 in the morning, you know, and he falls asleep in cabinet meetings and, and other public appearances. You know, all of those are indicative of serious, you know, frontal lobe illness.

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Now back to top cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner. Here's what he has to say about Donald Trump sleeping all the time. Let's play it.

You know, if you come to see me in my clinic and while you're talking to me, I pass out, you'll probably find another doctor. If you had to worry that your pilot in the cockpit was gonna fall asleep during landing or takeoff, you would probably not fly on that airplane. So why is it acceptable in this country at this time, in this perilous time, for the President of the United States to have a really dramatic problem staying awake. During the announcement this week of the executive order changing the vaccine policy in the United States, with Secretary Kennedy literally screaming next to him, speaking very loudly next to him, the president appeared to fall asleep. With the head of NIH on his other side speaking, right by his ear, the president appears to fall asleep. So there are a lot of things that can cause increased daytime somnolence in people. Probably the most common is sleep apnea. If the president has sleep apnea and it's been identified by his team, it's not being adequately treated. And it's just obvious that it's not being adequately treated because if he is sitting at his desk and he is not speaking for 5 minutes, his eyes are closed.

He is not getting enough sleep. And he has to sleep. And untreated sleep apnea can lead to, you know, really important cardiac issues. It can precipitate or worsen cognitive disorders. And we need the president of the United States to function effectively. And it's hard to see him, him doing that when he falls asleep really at a moment's notice.

And here's what he says about Donald Trump's swelling of his legs all of the time. Let's play this clip.

So the issue there was last summer these photographs surfaced of really obvious swelling in the president, in the president's legs. The problem was that 3 months earlier, during his first annual physical exam, his physician, Dr. Barbara Bela, documented that the president had no edema, no swelling in his legs. And then just a few months later, he now has massive swelling, which by definition would now be acute since he didn't have it before. And, and that's a different diagnostic, you know, uh, concern. You know, there are issues, there are cardiac issues, there are kidney issues that can cause that. The president's swelling has been described as chronic venous insufficiency, which is very common. And if he has that, I hope he has that, because that's really a benign issue that you see in older people. But if indeed he didn't have any swelling 3 months before and now he has this what appears to be sort of massive swelling of his legs That's a much bigger concern. But that has not been addressed, you know, by the White House. Really, none of these issues have been adequately addressed. His bruising, his left hand isn't bruising from vigorous handshaking.

And, you know, his daytime somnolence, that was completely, you know, omitted from the president's last physical exam. And it's an apparent finding. I mean, anyone who watches the president can see this. And it's distinctly not normal, but it's become normalized. Oh, the president is just asleep. Yeah, it's not normal, and it really— no, it's not addressed. It's like we're all sort of lobsters in boiling water, right? It's, it's just sort of the bar of what, of what would cause people to say there's an issue has changed because we become sort of inured to it.

Now, Rosie O'Donnell commented as well this week. Here's what she had to say. Let's play it.

If you speak to doctors, and I speak to many doctors, they will tell you that they think he is most definitely suffering from chronic heart failure and dementia. And maybe kidney disease. He's incontinent. He, uh, can't control his bowels, his urine. He's very, very ill. And I don't know that he's going to last till November to the elections that I believe he will try to, um, prevent. I really do. And if you read Project 2025, nothing is, is out of the options for them. They, uh, what they printed there was so harrowing. Was so overwhelming that I thought, if people don't pay attention to this, shame on them.

We also heard from Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker. Here's what Governor Pritzker told Aaron Parnas at the Midas Touch Network and the Parnas Perspective. Let's play it.

Do you believe, based on that, that the president is fit to command America's troops right now?

When you say, is he fit to command? I mean, this is a person who clearly is having mental health challenges. I mean, you can see it every day when he, you know, he sits there at that desk with, you know, 20 people, 30 people around him talking to the press because he can't apparently stand at a podium for a long period of time. This is somebody who says inane things. And, you know, you can't figure out why he's doing it from one moment to the next. He's— and then he, you know, likes to talk about the dementia tests that he's taken, like, like he passed a dementia test. You know, we should all celebrate. He passed a dementia test. He thinks it's, it's some sort of IQ test. It isn't an IQ test. And all I can say is he's not passing the dementia test that all of us have for a president. He's not speaking rationally or acting rationally. So, I mean, I didn't want him to be president because I never thought that he was capable of being commander in chief. And I think he's proving it.

I will also remind you that when Donald Trump was at that NATO summit, yes, the one where Donald Trump left Turkey. And we now find out that he was hiding in a catering container with Natalie Harp, ducking, crouching, because he was afraid that Iran was going to kill him. When Trump arrived, that was Trump exiting. Let's not forget, we all know that now. Let's not forget Trump's arrival and how President Erdoğan of Turkey had to hold Donald Trump and show him where to walk. And we've seen this before. I've shown you the videos of the summit in Alaska with Putin where Trump couldn't walk straight. I showed you Trump with the Japanese Prime Minister, um, and I'll show you over here. This is with Turkey's President Erdoğan. Here, play this clip. And then as Ty Cobb was talking about too, all these bizarre memes that, I mean, Trump's up at all hours just posting these bizarre memes of him and George Washington, of AI memes of him as a pirate, AI memes of him, you know, just the most, just the strangest, most deranged stuff in the world. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers.

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