Donald Trump is not in good health, despite his constant bragging about how he’s the most vigorous person ever elected president of the United States.
And now a respected doctor says there’s definitive video proof that Trump has had at least one stroke over the past six months.
Professor Bruce Davidson of Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, in Spokane, Washington, explained his reasoning to Lincoln biographer Sidney Blumenthal and Princeton historian Sean Wilentz on their podcast, The Court of History.
“My impression is that President Trump has had a stroke, and I think there’s several lines of evidence supporting that. I think his stroke was on the left side of the brain, which controls the right side of the body.”
Davidson continued, “I think the stroke was six months ago or more, earlier in 2025. There’s video of him shuffling his feet, which is not what we’d seen him [doing], striding on the golf course … previously. We’ve seen him holding his right hand in his left, cradling. And earlier in the year, in 2025, he was garbling words, which he didn’t do previously, and which he’s improved upon more recently. And he’s also had marked episodes that have been noticed of daytime, excessive sleepiness, — medical term, hypersomnolence — which is characteristic of many patients after they’ve had a stroke. … Most recently, there was video of him walking down the stairs from Air Force One, holding the banister with his left hand, although he’s right-handed, and all of this is consistent with having had a stroke on the left side of his brain. A stroke is an area of infarction. It’s an area of dead tissue.”
The professor noted that Trump’s behavior over the past few months also points to a major health issue.
“People who … have a stroke, it’s a very serious, concerning, life-threatening, upsetting, scary thing, and people react in different ways. Some people respond with humility, grateful to be alive and viewing life as precious. Others become, as they improve, positively euphoric, that, ‘I was at the cliff of death, and now I’m back,’ and and some view it as, ‘That was my chance to die, and I didn’t, and now I’m going to do everything I wanted to do, because the next one may be fatal.”
In Trump’s case, his numerous policy announcements, military actions, prosecution of his perceived enemies, and repeated lashing out in public appearances have been the subject of great discussion here in the U.S. and abroad.
And then there’s a telling admission from Trump, Davidson added.
A few weeks ago, Trump said during an interview that he was taking 325 mg. of aspirin each day, bragging to the Wall Street Journal, “They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”
According to Davidson, the only people who are advised to take such a massive dose of aspirin are those who’ve already had a stroke.
“The instruction to take one full aspirin, 325 milligrams daily, is solely, only for prevention of recurrent repeat stroke after partial 50 percent or more blockage, occlusion of a large vessel in the brain. It’s not recommended for anything for the heart, and we were told that President Trump’s chest CT scan was unremarkable, was fine.”
As for the revelation from Trump that his doctors had also given him an MRI, though he later insisted it had merely been a CT scan, Davidson explained.
“A CT scan of the chest takes three or four minutes, and when you add the abdomen, that’s another three or four minutes. An MRI is what we use to most carefully image the brain. You can image the brain pretty well with a CT scan, and that’s emergency imaging of the brain, because it’s more available, but an MRI gives you far more detail, and an MRI takes a minimum of 20 minutes, and they put this over your head, and it’s extremely noisy, it’s a banging sound, and they put headphones to block the sounds. So there is no mistaking an MRI for CT. And when President Trump said he had an MRI, he undoubtedly did. Now we do MRIs of the spine, of bone and joints. But that’s not what he was talking about when he talked about cognitive testing. So I think it’s, it’s certainly clear that did not sound like a misspeaking, that he had an MRI of his brain and he had CT, surveillance, CAT scans of his chest and abdomen.”
The doctor added that he doesn’t think Trump is physically unfit for office just yet, but needs to be honest with the American people about his health.
“There is no need to get all exercised about that issue. But I think it’d be good for the public to be informed. That’s just the nature of my view of the way I was trained in elementary and junior high school about democracy,” he said.
Considering that Trump doesn’t have an honest bone in his failing body, none of us should hold our breath waiting for him to tell the truth.
