they couldn t say. it was routine, planned, interim check, and there was nothing about it that suggested that this was nothing. trump himself claimed he went there first and foremost to visit a great family of a young man under major surgery, and that it was for phase one of his yearly physical. and he is just not to be believed. so now stephanie grisham, trump s former press secretary who notably never met with the press and we got to keep saying that because she was somewhat symbolic of how lousy they did the job there. but she does have details in this new book titled i ll take your questions now, which is ironic, right? in the book, grisham heavily implies that trump s trip was for a routine colonoscopy. so what? that s your big deal and that s the secret you had to know? she doesn t use the term itself. she describes what he underwent as a common procedure during which a patient is put under. she also notes bush 43 got the same one while in office.
most of the time i don t care why trumpers lie by omission or comission. but we learned something tonight that i think is instructive of a point that should matter to leaders going forward. president trump made this sudden visit to water reed medical center in 2019 and it spooked us all because they wouldn t tell us. you may recall the speculation on the state of his health. he was 73, clinically obese, heart disease, and the administration would say that they couldn t say. it was routine, planned, interim check, and there was nothing about it that suggested that