The White House confirmed Tuesday that the president would not travel to Camp David for a scheduled cabinet meeting on the escalating war with Iran. The cancellation came hours after an unannounced visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Aides described the visit as part of a new six-month physical cycle.
Dickhead Donny had been set to convene his full cabinet at the presidential retreat to discuss recent U.S. strikes in the Strait of Hormuz, ceasefire negotiations, and the nuclear deal. The meeting was to have been his first at Camp David since he invited the Taliban there on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. This time, however, the urgency of a dental cleaning and a torso MRI intervened.
The president posted on social media that he was in 'great shape' and that the hospital visit had been 'very successful.' Administration officials said the evaluation included a detailed MRI of his heart and abdomen. No full-body scan was performed, which one radiologist called 'odd' and 'not tied to any existing screening guideline.'
'The president decided to move his annual physical to a six-month schedule as a nod to his age,' said a White House spokesperson. 'The dental work was routine. Rescheduling the Camp David trip was a matter of convenience.' The spokesperson declined to say whether the MRI results would be released.
Medical experts outside the administration noted that there is no clinical protocol recommending screening MRIs of the abdomen and heart for asymptomatic individuals. 'You just don't do it,' said a senior radiologist at a major teaching hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect the president's dignity. 'And if you did, you wouldn't then cancel a meeting about whether to launch airstrikes.'
The cancelled summit left the cabinet without a forum to discuss Iran's recent disruption of commercial shipping. The Pentagon has not commented on the delay. The dental work, aides said, involved a single filling, which was described as 'standard, really, for a man who just postponed deciding whether to escalate a foreign war.'
