January 19, 2018
54,126
1,778
520
4.25%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
5:12Now PlayingEarlier this week, the results of Donald Trump’s yearly physical were presented to the public during a press conference by the performing doctor, where he claimed that the president is in near perfect health, and with exercise and a proper diet he could even “live to be 200 years old.” A large part of the public didn’t buy these results, and chief among the doubters are independent cardiologists who have a better understanding of what the numbers presented to the public actually mean. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what non-biased doctors are saying about the President’s health.
Ring of Fire needs your help! Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!
Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content!
Earlier this week, Dr. Ronnie Jackson, the physician who performed Donald Trump's physical last week got up in front of reporters at a press conference and talked about the fact that Donald Trump is in perfect health. He is great, and even according to the doctor during this press conference with the right diet and exercise, Donald Trump could possibly even live to be 200 years old. Now, he said that statement with a smile, but when you're a medical professional talking about somebody's future, you don't tell them you could potentially live to be 200 years old unless you're a complete quack.
I don't typically make it a practice to undercut the opinion of respected physicians in the United States, but I will say, and I watched that press conference, that it was almost impossible to believe a single word that Dr. Ronnie Jackson said in that press conference. He continued to stumble over his words, he stuttered, he stammered, he stopped. He kept looking off to the side. Any body language expert in the world will tell you that those were the actions of a man who is not telling the truth. Every single move he made, every look off to the side, the "Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh." That's not the way a person telling the truth typically behaves.
Now, you could argue that Jackson was doing this because he was nervous. Well, I've seen plenty of doctors get up and give speeches in front of thousands of people who've never done it before and do it without a hitch. Maybe Jackson's different, but when we're talking about a doctor who's treated other Presidents of the United States before, I don't think it's the kind of guy who gets his nerves easily rattled, so I don't buy the excuse that maybe he was just nervous. The reason I'm saying all of this about Jackson's press conference is because after the press conference once he talked about Donald Trump's numbers, like his LDL numbers, actual respectable physicians came out and disagreed with what Dr. Ronnie Jackson had to say about Donald Trump's overall health. I'm not talking about the girth or conspiracy that he's fatter than the doctor said, although, I mean, let's face it.
What I'm talking about is the state of Donald Trump's heart. And yes, it's hard for some of us to believe the man actually does have a heart. According to actual cardiologists who listened to the numbers and understand what they mean, Donald Trump is in far worse shape than the doctor at that press conference let on. According to Donald Trump's own medical records, he had a score of 133 on his calcium test within his heart, which is used to determined how calcified your arteries have become, which determines your risk of heart attack. In 2009, his number was 34. 2013, four years later, that number was 98. And now, five years later, four and a half years later it is 133. Doctors consider anything over 100 to be ... put you at medium to high risk of suffering a heart attack within the next three years because your arteries are so calcified.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta at CNN says that this in indicative of a common form of heart disease that most men have. Cardiologists disagree and say that this is arteriosclerosis, and that his arteries are hardening, which makes it more likely that blood flow to the heart will stop. Two slightly different things, but either way, the general consensus is that Donald Trump is not in perfect health as we've been told and that there is a serious problem with his heart. His doctor even upped his cholesterol medication to help bring those numbers back down, and some doctors say that the dosage he put him on is indicative that the number is not in fact 133, but would be well over 200, which means that he is at imminent risk of having a heart attack at any moment. The bottom line is this, and I actually said this last week before Donald Trump even had his physical.
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.