Dec. 29, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: A medical commenter I trust at the Naked Capitalism blog, IM Doc, recently wrote that he believes Donald Trump has white matter disease. This is what he wrote on Dec. 16 in the “Links”: “As I have been saying … he has white matter disease.
“Again, why did they not release the MRI results of the brain? It was assuredly done with the whole body MRI. It is an absolutely critical piece of evidence. The absence of the MRI brain in that report sticks out like a sore thumb. By not releasing it, they are literally screaming “We are hiding something.” We are going to certainly all see what I am talking about over the next little while … “He does not have standard issue dementia. He almost assuredly has white matter disease. The foundational symptoms of this are behavioral. The underlying personality they have had for their lives becomes profoundly magnified. They completely lose their filter. There are memory issues but not like Alzheimers, etc. They are perfectly able to care for and feed themselves. But their family often has a tendency to stuff them in the attic. They say the most inappropriate things at the most inopportune times. They will often ruminate about the good old days. Their entire conversation is stuff they have done in the 1950s – and so much of the time focuses on perceived slights.
“He is a textbook case. He most certainly does not have dementia in any way shape or form. This is not a Biden scenario. But that being said, it is beginning to look like we are all going to find out that these patients that have this problem are not at all suitable for POTUS…” Congress should insist on seeing the president’s brain MRI, and remove him from office if he has white matter disease. EDWARD QUBAIN Rockbridge County
