Trump says he got a ‘perfect’ MRI scan during Walter Reed visit and he’d ‘love’ a third term: Live updates

Trump confirms he had an MRI but won’t say what it was for

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President Donald Trump boasted about undergoing a “perfect” MRI scan during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center earlier this month.

“I did. I got an MRI. It was perfect,” he told reporters on Air Force One Monday as he traveled to Japan.

Pressed further on what the scan was taken for, the president replied: “You can ask the doctors.”

Also on board, Trump labeled House Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “low IQ” before suggesting she take the “very hard” cognitive tests that he passed.

“If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed,” he said, before describing the test itself. “Those are very hard… The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”

Trump has previously bragged about his medical exams.

Notably, in 2020, he told reporters that he passed a test in which he was asked to remember “person, woman, man, camera, TV.”

Thousands of flights delayed Monday amid staffing shortages due to shutdown

Thousands of flights were delayed and hundreds more were canceled on Monday as the shutdown drags into the fourth week.

According to FlightAware, 3,658 flights were delayed and 494 were canceled on Monday amid air traffic controller shortages due to the shutdown.

There were 22 “staffing triggers” over the weekend, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told Fox News Sunday.

“That’s a sign that the controllers are wearing thin,” he warned.

Air traffic controllers are due to miss their first full paycheck on October 28 if Congress doesn’t end the stalemate.

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 20:15

Duffy threatens to pull another $160M from California for issuing commercial driver’s license to non-citizens

U.S. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy has threatened to pull $160 million from California, claiming the state is illegally issuing commercial drivers licenses to non-citizens.

“Gavin Newsom cares more about giving illegals commercial drivers licenses than he does citizens of his own state and the safety of Americans. It’s shameful,” Duffy said, speaking to FOX News’ Sunday Morning Futures.

“He’s been lying about what he’s been doing and we’re going to fight tooth and nail to make sure we hold states like California accountable.”

Duffy added that he would also be pulling California’s ability to issue commercial driver’s licenses.

It comes after the Transportation Department last month tightened up restrictions over issuing commercial licenses to non-citizens, including the possession of employment-based visas and being subject to a mandatory federal immigration status check.

Mike Bedigan has the latest.

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 20:00

WATCH: Biden says America depends on a presidency with limited power

Biden says America depends on a presidency with limited power

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 19:40

Melania Trump is distancing herself from the president’s East Wing demolition: report

First Lady Melania Trump privately expressed disquiet about President Donald Trump’s plans to demolish the East Wing of the White House to make way for his lavish new ballroom, according to a report.

The president’s wife “raised concerns about tearing down the East Wing” and “told associates it wasn’t her project” when she was asked about the drastic redevelopment, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed administration officials.

The Independent has reached out to the White House for comment.

Spokesperson Davis Ingle told the WSJ: “President Trump is a builder at heart. Make no mistake: the newly improved East Wing and brand new ballroom will make the People’s House more useful and beautiful for generations of presidents, and Americans, to come.”

Joe Sommerlad has the story.

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 19:30

Democrats are slamming Johnson after he claimed GOP isn’t ‘in charge of government’

Democrats are taking aim at House Speaker Mike Johnson after he claimed that Republicans don’t control the government as the shutdown drags into the fourth week.

“Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, ‘Republicans are in charge of government.’ We aren’t!” he said at his daily press conference on Monday.

He clarified that in the Senate, Republicans need 60 votes to pass the spending bill, but lack a “bare majority.”

“It takes 60 votes in the Senate, and Democrats have voted again and again to keep it shut down — hurting families, workers, and taxpayers across the country,” Johnson later wrote on X.

Democrats swiftly slammed his comments Monday.

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 19:20

DHS compares immigrants to the parasitic alien villains in the Halo video games

The Department of Homeland Security likened immigrants to parasites known as “the Flood” in Halo video games in a disturbing social media post.

“Finishing this fight,” the DHS wrote on X Monday, alongside an illustration resembling the video game. It depicts someone in military gear, equipped with a firearm, riding in a fictional armored fighting vehicle.

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 19:10

Democrat says ‘no kings in America’ after Trump refuses to rule out third term run

President Donald Trump once again refused to rule out running for a third term — this time on Air Force One — despite the Constitution barring anyone from serving more than two terms.

“I haven’t really thought about it. We have some very good people as you know, but I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had,” the president told reporters Monday. “I would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever.”

Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray replied to a clip of Trump, writing: “There are NO KINGS in America—our Constitution is very clear that no president can serve more than 2 terms.”

“This is the LAW, not a suggestion, and no wannabe dictator can change that.”

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 19:00

AOC snaps back after Trump calls her ‘low IQ’

President Donald Trump challenged New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to take a cognitive test, calling her “low IQ.”

“If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed,” he told reporters on Air Force One Monday.

The New York Democrat fired back, writing back on X: “Out of curiosity, did those doctors ask you to draw a clock by any chance? Was that part hard for you, too? Asking for 340 million people.”

Clock drawings is a method used to screen for dementia, according to VeryWell Health.

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 18:50

Glenn Beck says Trump told him the real reasons for the dramatic remodeling of the White House

Conservative anchor Glenn Beck claims that Donald Trump told him the real reason behind his controversial changes and expansion of the White House, amid criticism over the drastic remodeling project.

“It’s not because he likes gold; he’s doing it to project power and wealth,” Beck said, speaking on a recent episode of The Glenn Beck Show.

The president’s plans for the historic East Wing, which has been partly demolished to make way for a lavish new $300 million ballroom, has been condemned by many, with First Lady Melania even having reportedly expressed disquiet.

Mike Bedigan has the story.

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 18:40

GOP Senator denounces Trump administration’s strikes against ‘narco-terrorists’

A Republican senator called the Trump administration’s recent strikes against suspected drug-carrying boats, which have killed dozens, “wrong.”

“The Constitution says when you go to war, Congress has to vote on it,” Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul told “Fox News Sunday.”

“The drug war or… the crime war has typically been something we do through law enforcement. So far they’ve alleged these people are drug dealers. No one’s said their name, no one’s said what evidence, no one’s said whether they’re armed,” he said.

“At this point, I would call them extrajudicial killings,” he added. “It’s wrong.”

The U.S. has carried out at least 10 strikes against alleged “narco-terrorists” since last month, killing more than 40 people.

Kelly Rissman27 October 2025 18:25

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