Why do presidents get annual check-ups - and is it a medical or PR exercise?
Every president in modern history - including Donald Trump this week - has taken an annual physical exam that is as much about messaging as it is about health.

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Every president in modern history - including Donald Trump this week - has taken an annual physical exam that is as much about messaging as it is about health.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed admitted on a podcast to destroying a bottle of vodka in a Detroit liquor store after being confronted about his beard.
Far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of a new city agency that sounds like his version of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.Mamdani said Thursday that the Commission on Government Efficiency would meet with community organizers and union members in order to improve coordination with city government efforts.'A reminder that when republicans expose and root out fraud it's smeared as racism, starving children, leaving the poor to die.' "This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency," Mamdani said. "This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are."He went on to take a shot at tech billionaire Elon Musk, who headed up the DOGE agency until he had a falling out with the president. "Elon Musk took that language and used it to cut as many jobs that were as critical as possible for so many of the neediest people across the country and across the world," the mayor said. "Ours is going to be a focus on actually delivering efficiency." Mamdani was immediately mocked by critics, including independent journalist Nick Shirley."This sounds a lot like DOGE ... Weird how your own governor questioned me when I speculated the sudden increase in spending in areas like childcare in NYC and now you do this. (Which is a good thing btw!)," he responded. "Cutting waste, fraud, and abuse should be the most nonpartisan issue in America as it affects everyone.""Remember when Democrats ridiculed President Trump and his administration for tackling government waste?" wrote Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. "Looks like they ran the numbers and found eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse is quite popular.""A reminder that when republicans expose and root out fraud it's smeared as racism, starving children, leaving the poor to die, etc. I suspect there will be a (d)ifference in coverage of this unserious ripoff of DOGE," TV producer Spencer Brown said."Is this satire? DOGE was ridiculed endlessly and now the folks who were outraged are doing it themselves?" another user replied on the X platform.The DOGE appropriation was also infuriating to liberals still angry about the agency's acts."Mimicking the DOGE name is an insult to every fired federal worker and everyone harmed or killed by USAID cuts," another user said. "Wish the team was a little less clever and slightly more thoughtful."RELATED: Mamdani's wife apologizes for insulting Israel, using N-word and gay slur in past tweets Musk promised through DOGE to find and cut trillions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse. Critics say the agency did very little to actually help the budget, which has spiraled into more debt under Trump's second term so far.Mamdani meanwhile was praised by many on the left for supposedly balancing the budget that had a $12 billion deficit. Critics point out that he did it by pushing pension payments into the future — basically mortgaging the future finances of the city to cover current costs. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
Warning: Graphic contentThe friend of a man who was allegedly caught on video sexually abusing corpses said he was spiraling after getting addicted to methamphetamine.Phoenix police said that 31-year-old Fenris Lu broke into the medical examiner's office in Maricopa County at about 2 a.m. on Wednesday and abused nearly a dozen corpses.'When you are deceased, you are helpless. It's sort of the ultimate control freak type of fun to have.'Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan said that Lu broke open the body bags of the corpses. Multiple law enforcement sources told KSAZ-TV that the man sexually abused the bodies of four men and it had been recorded on video.Sheridan added that no medicolegal death investigations were compromised, despite contamination concerns from the alleged abuse. The sheriff said none of the bodies had been a part of any criminal investigation.Dr. Rebecca Hsu, a forensic pathologist at Hsu Enterprises, told KSAZ that Lu was likely suffering from mental illness."With a lot of mental disorders, there may be some sort of control issue," she said. "Because frankly, when you are deceased, you are helpless. It's sort of the ultimate control freak type of fun to have because the people that you are touching have no way to engage you or to fight back."The man who said he was a longtime friend of Lu told KTVK-TV that Lu was originally from China and had been in a PhD program at the University of Washington and even taught students there.He said Lu moved to Phoenix to pursue a relationship that had become toxic. He claimed that Lu's mental state began to decline after he got addicted to methamphetamine."I feel really sorry for all the families that have their loved ones in that facility and they've been assaulted like this, but it also — this could've been prevented if he had better help for people who struggle with addiction and illness," the man added.He also refused to believe Lu had sexual motivations for the alleged abuse."I don't believe his motives were just to, like, go satisfy himself sexually and get away with it. I strongly believe that he was in some kind of psychosis or mental illness state," the man said. RELATED: Registered sex offender lived with girlfriend's corpse for 2 months and was afraid she'd come back to life, Las Vegas police say The friend had positive recollections about Lu, however."His intellect was really beautiful. ... We talked about life and anything and as much of a genius he is, he's also not right in the head for what happened to him. I'm really sorry that this happened to him," he said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
The US Justice Department on May 18 struck a deal with President Donald Trump to create a $1.77 billion legal fund to pay alleged victims of government “weaponization,” an unusual agreement that could result in millions of dollars in taxpayer money being doled out to Trump’s allies and supporters.
On paper, opposition to the deal centers on the notion that the combination will lead to fewer jobs and less competition. People close to Paramount believe the real opposition is political.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) struck a philosophical tone in a recent social media post following his major loss to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Lone Star State’s Republican primary runoff. The longtime senator cryptically shared the fable of the scorpion and the frog. In the story, a scorpion convinces a frog to carry […]
MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski asked her guest, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), to take over for her as she grew tearful talking about horrific conditions ICE detainees are being subjected to in Department of Homeland Security facilities the "Morning Joe" co-host called "concentration camps."A discussion with co-host Jonthan Lemire about threats new DHS head Markwayne Mullin has been aiming at the nation’s airports, set Brzezinski off, as she lambasted Donald Trump’s administration with her voice breaking and her eyes filling with tears.“So now you have story after story after story of people showing up at their immigration meetings, at their hearings, after they get a form; they're trying to go through the process,” she said. “They may be close to the process, but the rules get changed. So actually, you thought you could stay, but you can't. And that's happening to many different categories of people who are here and want to have legal status or in the process of getting legal status, they show up for their hearings. They show up because they want to follow the rules. They show up because they want to be here legally, and they're almost there. And they've spent so much money and so much time, and they've saved all their papers and they've tried to do everything right.”“And they show up and they get nabbed like criminals, like the worst of the worst, and put in concentration camps here in America,” she continued as her voice grew raspy. “And now the protests that have taken place outside [New Jersey’s] Delaney Hall, just one of many detention centers, as they call it. for a full week now in New Jersey, amid reports of hunger strikes by detainees, some of whom have described rotten food, a lack of air conditioning and being denied medical care.”"Joining us now, Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey. And you got into Delaney, so take it from me because I'm getting emotional,” she stated as the camera quickly cut away from her.“First of all, to not be emotional, the dignity of our nation, any pretense of nobility within our country is under assault right now,” Booker observed as Brzezinski could be heard sniffing off-screen. “This is our taxpayer money. These are our officials conducting immigration policy. That is levels of deep cruelty that should be unacceptable to all Americans. It's going on in Newark. It's going on in Texas. It's going on around our country. And understand this, that that facility now that they're begging for city support, when the city said there is health and safety concerns that you need to get a certificate of occupancy.” - YouTube youtu.be