neal dunn: Neil Dunn health: Donald Trump shockingly reveals Congressman Neal Dunn ‘would be dead by June’
Monday’s event was billed as a luncheon for the Kennedy Center board, which Trump hand-picked to add loyalists as part of his fight to purge what he sees as left-wing influence from the famed arts venue in Washington.
Trump later announced that he would hold a “press conference” on the Truth Social network; this was just for the White House to make clear that it would take some questions from reporters, as it often does at such events.
But before the questions, the oldest elected president in American history spoke for 40 minutes on just about every topic he could think of.
Trump then turned to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson; But as Trump pondered the party’s slim majority in the House, he provided seemingly private details about a congressman’s poor health.
The president added that he called doctors on Rep. Neil Dunn’s behalf and that “he will be dead by June.” A bespectacled Johnson later added: “Okay, that wasn’t public.”
Trump later added: “Because I don’t want to tell a bad story about it: I did it for her first. And for the vote second. But it was actually a close second.” Trump also paid tribute to his trusted chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who is seated to his left and whose breast cancer diagnosis he announced on social media minutes before the event.
Trump didn’t hold back either when it came to questions, lashing out at a number of world leaders for their apparent reluctance to help defend the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian attacks.
“It’s not perfect, but this is France,” he said of President Emmanuel Macron’s response. “Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you should send a mine clearer?” added British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
When a reporter asked for his reaction to Israel’s ground attack on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Trump finished his speech with a brief look at foreign policy debates.
