Donald Trump Says Joe Biden Has ‘Stage 9’ Most cancers Throughout Press Briefing

President Donald Trump misspoke when requested about President Joe Biden’s most cancers prognosis on Monday, Could 19.

Following a ceremony by which he offered a Medal of Honor to the household of a fallen police officer, Trump took questions from the press, who requested about his response to Biden’s “aggressive” most cancers prognosis over the weekend.

“I believe it’s extremely unhappy, truly,” replied Trump, 78, earlier than mislabeling the prognosis. “I am stunned that it wasn’t notified a very long time in the past. As a result of to get to stage 9, it is a very long time.”

Biden’s spokesperson announced the new diagnosis in a press release on Sunday, Could 18, revealing that the 82-year-old former president has stage 4 prostate most cancers with a Gleason rating of 9, which is said to how briskly the most cancers might unfold.

Stage 4 is the very best attainable classification for most cancers. Dr. Christopher Wee, a genitourinary medical oncologist with the Cleveland Clinic, told PEOPLE that Biden’s most cancers is a stage 4 “as a result of it has unfold outdoors of the prostate.”

Gleason scores, however, are particular to prostate most cancers and vary from 6 to 10. “The upper the quantity, the extra irregular the cells are,” Dr. Wee defined to PEOPLE. “And so when one thing is a Gleason 9 or a Gleason 10… typically talking, individuals assume that displays a extra aggressive habits of the most cancers.”

After reiterating that he discovered Biden’s prostate most cancers prognosis “unhappy” in his remarks to the press on Monday, Trump shifted his focus to the previous president’s cognitive well being.

“There are issues occurring that the general public wasn’t knowledgeable. And I believe someone goes to have to talk to his physician,” he continued. “Why wasn’t the cognitive capability — why wasn’t that mentioned? I believe the medical doctors mentioned he is simply nice, and it is turned out that is not so. It’s totally harmful.”

Suggesting once more that superior most cancers similar to Biden’s “can take years to get to this degree of hazard,” Trump continued to posit that particulars of the previous president’s well being had been knowingly stored from the general public whereas he was in workplace.

“It is a very, very unhappy scenario, and I really feel very badly about it, and I believe individuals ought to try to discover out what occurred,” he concluded.

Trump is one among many Republicans calling for extra particulars about Biden’s well being and accusing the earlier administration of a cover-up.

On Monday, the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., took to social media to call out former first lady Jill Biden, who typically goes by Dr. Biden as a result of she has a doctorate in training.

“What I wish to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage 5 metastatic most cancers or is that this one more coverup???” he wrote on X, additionally misclassifying the previous president’s most cancers as stage 5, which doesn’t exist.

When one consumer commented on his submit, “That is an effort to push the very fact Joe was working the nation as a vegetable underneath the rug,” Don Jr. replied, “With out query.”