The official White House narrative on the president’s Friday trip to a medical clinic has left MSNBC host Chris Hayes doing a double-take.

“Here’s the thing: Donald Trump already had his annual check-up. It was in April,” the network mainstay pointed out, pulling up a statement from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt earlier this week in which she’d claimed Trump would “visit Walter Reed Medical Centre for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops,” and that “while there, President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up.”

Routine annual physical exams, by virtue of their name, are performed just once a year. Speaking with reporters at the Oval Office Thursday, Trump reframed his visit as a “semi-annual physical, which I do,” and added “I think I’m in great shape, but I’ll

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