Neil Dunn health: Donald Trump shockingly reveals Congressman Neal Dunn 'would be dead by June'

President Donald Trump has leaked out details about Congressman Neil Dunn's terminal diagnosis.

Monday's event was billed as a lunch for the board of the Kennedy Center, a panel which Trump handpicked to add loyalists as part of a crusade to rid what he views as left-wing influence from the storied Washington arts venue.

Trump then announced on his Truth Social network that he would be giving a "news conference" -- only for the White House to make clear that he would be taking some questions from reporters, as he often does at such events.


Before questions, however, the oldest elected president in American history spoke for 40 minutes on pretty much any subject that came to mind.

Trump then turned to the Republican House speaker Mike Johnson -- but as Trump mused on the party's slim majority in the chamber he gave what appeared to be private details about a congressman's poor health.

The president said he had called doctors on behalf of Representative Neil Dunn, adding "he would be dead by June." The bespectacled Johnson then added: "Okay, that wasn't public."

Trump then added that "because I don't want to have a terrible story about this: I did it for him first. And for the vote second. But it was a close second, actually."

Trump also paid tribute to his trusted chief of staff Susie Wiles, sitting on his left, whose breast cancer diagnosis he had revealed on social media a few minutes before the event.

By the time he got to questions, Trump didn't hold back either as he ripped into a series of world leaders over their apparent reluctance to help secure the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian attacks.

"Not perfect -- but it's France," he said of President Emmanuel Macron's response. "Why do you have to meet with your team to find out whether or not you send some mine sweepers?" he added about British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Trump finished off with a glimpse into his foreign policy deliberations when a reporter asked about his reaction to an Israeli ground assault against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.