Donald Trump's single weirdest belief

[Nevilledog]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/donald-trump-health-exercise-battery-theory/index.html

(CNN)Over the weekend, President Donald Trump played golf. Twice.

Perhaps self-conscious of his time spent on the links, he also made a point of defending himself against critics of his leisure time (although none were readily obvious).

Tweeteth Trump:

"I know many in business and politics that work out endlessly, in some cases to a point of exhaustion. It is their number one passion in life, but nobody complains. My 'exercise' is playing, almost never during the week, a quick round of golf. Obama played more and much longer rounds, no problem. When I play, Fake News CNN, and others, park themselves anywhere they can to get a picture, then scream 'President Trump is playing golf.' Actually, I play VERY fast, get a lot of work done on the golf course, and also get a 'tiny' bit of exercise. Not bad!"

(Sidebar: It is not true that President Barack Obama played more golf than Trump.)

Trump's repeated mention of "exercise" in those tweets reminded me of what I consider to be the weirdest (and one of the littlest-known) beliefs that the President carries: his battery theory of life energy.

For the uninitiated: Evan Osnos, in a profile of Trump in The New Yorker a few years back, described that "battery" theory thusly:

"Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy."

*snip*

[RockRaven]

1. Nah, The Dotard's single weirdest belief is that he is smart and/or competent...

The gulf between that and reality is bigger than any of his health woo-woo.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!

As he continues to believe that he is "royalty" - he is absolutely the "I KNOW MORE THAN....." king!

[captain queeg]

2. Why is it 'exercise' and not "exercise"? I'm no English major but that seems like a misuse

[LisaM]

3. Because it's a quote within a quote.

The double quotes are around his full statement; within that, you use single quotes do you can tell where the original quoted statement starts and ends

[captain queeg]

6. Ah, ok. That rings some dusty part of my brain.

[eShirl]

4. personally I think he needs more exorcise