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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump thinks exercise will kill you
How healthy is President Donald Trump? We dont really know. The president never released his full medical records, and instead opted for a surreal on-air physical with TV star Dr. Oz.
One health aspect Trump is transparent about: He doesnt like to break a sweat. To be more precise, he thinks physical activity will kill you faster.
In a remarkable New Yorker story this week about how Donald Trump could realistically be removed from the presidency, Evan Osnos writes: Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.
The Trump human body as non-rechargeable battery theory was first detailed by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher in their 2016 book, Trump Revealed:
After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didnt work out. When he learned that John ODonnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, "You are going to die young because of this."
On the campaign trail, we learned that Trump didnt dedicate any extra time to breaking a sweat because he believes exercise is actually harmful, according to this 2015 New York Times,...
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Donald Trump thinks exercise will kill you (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
May 2017
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Cha
(297,120 posts)1. Good. Please proceed, trump.. here have
another bucket of chicken and some extra extra ice cream. Keep feeding that stupid ugly fat face.
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)9. don't forget a piece of the most beautiful chocolate cake. nt ;)
Cha
(297,120 posts)10. Oh and some of that Chocolate Pie that Minnie made. lol
Pi
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)11. That would be deeeelicious.
Cha
Cha
(297,120 posts)13. Just Desserts
Punkin
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)2. That's the best thing for him. I hope he stuffs his face & sits a lot
JI7
(89,244 posts)3. Good , and keep eating that kfc, mcdonalds , chocolate pie , frozen fries etc
TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)4. Add biology to the things Trump doesn't know anything about
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)5. If he's right
he needs to exercise more.
trusty elf
(7,383 posts)6. .....
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Cha
(297,120 posts)12. That's him.. gluttonous boar
dubyadiprecession
(5,705 posts)7. Trump say's a lot of things.
He loves the sound of his own voice.
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)8. Hey Mister Two Scoops
Why dontcha make it three.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)14. Actually there is evidence it does kill you
Years ago I read something from a Dr Solomon saying that people rush into exercise without building up fitness first and that it does kill many. He had a chart showing the number of hours of exercise by different methods before there is a fifty percent chance of death. I remember weight lifting was 5000 hours. He claimed that for the average person they are better off not exercising.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)15. Eat more. A lot more. Faster.
Ilsa
(61,692 posts)16. I knew someone who entertained the idea that our hearts have a limited
number if beats allotted to them, like a pitching arm. He was an accountant, and a sexist bigot, and I stopped having anything to do with him and his nonsense.