Of course they are lying. He doesn’t weigh 239. They lie about everything.
It probably wouldn’t be difficult to find a military doctor who would lie “for the good of the country”.
What’s to prevent them from giving Trump the EXACT same test to practice on? What’s to prevent them from having someone else take the test? What’s to prevent them from lying that he even took a test?
Yes, the doctor conveniently found that his weight is exactly one pound under some official definitions of “obese”.
It’s also been noted that by increasing his height magically by 1 inch and being one pound under 240, it makes his BMI 29.9, which is 0.1 under the “obesity” cutoff.
So the age of Trump means that I can knock 40 pounds off my weight, just by claiming it is my true, real, very healthy, bigly weight? Great! If Trump is 239, then I’m 150 pounds again!
Yep. Still… I think reasonable people believe that it’s not a matter of being obese… its’ the problem with his cred in that regard and the need to finagle such a thing (as if that’ll make him more presidential).
It’s both pathological and insulting to lie about things that can be disproved on sight. It’s not the obesity people are shaming, but his inability to accept he’s obese is so gross that an examining physician has to fluster and stammer his falsified data at a press conference should be shamed as well. I expect many clinically obese people who appear thinner yet whose physicians don’t grade their health exams “excellent” are enraged at being blatantly lied to in this claim by a physician who surely knows the truth.
Were his triglycerides and C-reactive protein values released? Waist-to-height ratio? Pounds and inches don’t matter so much as inches to inches do: consider the big-boned, mesomorphic body type, the muscular athletes who may have very developed torsos and biceps. If you choose to believe Red Don weighs only 239 lbs (three extra pounds from 16 months ago when he handed over a note to Dr. Mehmet Oz claiming he weighed 236) and didn’t shrink like other aged people do, compare recent pictures of him to pictures of Cooper Hefret and Alex Ovechkin, do you imagine they all share similar waist measurements?
I’m having difficulty finding waist measurement estimates for him: looking at him, I’d guess .65. A waist-to-height score of over .63 signifies a highly obese specimen.
(attributed to Jeet Heer) I really don't see the political utility of arguing about Trump's weight, physical health or mental competency.
But wouldn’t it be sweet to have tRump on a pay-to-play death pool and score some $$ from a political opponent oblivious to his health issues? A 71-year-old fatality can score some bonuses.