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Is the President Fit?: Donald Trump is the least athletic president in generations. [tr]
Politico ^ | July 18, 2017 | Ben Strauss

Posted on 07/20/2017 7:01:05 AM PDT by C19fan

Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump’s presidency than the golf cart. He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no). During his visit to Saudi Arabia in May, rather than walk, the president hopped a ride in a cart as he toured the National Museum in Riyadh. And a few days later, while six other world leaders at a G-7 summit in Sicily walked 700 yards up a slight hill to a photo-op, Trump followed behind for at least part of the way in, yes, another golf cart.

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To: Mouton
I recall pictures of that physical specimen we had just before Trump

Remember the video of him straining to curl a couple of 2.5lb dumbbells?

41 posted on 07/20/2017 7:31:36 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: C19fan

Even if this is true, so what? We voted to elect a POTUS, not a sports hero.


42 posted on 07/20/2017 7:32:06 AM PDT by Angels27
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To: grobdriver
OK - to Chewy (he's the last of his species)...

Uhhhhh....NO!

43 posted on 07/20/2017 7:32:29 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: scottinoc

If Trump does all that it will be the equivalent of a grand slam using a plastic (Congressional) bat.


44 posted on 07/20/2017 7:33:58 AM PDT by Obadiah (Global warming caused Hillary to lose the election.)
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To: Obadiah

Lyndon Johnson was an obese chainsmoker before Lady Bird got his habits under control, but went right back to them after leaving office and died less than four years later.

Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and both Bush 41 & 43 were athletic.

Pres. Trump continues to spread TDS & it’s getting to be epidemic.


45 posted on 07/20/2017 7:35:01 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: C19fan

He couldn’t have done 3-5 HOUR+ campaign stops PER DAY, nearly EVERY WEEK, if he were not physically fit.

Hillary did 1-2 campaign stops A WEEK and had to take time off to recoup. Some of her campaign stops lasted only a few minutes before she ‘gave out’.

Such articles are just more muck from the muckrakers.


46 posted on 07/20/2017 7:35:42 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: C19fan

He’s a 70 year old golfer who clearly keeps a schedule that would put people half his age on extended R&R. I don’t think there’s any issue there.


47 posted on 07/20/2017 7:36:58 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ConservativeStatement
Imagine the reaction if anyone criticized the physical attributes of a president Hillary Clinton.

It's like when they did skits about the candidates on SNL. With Trump, they emphasized exaggerated every flaw to the nth degree. For Hillary, they put a blonde wig on an attractive young woman.

48 posted on 07/20/2017 7:37:02 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Mouton
Not to mention this oldie but a goodie:


49 posted on 07/20/2017 7:43:04 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: wardamneagle
"Politico isn’t fit as a news agency."

Politico is the electronic version of used toilet paper.

50 posted on 07/20/2017 7:43:38 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: C19fan

Click the Pic

51 posted on 07/20/2017 7:44:39 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: TangoLimaSierra


52 posted on 07/20/2017 7:44:48 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: C19fan

But hey, nobody hangs a curtain swag better than the previous occupant of the WH. Now that takes real stamina.


53 posted on 07/20/2017 7:46:03 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: C19fan

He’s better fit than the druggie we had for the past 8 years who hid out behind closed doors doing who knows what or down at the man’s club hooking up with the latest STD.


54 posted on 07/20/2017 7:46:48 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: elcid1970
Bill Clinton ran laps in the Oval Office...

Chasing interns

55 posted on 07/20/2017 7:46:54 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Obadiah

Clinton was a coke freak horndog.


56 posted on 07/20/2017 7:47:39 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: subterfuge

Pickles Clinton LOL. I still laugh about how Hillary opened a jar of pickles on TV, to allegedly show how robust and energetic she is.

I recall her inane answer when issues of stamina came up in the debate with Trump. She said she traveled to 112 countries as Sec. of State, and sat for 11 hours in a congressional hearing. She claimed that these events proved her stamina.

The media never gave a lot of coverage to that statement, but, I thought it was absurd. She sits on her butt in a hearing room, and sits on an airplane traveling, and that proves she is in great physical shape??? Really???


57 posted on 07/20/2017 7:48:39 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump’s presidency than the golf cart. He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no).

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Trump has been athletic all his life, and he’s a very good golfer. He did not drive the cart on the green. It was on the fringe.

Fake News again.


58 posted on 07/20/2017 7:49:12 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: C19fan
JFK was an addict due to back pain. Clinton "running" (Lumpy) was a public event. Reagan (God Bless His Soul) had early signs of his later dementia. The superb physical condition of GWB was never lauded like Obama's golf expertise. And the one they wanted, Hillary, couldn't even walk straight much less stand for any period of time.

If these people could get into his bathroom, they would criticize the way Trump lifts the lid! The criticism is beyond insane.

59 posted on 07/20/2017 7:49:49 AM PDT by MHT (,`)
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To: Celerity

People managed to dress nicely for 200 years until the boomers, xers and millenials came along.


60 posted on 07/20/2017 7:50:37 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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