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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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KEYWORDS: fakenews; nevertrump
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To: C19fan

Bozos.... they don’t remember his pulling off multiple events in one day during campaign that would have toppled a younger candidate.

P.S. MSM take a look at Barry O throwing a baseball and tell me thats athletic....


61 posted on 07/20/2017 7:52:39 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: TomGuy

Yeah, it’s a flat out lie saying the campaign was not “exercise” - the schedule he kept was downright exhausting just to read about! And Trump seemed to draw more energy from the crowds, instead of getting rundown.

Just a pure, desperate hit piece. Waah waah.


62 posted on 07/20/2017 7:55:00 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: C19fan

I think I’d rather have a president that rode in a golf cart, than presidents who were drug and sex addicts


63 posted on 07/20/2017 7:55:42 AM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Carly had one great comment on Hillary: ‘Flying is not an accomplishment. It is an activity.’


64 posted on 07/20/2017 7:57:47 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell service T)
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To: C19fan

While I agree with the premise that I would like to see a President lead by example in fitness, methinks they go a little too easy on past office holders. For example, Bill Clinton is about the same age as Trump and he’s had triple bypass heart surgery. He has stints in his arteries holding them together. Guess all that “running” he did didn’t amount to a hill of beans...


65 posted on 07/20/2017 7:59:15 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: leaning conservative

Yes...and the media questioning Trump’s health uttered not a peep about that sick old lady. This election was close enough that she might have won if she could match his energy; she seemed to be concealing a major illness, and paid a price.


66 posted on 07/20/2017 7:59:58 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: originalbuckeye

I will grant that traveling to 112 countries in 4 years is kind of a feat, and I have long thought that secretary of state must be one of the most exhausting jobs in the world, just for that reason.

Unfortunately, in Hillary’s case, it was during those years of travel that she unraveled to the extent that she just looked like a jelly belly old lady instead of a politician ready to lead.


67 posted on 07/20/2017 8:00:55 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: C19fan

68 posted on 07/20/2017 8:04:10 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: GnuThere
A major factor in longevity is genetic. Trump's father lived for 93 years, his mother for 88. His paternal grandmother lived to the age of 86, while his paternal grandfather died at the age of 49, but he was a victim of the flu pandemic of 1918, which tended to victimize young and middle aged adults. This is not infallible proof that Trump will live as long as his parents, but it does bode well for his ability to serve out his term and then a second term. Remember that he has avoided smoking, alcohol, and illegal drugs and has a high sense of self-esteem.
69 posted on 07/20/2017 8:05:41 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

He may not lead by example in fitness, but he certainly does by not drinking and drugging. Besides, that “president working out” video business has been done to death.


70 posted on 07/20/2017 8:06:40 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: Wallace T.

We worry about Trumps Physical Fitness with all these lunatics running around DC. You have got to be kidding me.


71 posted on 07/20/2017 8:07:21 AM PDT by Herman Ball (2)
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To: Wallace T.

We worry about Trumps Physical Fitness with all these lunatics running around DC. You have got to be kidding me.


72 posted on 07/20/2017 8:07:23 AM PDT by Herman Ball (2)
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To: Wallace T.

Like my Auntie, all her brothers and sisters (including my mom) are dead, but she never drank nor smoked, and she’s almost 80 and pretty much just like she’s been for the last 30 years.


73 posted on 07/20/2017 8:08:32 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: C19fan
Let's just conveniently forget about all the rallies that Trump attended during 2016.

-PJ

74 posted on 07/20/2017 8:08:57 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Mouton

Just what I was thinking when I saw your post. Obama with the mom Jeans and pink bike helmut. Recall the golf photo ops where he has a wood in his hand from a hazard about 75 yards out! No wonder they never mention his score(s).


75 posted on 07/20/2017 8:09:57 AM PDT by DrDude (Get rid of everything Obama or Clinton!)
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To: ichabod1
Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, and Obama are/were cigarette smokers. I suspect it contributed to FDR's fatal stroke and Eisenhower's near fatal heart attack. As for Johnson, after he declined to run for reelection in 1968, he let his health go, returning to smoking and an obese condition, which probably hastened his death. As for Bill Clinton, his cigar, weight, and probable cocaine habits probably led to his heart problems. Obama has other health risk factors, other than smoking, for which he may suffer later on. Neither of his stated parents, Barack Obama, Sr., and Ann Dunham, survived middle age, dying at 46 and 52, respectively. (The senior Obama died in an automobile accident.) However, both sets of grandparents lived into their 70s and 80s.

Irrespective of personal vices and ideological views, the Presidential office is probably the most stressful position in America.

76 posted on 07/20/2017 8:23:17 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: stylin19a
bill clinton only played golf and he was 46 years when he became president.

You don't remember the White House jogging track built in 1993?

77 posted on 07/20/2017 8:28:45 AM PDT by jimfree (My17 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: jimfree

oh yeah, I forgot he was a runner...but he was 46 and Trump is 71


78 posted on 07/20/2017 8:31:52 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: C19fan

Grover Cleveland


79 posted on 07/20/2017 8:51:25 AM PDT by GotMojo
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To: C19fan

Was Harry Truman “fit”?
Who determines “fit”?
Are the reporters of today “fit”?


80 posted on 07/20/2017 10:04:45 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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