Is the President Fit?: Donald Trump is the least athletic president in generations. [tr]

Politico ^ | July 18, 2017 | Ben Strauss

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Howard Taft.

[Billthedrill]

William Howard Taft. He got stuck in a bathtub one time. Could happen to anyone.

[Albion Wilde]

Jim Fixx (1932 – 1984) authored the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running. He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age; his father had died even younger of the same. His genetic predisposition for heart problems and other previous lifestyle factors may have caused his heart attack.

Oh, by the way, The Donald's father died at 93 and his mother at 88.

[shhrubbery!]

Ha, President Trump has the energy and stamina of the Energizer Bunny, and the MSM have the nerve to say he isn't "fit" (whatever that's supposed to mean).

I've never bought into the idea that you need to look like an emaciated marathon runner, or obsessive cyclist, or body builder, to be fit.

[doorgunner69]

No one knows about the ‘Toon, he kept his medical info secret as I recall.

[Deplorable American1776]

Agree, it is fake news...

[MayflowerMadam]

We were watching him doing something last week and I told my husband that Trump looks younger than when he was elected. It’s like he thrives on the chaos.

[Deplorable American1776]

Our kids could create a better newspaper. Of course they might get better news from Drudge and FR...

[Deplorable American1776]

At Yale Field, there’s an oversized seat that was Howard’s. Yale Crime is the baseball stadium where Yale baseball team plays, not to be confused by Yale Bowl, where the Yale plays football...

[x]

Johnson had a heart condition and Jimmy Carter wasn't much of a jock.

Carter's may have been the only family in the country with their own tennis court, but the only physical activity I remember him involved in was canoeing -- up until the rabbit attacked him.

Nixon was like a lot of politicians. He loved to talk sports. Or to have people hear him talking about sports. But his own participation seems to have been limited to bowling and walking along the beach, often in a suit and dress shoes.

[waynesa98]

and could barely lift 5lb hand weights don’t you remember the foreign gym video proving obambi being a panty waste.

[Celerity]

“People managed to dress nicely for 200 years “

And I STILL wonder how they did it. I have simple wool suits that require me to be in frigid, top-setting air conditioning 9 months out of the year.

And waistcoats were like underwear for over 100 years as well - so if I find my thickest, hand-made wool suit and wear it I am sweating like a pig in anything over 60 degrees. And at 60 I’m quite uncomfortable.

[ichabod1]

Not surprising that fainting was a ‘thing’ back then.