The White House released Trump's annual physical. It is such an obvious and blatant set of fabrications that it defies belief.
Let's start with the glaringly obvious. It claims Trump is 6'3". Maybe. It then claims he weighs 224 lbs. That would probably require him to have about 6% body fat. I defy anyone to look at a picture of him and conclude that that number is anything but fraudulent.
Many have dunked on this obvious fabrication, but let's go further. It says his BP is 128/74 and his resting pulse is 62. Heart rates and BP tend to increase with age. A resting pulse rate of 62 would be impressive for someone my age. I work out a fair amount and that's a little below mine. The American Heart Association like to say that 130/80 is the "good" blood pressure, but we now expect an 80 year old man to be more in the range of 140-150/90. Instead, what they did is they looked at the "best numbers" and then added 2 BPM for the heart rate and took away a few points for the BP from the BEST possible result.
As someone who has seen students cheat or fake their way through work for the past 30 years, this is VERY much someone making up numbers.
They mention his gun shot wound, which - again - no one has independently corroborated.
He scored 30 out of 30 on his cognitive test. I defy you to listen to him speak off the cuff for any period of time and conclude that THIS guy has all his mental faculties.
His lipid panel is ridiculously good with an HDL of 77 and an LDL of 51. Those numbers are perfect. As someone who went through his own physical and blood work recently, you always have a few weird outliers. All of his numbers are perfect. The report touts his active lifestyle, which is pretty much driving around a golf course, getting out, whacking a ball and getting back in the cart. Nevertheless, the report lauds his "frequent victories in golf events."
The Times reports all this with as much credulity as it can. It concludes (rather than leads off) with some of the other questions about previous reports. There's this:
Mr. Trump, a fast-food enthusiast, is fueled by a diet heavy on ice cream, red meat and soda.
The president has referred to himself as “very much of a germaphobe” and says he does not drink alcohol or smoke, which was noted in the report. He has said he sleeps about five hours a night. Medical reports have described him as standing 6-foot-3.
There are two reasons why this otherwise comical story is not so funny.
The first is that again, we are asked to believe things that are just observably false, which is part of how fascists warp our sense of what is real.
The second is that Trump looks like he could keel over at any minute. He looks like absolute dogshit. If he DOES keel over in the next two to four years, his cultists will point to this nonsense as proof that the Deep State poisoned him.
Mark it down.
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