They lied about his weight to keep him from being compared to this republican president.

[Elwood P Dowd]

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[PJMcK]

1. There is nothing wrong with being corpulent

Lying about it is a different thing, don't you think?

Especially if you're supposed to be the leader of the free world.

[Cha]

5. Right.. we're all different weights and

sizes.. as along as we're healthy.

I think trump lies about it because he's ashamed of how much he really weighs. Like we can't see it.. like we couldn't see that his inauguration was not bigger than President Obama's.

Wants to keep stuffing junk food down his gullet and firing off ugly, vulgar, insulting tweets while he gorges.

My theory.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. It didn't stop me from thinking of it!

And wondering if they brought back Taft's special bathtub!

[misanthrope]

3. They don't have to worry about it because Taft

was fairly sharp mentally. He was an attorney by trade, serving as Solicitor General for a while. He also spent time on the bench, in Ohio, on the federal Sixth Circuit and on the Supreme Court of the United States for close to the last decade of his life.

Cerebrally, he would chew up a dunce like Trump.

[Cha]

4. "By the time Taft was inaugurated as president in 1909, he had indeed regained all he had lost, and

.. more, weighing 354 pounds. He became the butt of jokes, with many relishing a story that he had gotten stuck in a White House bathtub. But Taft never gave up. When he died in 1930, he weighed 280 pounds."

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=XexeWtjTLevj0gKCqpgQ&q=how+much+did+president+taft+weigh&oq=how+much+did+president+taft+weigh&gs_l=psy-ab.3...640.15146.0.15647.47.30.7.9.9.0.192.4100.0j27.27.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..4.23.2520...0j0i131k1j0i3k1j0i22i30k1j33i22i29i30k1.0.F8MHEyjQ2nE

Taft was 6' tall

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. So he weighed 280 in 1930.

Not far off Trump's real weight today. Has to be at least 35-40 pounds over what that medical report says.

[Cha]

7. Has to be.. it's so

surreal the doctor would lie about it even though he's trump's doc.

I call Height/WeightGate

[SergeStorms]

12. Trump weighs in....

at least in the 260-270 range if he weighs an ounce. I come from a family of big men. I'm the "runt' at 5' 10" 190 lbs. and no one can ever believe I weigh that much. Much of it's muscle, not fat, even at 68 years old. My brother is 6' 2" and weighs around 250 lbs. He's a power lifter, and there's not much fat on his frame. Other cousins are big boys too, so I know what I'm talking about. Trump is a fat tub of goo. There's absolutely no toned muscle on that frame, and he wiggles like a bowl full of jello when he walks......IF he walks! He avoids exercise like the plague.

[not fooled]

15. Hey, cut him a break

that's why there are golf carts--so lazy old white men don't have to walk.

That press conference with the doctor was as authentic as ronnie raygun's hair color.

[Drahthaardogs]

17. Yep. I'm a powerlifter in super heavyweight division

5' 11 and 263 lbs. I am the ideal structure for bench pressing. I am 3 inches shorter but wear 34 inch jeans. Trump is NOT less than 260.

[jmowreader]

8. Taft and Trump have something else in common

Neither one actually wanted to be president.

Taft's dream job was Supreme Court Justice. Trump? I don't know...he'd like to be capo of one of the Five Families, but he's not Italian.

[DFW]

10. Trump & Taft--how's THAT for a coincidence

This was our Trump version of "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha:"

Remember when I joined the race
And you got on our knees
And begged me not to run
Because I’d just distract?

WELL

I then ran anyhow, and then
The race got worse and worse.
I won and now I’ve gone completely out of my mind

AND

I’m running the U S A, ha ha
I’m running the U S A
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha
Like a funny farm
With fake reality all the time
And I’ll be happy to see
Those poor sick men
That get no care
And I’m running the U S A ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa!


You thought I was a joke
And so you laughed,
You LAUGHED when I said
That making America great is what I’d do.

RIGHT?

I know you laughed
I HEARD you laugh! You laughed
You laughed and I went daft and now
You see I’m William Howard Taft.

AND

I’m running the U S A, ha ha
I’m running the U S A, ho ho, hee hee, ha ha
Like a country club, with eighteen holes
And fawning men and naked girls
Who sit and smile while
I fondle their feet and toes
And I’m running the U S A ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!


I grabbed your wives
I took your dough
And this is how you pay me back
For all my kind unselfish, loving deeds

HA!

Well you just wait
I’ll call you fake, and when I do
They’ll say I’m right next morning on Fox News
You liberal mutt!

AND

I’m running the U S A, ha ha
I’m running the U S A
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha
Like a funny farm
With fake reality all the time
And I’ll be happy to see
Those poor sick men
That get no care
And I’m running the U S A, ha ha
I’m running the U S A, ho ho, hee hee, ha ha
Like a looney bin, run by the right
With phony votes and fake results
Corrupted men and closing schools
That teach no kids while
I play golf, and that is how
I’m running the U S A ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[montana_hazeleyes]

13. That's good DFW!

[DFW]

20. I've actually recorded it, but haven't posted it anywhere

If you have an email address where you want it sent so you can hear it, PM me. I am between cities in the States today, so I might not get to it immediately, but will have time before the weekend.

My video guy is having some personal issues at the moment, and I don't want to pressure him, as it seems (unfortunately) that this will be current for a while yet, unless Trump's arteries are more clogged than the physician let on yesterday. If the guy's accuracy can be measured by the number he gave for Trump's weight (239 pounds), then that possibility can't be discounted.

[tblue37]

16. Plus the huge amount of corruption in both administrations. nt

[Angry Dragon]

9. a 46" belt

[SergeStorms]

11. The original, "Fat Man in a Bathtub".

The White House had to have a "special" bathtub made to accommodate Mr. Taft. I doubt Trump bathes. Extra wide shower heads were probably constructed to reach all of the "nooks and crannies" on Trump's substantial girth. Sort of like a car wash for fat tubs of shit.

[More_Cowbell]

14. Oh, man

Am I ever sorry I read that! That's an image that won't go away.

[JI7]

18. I doubt Trump even knows who that is

[Bob Loblaw]

19. They lied simply because that's what they do

nt