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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 12:35 PM Jan 2018

From May 15, 2017: Trump's theory about exercise

"Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy," writes Evan Osnos in a piece entitled "How Trump Could Get Fired" that appears in the May 8, edition of the New Yorker.

That's far from the first time we've heard that Trump and exercise aren't friends. This, from a February 6 piece in Axios: "The only workout Trump gets is an occasional round of golf. Even then, he mostly travels by cart. On the campaign trail he viewed his rallies as his form of exercise."

In their revelatory book "Trump Revealed," the Washington Post's Mike Kranisch and Marc Fisher wrote more extensively about Trump's "battery" theory of energy:

After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn't work out. When he learned that John O'Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, "You are going to die young because of this."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise/index.html
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From May 15, 2017: Trump's theory about exercise (Original Post) Miles Archer Jan 2018 OP
trump also believes the mind thbobby Jan 2018 #1
God, he's an idiot! smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #2

thbobby

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1. trump also believes the mind
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 12:42 PM
Jan 2018

can only store a finite amount of information. Reading books would only fill his head with useless words.

My opinion only.

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