Donald Trump held Theresa Mays hand because hes scared of slopes and stairs

[Sunlei]

Source: Sun

Taken as they walked from the building’s state rooms to the West Wing, it seemed to sum up how deeply they had bonded after a historic first meeting on Friday afternoon in Washington DC.

But an alternative explanation emerged that the US president suffers from bathmophobia — a fear of stairs or slopes.

Government sources in Washington DC said they had been told the New York property billionaire is uncomfortable with using either.

The 70-year-old president is thought to have grabbed Ms May’s hand to steady himself as the pair walked down a ramp in a colonnade, before then rubbing it in thanks.


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[KittyWampus]

1. Needs someone to hold his hand on stairs, needs someone to explain Geneva Conventions

I will be posting this on FB to humiliate him

[librechik]

2. copping a feel

[Sunlei]

3. won't even hold his wifes hand.

[IronLionZion]

5. Dude probably doesn't respect a woman dumb enough to marry him

just like he has no use for people who grovel at his feet like Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, and other Republicans he snubbed

[cab67]

4. As someone who deals with a phobia -

- this isn't something we should joke about.

(In my case, it's agoraphobia. I really, really don't like crowds.)

There's a shit-ton of other things we can mock about Trump.

[Sunlei]

7. trump isn't a joke. The news story isn't mocking his presumed illness or phobias.

I don't like crowds either except concert crowds

[LisaM]

27. No, but when he relentlessly bashed Hillary on being physically unfit

and bragged on his own health, I think it's relevant. I have phobias, too, including public speaking even if it's only a group of five people. I would not, however, seek out high office.

[Sunlei]

31. you're right it is relevant.

something else I noticed is in one of t(R)umps, (I have to find the recent picture) pictures last week. on his upper right arm, under the suit jacket there was a triangle shaped flat object with what looked like a line/tube? running towards his back.

has me curious if he has some medical issue and currently undergoes treatment for some issue. I have to use my imagination because he didn't disclose any medical history and he hates to appear weak.

addiction and that's a med pump? pain patch? or a shock device Republicans can trigger if he acts out weirdly? or contraband? wasn't a wrinkle in his suit.

[cab67]

32. fair enough.

[jpak]

6. She was lucky he only grabbed her hand.

yup

[Sunlei]

8. th ats why all the woman in WH wanted & got 2nd story offices.

[tinrobot]

9. Bathmophobe... Germaphobe... Factophobe... the man is just riddled with fear.

Of course, those tiny feet don't help with slopes and stairs.

[tavernier]

20. ...

[livetohike]

10. Vision problems? Balance issues? Can't someone in Congress demand a mental and physical examination?

We all know there is something seriously wrong with him other than being a jagoff.

[Joe Chi Minh]

11. If nothing else, Trump's going to bring the keenst wit out of

you Americans, judging from this thread.

[spiderpig]

12. Is that a commonly-known phobia?

He was happy enough to announce his campaign while descending godlike down his own escalator.

I'm close to Big Orange's age and I have to hesitate on steps and curbs - visual distortion and a tiny bit of general unsteadiness.

But I'm not the paragon of perfect health that Drumph is (per his Dear and Glorious Physician).

[Dave Starsky]

22. I remember that. He seemed fine then.

Maybe it's going down other people's stairs he's uncomfortable with. Maybe it's yet another control issue.

[bullwinkle428]

25. Well, he just had to stand in place on the escalator, as opposed to

actually having to work his own limbs to negotiate a set of stairs or a slope.

[deurbano]

13. Remember when Breitbart mocked Clinton for "needing help" climbing stairs?

(In reality, she had slipped or something, but she was portrayed as on the verge of death or a major health collapse.)

Maybe another case of projection! (In a l-o-n-g list of such cases.)

[TexasBushwhacker]

23. They started a rumor she had Parkinson's disease! N/t

[yurbud]

14. Baby Bush was afraid of horses, Trump afraid of inclines....

The GOP's next trust fund baby candidate will either be afraid to walk at all.

[Mc Mike]

15. He suffers from hydrophobia, too.

So he's a bit hard on the nostrils. Notice how PM May attempted to stay upwind of him.

[Initech]

17. *Yoda voice* Much fear, this one has!

[Mc Mike]

19. Much loathing, this one causes.

[greymattermom]

16. I'm his age and I hold the railing when walking down steps

for two reasons: vision, as I have to look through the bottom of my glasses, the near part, when walking down, and a knee issue, as sometimes one of my knees is a little weak. I'm also plus sized, like the Donald.

[Dave Starsky]

30. Aha! This could be an arthritis issue, then.

Anyone with severe arthritis in their knees knows that it's excruciating to walk down stairs, but not as bad going up.

This might explain why he was able to descend his escalator at Trump Tower with no problem, but why he now can't similarly go down a flight of stairs.

He might be a candidate for a knee replacement surgery. But he won't go through that, because he doesn't want to be seen as weak, ever.

[mwooldri]

18. If he's afraid of stairs...

... he must be a dalek.

[MindPilot]

21. I always thought Daleks are republicans.

Just by the way they get all giddy and spin in circles at the mere mention of death and destruction.

Trump has the perfect mentality for a Dalek...recall the episode where the Daleks had a prison ship to contain the Daleks that were too crazy even for the Daleks? That is sorta like the red states.

"All inferior life forms must be destroyed!!" --Supreme Dalek Bannon

[jmowreader]

33. I think he's ED-209

[Tanuki]

24. It looked to me like he was reaching out to grab her pussy and she caught his hand in the nick of

time. His reputation precedes him, and she has good reflexes.

[LisaM]

26. Yeah, he seemed to have a death grip on the stairs when he was getting onto Marine One

I remember noticing that.

[True Dough]

28. I don't know if I buy it

There seems to be plenty of visual evidence to the contrary (or if he is phobic he is managing to overcome it). Personally, I think he took May's hand because he has a compulsion to be in control around women. He's constantly telling them where to stand or how to pose or mauling them with his little paws. I think it's more a matter of his chauvinism.

[TeamPooka]

29. feeble old man