# Is President Trump suddenly Getting Worse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 12, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444 "2018-01-12T04:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/181 "2018-01-16T22:32:30Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > So we need to pass laws mandating full neurological and medical exams, full financial accountings, etc before someone can run for higher office. Do you realize that would likely require a Constitutional Amendment? ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/182 "2018-01-16T22:47:40Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Do you realize that would likely require a Constitutional Amendment? Maybe, but maybe not. It depends on whether the Constitutional requirements constitute a set of minimum requirements, or if those are the only requirements allowed. I don’t think that’s ever been adjudicated. Maybe an actual lawyer can chime in. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/183 "2018-01-16T22:50:18Z")
So…Trumps doctor gives him a physical. He is amazingly fit for a man his age. He just needs to eat more healthy and get his cholesterol levels down. I smell a rat. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/184 "2018-01-16T23:25:32Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > … we need to pass laws mandating full neurological and medical exams, full financial accountings, etc before someone can run for higher office. I disagree. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/185 "2018-01-16T23:44:03Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > So…Trumps doctor gives him a physical. He is amazingly fit for a man his age. He just needs to eat more healthy and get his cholesterol levels down. I smell a rat. according to twitter I’m not the only one thinking there is no way he is 239 pounds #girther :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/186 "2018-01-17T00:06:25Z")
I have never seen him in real life. It is hard to judge. TV adds 10lbs I hear. He looks to be 280lbs, at least. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/187 "2018-01-17T00:51:33Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I disagree. Me too. It wouldn’t be right for the Democrat to run unopposed in every election. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/188 "2018-01-17T00:56:13Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Me too. It wouldn’t be right for the Democrat to run unopposed in every election. What makes you think it’d be something other than the Republican-controlled Congress setting the terms of this new law? I’d give you no better than 50/50 odds that some history of being a registered Democrat wouldn’t be declared disqualifying evidence of mental illness. ---
**Author:** ![Arizona\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Arizona\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arizona_Mike)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/189 "2018-01-17T01:26:40Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > So…Trumps doctor gives him a physical. He is amazingly fit for a man his age. He just needs to eat more healthy and get his cholesterol levels down. I smell a rat. He was also President Obama’s doctor and President Bush’s doctor. Even Obama’s staff has spoken of him glowingly. Some people do just have good genetics. Both the President’s parents lived a good long life. The President maxed out (30 out of 30) the Montreal Cognitive Assessment which screens for dementia and Alzheimer’s. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/190 "2018-01-17T01:49:41Z")
> [@Arizona\_Mike](#): > > He was also President Obama’s doctor and President Bush’s doctor. Even Obama’s staff has spoken of him glowingly. > > Some people do just have good genetics. Both the President’s parents lived a good long life. > > The President maxed out (30 out of 30) the Montreal Cognitive Assessment which screens for dementia and Alzheimer’s. You’re shitting all over their whole theory. They won’t like that. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/191 "2018-01-17T01:56:26Z")
A great relief, he is competent to stand trial. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/192 "2018-01-17T02:10:42Z")
> [@Arizona\_Mike](#): > > The President maxed out (30 out of 30) the Montreal Cognitive Assessment which screens for dementia and Alzheimer’s. So, what IS Trump’s excuse? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/193 "2018-01-17T02:31:58Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > So, what IS Trump’s excuse? Being incurious, possessing of a short attention span, convinced that he doesn’t need to study, and mostly, being an asshole. You can be all of those and still be mentally competent. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/194 "2018-01-17T02:53:34Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I have never seen him in real life. It is hard to judge. TV adds 10lbs I hear. > He looks to be 280lbs, at least. I find the website [height-weight-chart.com](http://height-weight-chart.com) to be pretty cool and useful; it has photos that real people have submitted of themselves, at a wide range of different weights and heights. However, it doesn’t have a lot of pictures of bigger and taller men. Here’s the entry for [6’3" and 240 pounds](https://height-weight-chart.com/603-240.html) (closest to Trump’s claimed height and weight). There are pictures of four different men at that height / weight (one of them submitted two pictures); three of the four have slight paunches (though not as pronounced as Trump appears to have), and the fourth is a bodybuilder. There’s one picture for someone at [6’3" and 260 pounds.](https://height-weight-chart.com/603-260.html) This looks, to me, closer to how Trump looks. Now, certainly, different people carry their weight differently. But, based on the sizable paunch that Trump carries (more visible in [pictures taken](http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/55a410e3eab8ea4d21028ac8/after-calling-for-the-us-to-get-down-to-business-trump-goes-on-his-23rd-golfing-trip-of-his-19-weeks-in-office.jpg) [when he’s golfing](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fk5LRiYxZXg/WM1njwwJX1I/AAAAAAAA6Ts/DLnBBZQYlUcQOxTbwisXWzEqAXmTkPYjgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Trump-golf-seated.jpg)), and [his not-quite-a-double-chin neck](http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5a20918ff914c353018b72a4-1190-625/plans-for-donald-trump-to-visit-the-uk-in-january-2018-have-reportedly-been-dropped.jpg), I’m skeptical about the 239 pounds claim. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/195 "2018-01-17T02:57:57Z")
> [@Arizona\_Mike](#): > > He was also President Obama’s doctor and President Bush’s doctor. Even Obama’s staff has spoken of him glowingly. To be fair, it’s perfectly possible that he knows a lot about medicine even if he’s a bit shaky on [how to spell his own first name](https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/952002742968516609). ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/196 "2018-01-17T02:58:19Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’m skeptical about the 239 pounds claim. It is one pound under the BMI Obese range. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/197 "2018-01-17T02:59:52Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > It is one pound under the BMI Obese range. :dubious: Yeah, there’s that coincidence, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/198 "2018-01-17T03:08:19Z")
It don’t matter who the doctor was. Everyone has a price. No, really the doctor is probably competent. Doesn’t have an effect of his damaged personality and his racism. I still think he is a fat ass, too. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/199 "2018-01-17T03:37:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I have never seen him in real life. It is hard to judge. TV adds 10lbs I hear. > He looks to be 280lbs, at least. Are you engaging in fat shaming? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-trump-suddenly-getting-worse/806444/200 "2018-01-17T03:39:01Z")
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