# is the president gaining weight? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-gaining-weight/782370 "2017-03-17T01:34:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [May 20, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-gaining-weight/782370/81 "2020-05-20T00:00:17Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Pelosi mistakenly says he’s morbidly obese. > > [From a February health report:](https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20190215/physical-shows-trump-is-obese-but-in-good-health) > > "Last year the 72-year-old, 6-foot 3-inch Trump weighed 239 pounds, but in a year he has gained 4 pounds and is now 243 pounds. That puts him at a body mass index of 30.4, which crosses the 30 BMI clinical threshold for obesity. > > “While BMI is not a perfect assessment of one’s health, when someone is clinically obese and has other risk factors, that significantly raises the concern for having heart problems,” CNN chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta explained." > > BUT!!! That article also says he already had been diagnosed with heart disease. > > Why the hell would he take hydroxychloroquine? He probably isn’t, in my opinion. [he isn’t 6 foot 3 inches](https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-g7-group-shot-where-donald-trump-cant-hide-from-his-height/) from 2019 ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-gaining-weight/782370/82 "2020-05-20T01:10:18Z")
Great quotes from that article! “Even if Donald Trump may have been six-foot-three-inches at one point in his life, it’s hard to see how he’s currently that height, even though military doctors swear it’s true. After all, in 2012, he stated he was six-foot-two-inches when he got his still-valid driver’s licence from the state of New York (Politico got a copy of the legal ID in a freedom-of-information request.) It’s hard to imagine he had a growth spurt in his seventies. If anything, that’s the age when people begin to shrink.” “Trump’s medical exam says he’s 6’3” and 239 pounds. Albert Pujols is 6’3" and 240 pounds. If the dementia tests are equally accurate, we are doomed." ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-gaining-weight/782370/83 "2020-05-20T01:32:38Z")
From [here:](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/498613-pelosi-on-calling-trump-morbidly-obese-i-didnt-know-that-he-would-be-so) > [@](#): > > Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday defended her comment claiming that President Trump could be at greater risk of complications from taking an unproven coronavirus treatment because he is “morbidly obese,” adding that she didn’t anticipate he would be “so sensitive” about his appearance. There’s a classic if ever I heard one. That woman is playing him SO HARD. Note also the pseudo-Trumpian “they say” that she snuck into the initial statement, just to twist the knife a little bit further. I expect he writhed in fury all night. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-gaining-weight/782370/84 "2020-05-20T02:25:15Z")
Hell, I’m only 59 and I’VE shrunk. I’ve been a six footer since I was 18, and now I clock in at 5’11.” ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-gaining-weight/782370/85 "2020-05-20T03:26:49Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Note also the pseudo-Trumpian “they say” that she snuck into the initial statement, just to twist the knife a little bit further. I expect he writhed in fury all night. If he rolled out of bed, I just want to know how high he bounced… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-president-gaining-weight/782370.md?page=4)