# Rick Perry challenges Donald Trump to a Pull-Up Contest - ::facepalm::
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574
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**Created:** [July 30, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574 "2015-07-30T13:25:41Z")
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/1 "2015-07-30T13:25:41Z")
> **[Rick Perry’s tough guy challenge for Donald Trump | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/politics/rick-perry-donald-trump-pull-up-contest/index.html)**
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> The war of words between Trump and Perry reached the jungle gym Wednesday as the two presidential candidates barreled toward a Battle of the Bigger Man.
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> Washington (CNN)The war of words between businessman Donald Trump and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry reached the jungle gym on Wednesday, when Perry challenged Trump to a pull-up contest.
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> “Let’s get a pull-up bar out there and let’s see who can do the most pull-ups,” said Perry, once an Air Force captain, when asked by a reporter if he had any message for Trump.
Pretty much sums it up. Oh, silly candidates, is there no stupidity you can’t do?
Doesn’t this approach negate the intelligence-ifying super power of Perry’s glasses?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/2 "2015-07-30T13:53:42Z")
Trump has to have someone pull up his pants for him in the morning.
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/3 "2015-07-30T14:00:25Z")
The article also contains this gem:
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> “This is what a Manhattan ‘tough guy’ wears to the southern border,” Haus tweeted. “White golf shoes and a linen jacket.”
Which implies to me that, I dunno, Perry’s camp expected Trump to come to the border photo op wearing fatigues and combat boots, prepared to shoot it out with coyotes and drug smugglers.
Actually, I’d rather wear golf shoes in a crisis situation than the stereotypical Texan cowboy boot. I bought some boots back when they were a bit of a thing back in the 80’s, and I’ve never owned such uncomfortable footwear.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/4 "2015-07-30T14:21:30Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> Oh, silly candidates, is there no stupidity you can’t do?
I am holding out hope for an actual dick-measuring contest.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/5 "2015-07-30T14:25:11Z")
I guess when you can’t get your name in the news, you try to glom onto someone else’s newsworthiness in whatever pathetic way.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/6 "2015-07-30T14:34:29Z")
> [@Crotalus](#):
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> I am holding out hope for an actual dick-measuring contest.
You’re holding out for them to hold it out? 😉
We’ve had physical challenges of machoism.
We’ve had a reality-show satire playing out as a legitimate candidate. Trump really is a Real Housewife of a candidate, isn’t he?
We’ve had a Gaudere’s Law incident with Huckabee invoking the Holocaust.
Just hilarious.
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### Author:  [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/7 "2015-07-30T14:37:29Z")
Will it be Mickey, Mouse Frozen, Doc McStuffins or Disney Princess [Pull-Ups](https://www.pull-ups.com/products)?
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/8 "2015-07-30T14:42:55Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> You’re holding out for them to hold it out? 😉
I assume that all of the candidates have handlers. 😃
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/9 "2015-07-30T15:02:06Z")
I want the Festivise poll and “Feats of Strength”.
Trump - “I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it!”
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### Author:  [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/10 "2015-07-30T15:02:19Z")
A while back, the paper had a pic of Perry doing a “one armed pullup”. However, he was cheating by grabbing his wrist with his other hand. Essentially, that’s still a two armed pullup. It’s non-intuitive, but having one hand grab the bar and the other hand grab the wrist is no harder than a normal pullup. A true one armed pullup means only one arm is doing the lifting and the other arm hangs free, which is very, very challenging.
I have no doubt he can do more pullups than Trump, but I’m sure Perry thinks he can beat anyone because he thinks he’s a pullup champion because he can do his special “one armed pullup”.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/11 "2015-07-30T15:08:38Z")
> [@Finagle](#):
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> Actually, I’d rather wear golf shoes in a crisis situation than the stereotypical Texan cowboy boot. I bought some boots back when they were a bit of a thing back in the 80’s, and I’ve never owned such uncomfortable footwear.
Cowboy boots are good for when you’re performing, you know, cowboy activities. Herding cattle, riding into town on a Saturday night, stuff like that. Anything else, not so much.
So when Perry gets elected president, is that a component of his foreign policy? Challenge Putin to a pullup contest?
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/12 "2015-07-30T15:10:06Z")
Who do these embarrassing morons think they are, Vladimir Putin?
ETA: Dammit Frank, you sneaky assed ninja.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/13 "2015-07-30T15:10:14Z")
> [@FuriousGeorge](#):
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> Will it be Mickey, Mouse Frozen, Doc McStuffins or Disney Princess [Pull-Ups](https://www.pull-ups.com/products)?
That’s what I was thinking of when I read the thread title.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/14 "2015-07-30T15:27:21Z")
Oh, how I love our election cycles…
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### Author:  [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/15 "2015-07-30T15:29:20Z")
No need to conjecture re: Putin and pull-ups. It’s established fact that Ronald Reagan Won The Cold War by being able to perform more pull-ups than Mookie Gorbachev.
I’d liken this thread to shooting fish in a barrel, if it weren’t the fish who are doing the shooting. 🙂
Q: what’s the over/under on Perry’s poll numbers in response to great Pull-up Gambit?
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/16 "2015-07-30T15:38:49Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> Doesn’t this approach negate the intelligence-ifying super power of Perry’s glasses?
When Huffpo ran an article featuring a pic of him in the glasses, I commented: “that’s a right triangle, you idiot!” 😛
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### Author:  [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/17 "2015-07-30T15:50:11Z")
My prediction for the contest:
Rick Perry does two Pull-Ups and then forgets what he was supposed to be doing, the audience laughs. The alien on Trump’s head takes another, fitter, host and wins easily.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/18 "2015-07-30T15:50:54Z")
> [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](#):
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> No need to conjecture re: Putin and pull-ups. It’s established fact that Ronald Reagan Won The Cold War by being able to perform more pull-ups than Mookie Gorbachev.
And that, of course, is why John McCain could never get elected - his inability to raise his arms above his shoulders would put our national security in severe jeopardy if he ever had to go one-on-one in the gym with our enemies.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/19 "2015-07-30T16:04:57Z")
I feel like I need infinite supplies of popcorn this political season.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-challenges-donald-trump-to-a-pull-up-contest-facepalm/726574/20 "2015-07-30T16:39:00Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> I feel like I need infinite supplies of popcorn this political season.
Yeah, but jolly ranchers would hurt more and are more likely to chase those clowns off of the stage.
Actually, that brings up a great new idea for public participation during the debates!
1)Build a cement wall behind the stage and add iron bars with a jail-cell door to stage right as well as to stage left.
2)Make sure that the candidates know that if they leave the stage at any time before the official end of the debate, they may not be listed on the ballot in any state.
3) Make sure to supply the crowd with cartons of fruit, vegetables, and eggs…
4) Profit!
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