# Trump is dying **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 27, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520 "2025-08-27T07:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 140
**Author:** ![knavette57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knavette57/32/3871_2.png) [@knavette57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knavette57)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2782 "2026-05-23T02:51:37Z")
The article mentions it was not used widely until the 1970s, and it appears you had to get a prescription for it, too. My mom thought good ole Anacin (her analgesic of choice) was the greatest. We had the kid’s aspirin, but only for a fever. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2783 "2026-05-23T04:00:25Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Regardless, this article reinforces my estimate of how tall I think he currently is. The author’s a bit off, though. Look at how Barron is holding his head. Barron’s head and neck are slouched downward, like he’s about to go through a low doorway. Look at his chin vis à vis donald’s. He’d be at least an inch taller standing straight up. Donald is standing as tall as he can. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2784 "2026-05-23T04:51:26Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Look at how Barron is holding his head. Barron’s head and neck are slouched downward… To be fair to the man, if I was in his position, I too would be hanging my head in shame. ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2785 "2026-05-23T05:42:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m a bit surprised his raging vanity is tolerating that degree of fake looking not matching his actual skin tone. Especially since he has the best skin tone ever seen. Better skin tone than any other president in history. The most enormously incredible skin tone there could ever be! People have come up to him with tears in their eyes to say, “Sir, your skin tone is an inspiration to me!” ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2786 "2026-05-23T08:18:57Z")
From the Newsweek article: > But then, just three months later, Trump’s official inmate measurements from Fulton County Jail in Atlanta had him coming in at 6 feet, 3 inches and 215 pounds—meaning not only did he lose 25 pounds in three months but also grew an inch taller. Something very wrong there. First, he was never an inmate. And second, those numbers have to be self-reported and not any kind of measurement, official or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2787 "2026-05-23T09:05:48Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > He strikes me as the kind of guy who knows nothing about make-up and will not accept any help. He _absolutely_ believes that his makeup is perfect and nobody can tell anything is wrong with him, and anyone who says otherwise is just one of the “haters and losers”. > [@Atamasama](#): > > I did some quick research, and by the time a man is 80, he might have lost up to 3 inches in height. I was 6’1" at the end of my teenage growth spurt. I’m 43 now and I’m 5’11". I can certainly imagine him refusing to accept that he’s shrunk with time. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2788 "2026-05-23T09:16:16Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Something very wrong there. First, he was never an inmate. And second, those numbers have to be self-reported and not any kind of measurement, official or otherwise. The whole point of the article was about how those reported numbers were BS. I’m not sure about the “inmate” language; that could just be the terminology the county uses for the brief time he is in custody before he is released. I have no idea. I mean, if you follow the link in the section you quoted: > **[Donald Trump's height and weight measurements don't add up](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-height-weight-measurements-georgia-new-york-1822430)** > > Questions have been raised as arrest records from April and Thursday suggest the former president has grown an inch and lost 25 pounds in around three months. It mentions: > The former president [surrendered himself for processing](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-surrenders-georgia-historic-fourth-arrest-1822335) at Fulton County Jail, in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday evening, which was estimated to have taken around 20 minutes. He was in jail custody during those 20 minutes of processing. He might be considered an “inmate” for that brief period. Or they just use the term “inmate numbers” for every person they process. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2789 "2026-05-23T12:21:57Z")
I’ve noticed that sometimes the tallest kid in the room will develop the practice of slouching just a little bit out of self-consciousness, and they wind up doing it all their lives. It becomes a habit. It looks like Barron developed this habit. My darling late mother-in-law did this, God bless her. Michelle Obama does it, too. You can see it in her pictures. I posted a thread about that years ago. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2790 "2026-05-23T21:16:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I was 6’1" at the end of my teenage growth spurt. I’m 43 now and I’m 5’11". I can certainly imagine him refusing to accept that he’s shrunk with time. I had thought the main deal was that he didn’t want to fall officially into the “obese” category, as defined by his BMI being over 30. Since BMI = weight/height^2, mentally giving himself a few extra inches keeps him below that number. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2791 "2026-05-23T22:04:12Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > I had thought the main deal was that he didn’t want to fall officially into the “obese” category, as defined by his BMI being over 30. Since BMI = weight/height^2, mentally giving himself a few extra inches keeps him below that number. I think he’s probably lied about his height for most or all of his adult life. But, he wasn’t particularly heavy until the last 10-15 years, and if anything, I think he’s having his doctors fudge his publicly-stated weight numbers to specifically address that. His 2025 official physical lists him at 6’3" and 225 pounds, with a resting heart rate of 62 bpm. If you believe any of that… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2792 "2026-05-24T00:23:35Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > If you believe any of that… … I have a golden, ‘Made in America’ phone to sell you. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2793 "2026-05-24T00:54:13Z")
Looks like Trump is gonna need that ballroom sooner rather than later: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/white-house-gunshots-9.7210213](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/white-house-gunshots-9.7210213) It’s too bad he doesn’t have a friend with a private island that he could escape to. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2794 "2026-05-24T02:26:39Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > His 2025 official physical lists him at 6’3" and 225 pounds, with a resting heart rate of 62 bpm. Sorry, you have wrong thread – this belongs in the joke thread. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2795 "2026-05-24T07:39:05Z")
Only 'cause we don;t have a fantasy thread. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2796 "2026-05-25T17:24:25Z")
Trump is going back to Walter Reed for the third “check up” in a little over a year. > **[Trump to visit Walter Reed for the third check-up of his second term](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-visit-walter-reed-third-checkup-second-term-rcna346805)** > > Trump, who will be 80 next month, is the oldest person to be elected president. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2797 "2026-05-25T17:24:58Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump is going back to Walter Reed for the third “check up” in a little over a year. I bet he aces the cognative exam again. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2798 "2026-05-25T18:01:31Z")
I’m sure he’ll show how cogint and cognazent he is. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2799 "2026-05-25T18:27:06Z")
Correction (to the article). Trump will be 80 next month _if he doesn’t suffer a sudden cardiac arrest before then_ (due to completely natural causes and in now way accelerated by any bad actors) from his decades of unhealthy living. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2800 "2026-05-25T18:53:46Z")
I wish him well. Or, at least, I wish him well done in the pits of hell in which he will roast. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2801 "2026-05-25T18:54:46Z")
Has there been a groundswell of politicking yet for trump’s birthday to be declared a national holiday? While he’s still POTUS that is, not posthumously. If the always-mysterious RW “they” haven’t started pushing for that I’m a bit surprised. Just one more monument to his ego and that’ll be enough monuments. Said no narcissist dictator ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=139) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=141)