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President Trump apparently has a dim view of exercise, seeing it as a drain on the human body’s limited energy.
“Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy,” wrote Evan Osnos of the New Yorker in a profile of Trump in the magazine’s May 8 edition.
“Trump Revealed,” from August 2016.
“After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, ‘You are going to die young because of this.’”
I guess jobs will now be lost in the healthcare and physical fitness industry. Trunp might as well ban body building, wrestling and all other sporting events.
What's the point? Why not use this energy in lawn mowing jobs that will open by the millions after the wall is built and all Mexicans are sent back?
I completely agree with him. You have to keep active, but working out and marathon running are unnecessary. I know many people who are/were very physically active. They all have knee problems. Many end up gaining weight later in life because their level of activity drops but they keep eating like they did when they were burning a lot of calories. I know no very old people who were very physically active. It seems to me that more moderate activity is less stressful on the body long term. The main determinant to longevity is hereditary or simply luck.
I completely agree with him. You have to keep active, but working out and marathon running are unnecessary. I know many people who are/were very physically active. They all have knee problems. Many end up gaining weight later in life because their level of activity drops but they keep eating like they did when they were burning a lot of calories. I know no very old people who were very physically active. It seems to me that more moderate activity is less stressful on the body long term. The main determinant to longevity is hereditary or simply luck.
Again you hear what you want not what he said.
He didn't say he doesn't believe in 'over exercising'. He said exercise -- (that indicates even moderate exercise) depletes your energy.
It would be ridiculous for anyone to defend what he said.
At his age he sure had enough energy to kick Hillary's azz.
Again -- defending, excusing a statement like that is absolutely ridiciulous and indicative of someone who is blinded by their obsession with holding party lines.
Trump said something stupid. Doesn't mean everything he does is stupid -- just that he said something stupid.
And it is so easy to draw you out of the woodwork and show how you will all abandon any rational thinking in order to defend your leader. It's sad.....
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