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Behind Donald Trump’s most outlandish lie yet.
Donald Trump’s booking documents in Fulton County, Georgia, manage to repeat a familiar untruth about the former president—and even establish a brand-new one. Once again, Trump, whose height peaked at 6’2”, claims to be 6’3”. He’s been doing this for years, even though, as a 77-year-old man, he has surely been shrinking, not growing, and frankly isn’t particularly likely to be 6’2” still.
But Donald Trump’s booking documents also note Trump’s weight, himself: 215 pounds.
Six-three and 215! Those are some impressive stats. Those are “Muhammad Ali in his prime” numbers. As one point of comparison, Trump’s doctor had him at 239 in 2018 (and it’s this guy, so, grain of salt). As another point of comparison, I am 5’9”, and I would say my body shape is comparable to Trump’s. I weigh, like, 240. And I play soccer sometimes, unlike Trump, who never exercises because he believes that his body contains a finite amount of energy, like a battery.
Donald Trump, of course, lies about basically everything. It’s his comfort zone. The mug shot itself is a kind of lie, or at least a very rehearsed performance, one for which he’s surely been preparing for weeks. Where his alleged co-conspirators displayed varying levels of shock, despair, and derangement, Trump glowered at the camera, creating an indelible photo. His allies are already making great use of it. “It will be a more popular image than the Mona Lisa,” Laura Loomer told Reuters. Want a beer koozie with the mug shot on it? That’ll be $15 for a set of two, paid to the Trump campaign.
It is a little funny, at least, that at a jailhouse booking, a place where your privacy is sacrificed on an altar for the public good, where you’re branded with the mug shot that will follow you for life, you are nonetheless allowed to declare your own weight. Yes, you are being thrown into a cell, but if you’ve always wanted to be a buck-eighty, well, now’s your chance. Officer, I didn’t kill that man—and I’m a Size 4.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/donald-trump-prison-weight-lie.html
Donald Trump’s booking documents in Fulton County, Georgia, manage to repeat a familiar untruth about the former president—and even establish a brand-new one. Once again, Trump, whose height peaked at 6’2”, claims to be 6’3”. He’s been doing this for years, even though, as a 77-year-old man, he has surely been shrinking, not growing, and frankly isn’t particularly likely to be 6’2” still.
But Donald Trump’s booking documents also note Trump’s weight, himself: 215 pounds.
Six-three and 215! Those are some impressive stats. Those are “Muhammad Ali in his prime” numbers. As one point of comparison, Trump’s doctor had him at 239 in 2018 (and it’s this guy, so, grain of salt). As another point of comparison, I am 5’9”, and I would say my body shape is comparable to Trump’s. I weigh, like, 240. And I play soccer sometimes, unlike Trump, who never exercises because he believes that his body contains a finite amount of energy, like a battery.
Donald Trump, of course, lies about basically everything. It’s his comfort zone. The mug shot itself is a kind of lie, or at least a very rehearsed performance, one for which he’s surely been preparing for weeks. Where his alleged co-conspirators displayed varying levels of shock, despair, and derangement, Trump glowered at the camera, creating an indelible photo. His allies are already making great use of it. “It will be a more popular image than the Mona Lisa,” Laura Loomer told Reuters. Want a beer koozie with the mug shot on it? That’ll be $15 for a set of two, paid to the Trump campaign.
It is a little funny, at least, that at a jailhouse booking, a place where your privacy is sacrificed on an altar for the public good, where you’re branded with the mug shot that will follow you for life, you are nonetheless allowed to declare your own weight. Yes, you are being thrown into a cell, but if you’ve always wanted to be a buck-eighty, well, now’s your chance. Officer, I didn’t kill that man—and I’m a Size 4.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/donald-trump-prison-weight-lie.html
