What’s Trump’s secret to ‘youthfullness’?
Okay. I’ve got to know how he does it. As my years go by, I am now in awe of our “young and vibrant” president and I would give anything to know how he does it. One theory has it that Trump’s startling youthfulness and extraordinary vibrance might be the result of his daily regimen of eight hours of “executive time.”
Writer Andy Borowitz put it this way: “lifting the remote, putting it down, lifting it again, and then tweeting is an exercise routine that very few people could keep up for one hour – and Trump does it for eight.” Borowitz also referenced the “Trump diet,” consisting entirely of hamburgers and Coke, to give their bodies the fuel necessary to complete the grueling remote lifting and tweeting workout.”
I have another theory. It’s the lying. According to fact-checker Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post, Trump has now eclipsed the 10,000-lie mark during his tenure in the White House. That’s an average of about 23 false or misleading claims a day in the last seven months. The way I see it, Trump tells so many lies, it takes extraordinary and youthful brainpower to try to keep them straight — and a youthful mind can help create a youthful body.
For instance, Trump now claims that when he described “very fine people” on both sides in Charlottesville, he did not mean white nationalists, neo-Nazis or other extremists, but rather people protesting the removal of the Robert E Lee statue. “People there were protesting the taking down of the monument to Robert E Lee. Everybody knows that.”
Actually, nobody knows that. The rally wasn’t even promoted as a rally to support the Lee statue. It was a “Unite the Right” rally in which right wing extremist participants carried guns, swastikas, chanted Nazi slogans such as “blood and soil,” as well as anti-Semitic rants such as, “Jews will not replace us.”
It takes a youthful, vibrant man to keep track of 10,000 lies. Too difficult for me. I think I’ll just keep trying to age as gracefully as possible. Stephan Lesher Southbury