The girther controversy

It’s completely characteristic of both Donald Trump personally and the clown show that is his White House that the White House physician has released a medical report that features an egregious lie about Trump’s weight.

I feel almost professionally obliged to weigh in on this topic, and I would bet everything I have that Trump weighs more — a lot more — than the 239 pounds claimed by the White House. Combined with his reported height of 6’3″ (which is probably fudged upward at least an inch — people lose height as they age, and I doubt he was actually a legit 6’3″ even as a young man), his reported weight would give Trump a Body Mass Index of 29.9, i.e., one pound away from the dreaded label “obese.”

That’s very obviously not a coincidence — I’d put the over/under on Trump’s actual weight as around 270. Don’t give me this nonsense about fat weighing less than muscle — that’s true, but a 6’3 239 ripped man looks like this:

Trump looks like he weighs 75 pounds more than Keenan Robinson. So it’s probably only 30 pounds more, because of the muscle/fat thing.

Unfortunately in this particular case, the very weak association between BMIs in the low to mid 30s and increased mortality disappears entirely in geriatric populations, so all you fat haters shouldn’t get your hopes up. On the other hand, Trump’s extremely sedentary lifestyle creates a much better basis for a certain morbid optimism regarding when he might shuffle off his particularly repulsive mortal coil.