Well, the Human Body is Like a Battery…
Via the Times of London:
The distance between Donald Trump and his G7 partners was spelled out dramatically today when Theresa May and the leaders of Italy, France, Germany, Japan and Canada strolled the streets of Taormina, Sicily — while he followed in a golf cart.
The six are planning to put pressure on Mr Trump over his opposition to free trade and efforts to combat climate change. They walked the 700 yards from the traditional G7 group photo, taken at a Greek amphitheatre, to a piazza in the hilltop town, but Mr Trump stayed behind until he could take a seat in the electric vehicle.
He had been the last to arrive for the photo, keeping the others waiting at the amphitheatre, which commands sweeping views over the Mediterranean….
Low energy. Sad.
I do not believe that he actually believes the battery nonsense. He cannot be that stupid. This must be a fake story. It’s too close to conserving his precious bodily fluids.
He’s just lazy and out of shape, and using a golf cart so people don’t see him panting.
@Gustopher: Part of me doesn’t believe that he believes the battery thing, either, and yet part of me believex that he can, in fact, be that stupid (and that his eating habits and exercise regimen seem to support the theory as well…).
@Steven L. Taylor:
He’s a fat old man trying to play the silverback gorilla, the big alpha male. If he walked he would need to be in the lead and he lacks the stamina or focus to do it – young Trudeau could walk laps around Trump. Trump’s an idiot, but he has excellent instincts when it comes to crude power displays.
I wonder to what extent Melania encourages him to shovel down the Big Macs? “Supersize it, dahlink; it’s good for you.”
@Gustopher:
Occam’s Razor indicates that Trump is an idiot.
An ordinary person would probably have at least some friends, acquaintances or coworkers who would correct him. But Trump lives in a bubble in which enablers make him feel like a winner. Those people won’t contradict him, which only inflates his sense of self and allows him to believe stupid s**t.
The political world must be quite a shock. His usual intimidation tactics aren’t going to silence the opposition as they would have in his private life. He has lived for decades in that bubble, so he won’t learn.
@Pch101:
He doesn’t tolerate the presence of anyone who contradicts or corrects him.
Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted.
…that and playing the drums.
(PETA can go suck eggs.)
That link provides something where I may agree with Trump. It is difficult to find thin people who drink diet pop (except, perhaps, in advertisements for said pop).
@Franklin:
You can be sure Madame Trump drinks diet Coke. That her husband never noticed is par for the course.
The POTUS is a fat fwck.
@CSK: I don’t drink any kind of soda. I rather suspect she doesn’t either.
Having seen this up close, Trump has been his own man for some time. Unlike the politico’s who are surrounded, from their first day as mayor, to the senate and presidency (or any European version thereof) he has made his own decisions and doesn’t need to be a cow. Some pencil necked press aide says “now sir you’ll walk with the crowd showing your solidarity while pretending to talk to the others about affairs of great importance”. He says, “Son don’t need that shit, get me the cart, I’ll meet them there”.
@michael reynolds: I doubt he has low energy, he just doesn’t play reindeer games.
@James: Yes I’m sure that’s it and it has nothing to do with Trump’s prior comments about the human body being a battery. You remember from his book when he explained why he doesn’t exercise?
I do award you points for the creative spinning.