House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to President Trump as “morbidly obese” during an appearance Monday night on CNN and said he shouldn’t be taking hydroxychloroquine to stave off coronavirus.
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, made the remark in an appearance on “Anderson Cooper 360” during which she was asked about Mr. Trump’s taking the drug, which he’d revealed earlier in the day.
She said taking that drug was not a good idea for the president because of his “age group and in his, shall we say, weight group,” which she described as “morbidly obese.”
Speaker Pelosi says that President @realDonaldTrump should not take Hydroxychloroquine because he is “morbidly obese.” pic.twitter.com/2a1XDw1Gvg — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 19, 2020
The 80-year-old speaker, who is second in the presidential succession line behind Vice President Mike Pence, said she would “rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists.”
To be considered “morbidly obese,” a technical term, a person would have to be 100 pounds over his ideal body weight and have a BMI of 40 or more, or 35 or more if he also has obesity-related health conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
Those conditions would not seem to apply to Mr. Trump.
His body-mass index, according to a 2019 medical examination, is 30.4, which is considered “obese,” but not morbidly so.
At 6-foot-3, his 243-pound weight isn’t close to 100 pounds too much, and the same physical put him in “very good health overall” with a resting pulse rate of 70 and a blood pressure reading of 118/80 — all three figures well within normal range.
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BenedictD0nald on May 19th, 2020 at 02:06 UTC »
The letter gives the doctor plausible deniability but does not say Trump is taking it. Reread the letter and pretend that Donald Trump (a known liar) didn't say that he was taking it, just minutes before the letter's release.
You would not know that Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine - or has been prescribed it - from reading the letter alone because it does not indicate or mention it at all.
Now imagine you're Trump. You need this hydroxychloroquine magic pill to work (from a political narrative perspective at least). It would be easy to get the doctor to write this letter, essentially saying nothing, and then announce that he's taking it because the two things combined is the mudding of the narrative to suite Trump's immediate political benefit. It has the added benefit for Trump to pretend to be macho and brave for his base. There's no way in hell Trump would volunteer to be a guinea pig for a dangerous treatment when he doesn't even have covid. "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Edit: also - this is Team Trump trying to distract from yet another impeachable offense with the firing of the IG for State as he was investigating the $8B Saudi arms deal. Bet you a hundred bucks that they got too close to Kushner.
Borrowed7time on May 19th, 2020 at 01:36 UTC »
Will this now spawn the Girther Movement?
lmeaac on May 19th, 2020 at 01:11 UTC »