Momentum!

Oh Donald. You’re such a putz.

While it is common for politicians to boast about their accomplishments, “successfully walked down ramp” is not usually the kind of achievement a president of the United States would emphasize in his messaging. But Donald Trump’s campaign is predicated on depicting his opponent, Joe Biden, as a helpless invalid, and himself as a virile and improbably healthy male who sleeps with models, or at least in the same building as them, in return for compensation commensurate with the task.

See also: the 2016 campaign, when he relentlessly mocked Hillary Clinton for having pneumonia.

But yesterday, Trump was recorded walking gingerly down a very shallow ramp, staring intently at his feet the entire way, after his address at West Point

Rupar’s clip again in case you’ve forgotten:

So of course he has to tell us that the ramp was practically vertical and smeared with bear grease.

Ran? He “ran” the very last step, and then did a weird arms pump as if to say he’d been putting on an act the whole time.

We’ve never seen him run. Literally not ever, not once. We’ve seen him take a golf cart while all the other heads of state walked; we’ve seen him push another head of state out of the way because he wanted to be in front; we’ve seen him walk allllllllllllll the way out to the helicopter on the front lawn. We have not seen him run.

Trump, quite typically, made a series of claims that are blatantly preposterous. The ramp was not steep. Nor was it long. The notion that it was “very slippery” seems hard to believe, given that the weather was dry and the general walking next to him had absolutely no difficulty. It is true there was no handrail, but this merely attests to the fact that the ramp was gentle and dry and did not require one.

It also seems hard to believe because would West Point do that? Put a slippery ramp in place for dignitaries to walk down?

I wonder if he’s explained the two hands needed to drink from a glass bit.

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