Growth spurt
The Telegraph has a whole slew of articles on Trump’s mugshot and other aspects of his arrest. I get the sense they don’t admire him all that much.
Trump ‘loses two stone and gains an inch in height’
Donald Trump has grown an inch and lost more than two stone according to the measurements recorded during his booking at a Georgia jail.
It is unclear how his details were recorded by Fulton County Jail on Thursday, but it is thought Mr Trump may have given his own measurements.
The former president’s details were recorded as 6ft 3in (190.5cm) and 215lbs (97.5kg), which is considered by doctors as “overweight” but no longer obese.
The details suggest he is more than 24.2lbs lighter than in April, when he was booked in Manhattan for a separate case over “hush money” payments.
His measurements then, at 6ft 2in and 240lbs, would push him over the threshold for obesity, with a body mass index of 30.81.
Do we think he’s lost 24 pounds recently? No we do not.
Mr Trump’s White House doctors tried to help him lose weight during his tenure as president, by hiding cauliflower in mashed potato dishes and recommending that exercise machines [be] installed in the building.
Well you can install exercise machines in every room of the building but you’re not gonna get Lazy Boy to use them.
Donald Trump becomes first ex-US president to have mugshot taken
The 45th president is pictured striking a hostile pose, with his eyebrows contracted, lips pursed and a menacing scowl on his face.
And Trump and his goons plan to use it.
Mr Trump has seen a surge in polls in the wake of his four indictments and believes he can effectively market the mugshot to mobilise his supporters, who believe the charges are politically-motivated.
“This mugshot will forever go down in history as a symbol of America’s defiance of tyranny,” said a Trump campaign fundraising email.
Well yes, but not in the sense the trumpies mean it.
So sad those bone spurs kept Trump from assaulting the beaches with the Marines.
It really is extraordinary that Trump’s future really only holds two options for him. The Presidency or prison.
No way he’s 215 pounds… I’m often around that weight and he’s definitely bigger than me.
I don’t know that his popularity is surging, per se, among the projected voters. Perhaps among Republicans who hate America so much they wuld see the government toppled to get rid of the lefties in the Deep State (meaning all of us,) but not among the projected voters. A majority want to see him stand trial.
https://news.yahoo.com/terrible-news-trump-most-americans-152908553.html
Thanks for the link, Mike. The article notes that only a third of Republicans want to see him stand trial, which is disturbing but not surprising. The “popularity is surging” assessments may well be about Republican primary voters, not voters overall.