Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[CostinR]

Personally I'd really like to know how a 70 year old man is as energetic as Trump. So who knows what he's taking. I doubt it's just genes.

[Edge-]

Personally I'd really like to know how a 70 year old man is as energetic as Trump. So who knows what he's taking. I doubt it's just genes.

Energetic?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nat...jeP/story.html

The man can't even walk the length of a damn football field.

[Breccia]

I take this with a grain of salt

Yeah, handwaving this one. Addiction killed his brother and the SS would have noticed by now.

[CostinR]

Energetic?

Yes energetic, that he chose to meet Bush like this means very little. This is a guy who was going to bed at 1 AM and then waking up very early in the morning during the 2016 campaign.

Reporters on the campaign trail called it the death march.

[Fugus]

Yes energetic, that he chose to meet Bush like this means very little. This is a guy who was going to bed at 1 AM and then waking up very early in the morning during the 2016 campaign.

Reporters on the campaign trail called it the death march.

He also spends most of his day watching TV and sitting on his ass. He goes off little sleep, that doesn't mean he is energetic.

There is even a small percentage of the population they have found that is predisposed to be just fine on as little as 4 hours of sleep per night and be fine. Though this does also potentially support the accusation that he is a speed freak.

But energetic, this is a guy who can't walk up a short hill without needing help.

[Adam Jensen]

Chief of Staff Jared Kushner?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...0cfa277b93?o3l

It's more likely than you think.

[solinari6]

Chief of Staff Jared Kushner?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...0cfa277b93?o3l

It's more likely than you think.

How would that work? I thought the reason he and Ivanka were "unpaid advisors" was because of nepotism laws?

[Ripster42]

How would that work? I thought the reason he and Ivanka were "unpaid advisors" was because of nepotism laws?

I'm not sure we actually have nepotism laws for a job like that. Remember, robert kennedy was john kennedy's AG.

[DarkTZeratul]

I'm not sure we actually have nepotism laws for a job like that. Remember, robert kennedy was john kennedy's AG.

"A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official."

[Pratt]

Personally I'd really like to know how a 70 year old man is as energetic as Trump. So who knows what he's taking. I doubt it's just genes.

Some guy who worked with him on The Apprentice just claimed that Trump is a "speed freak" who crushed up and snorted Adderall on set.

[Belize]

Yes energetic, that he chose to meet Bush like this means very little. This is a guy who was going to bed at 1 AM and then waking up very early in the morning during the 2016 campaign.

Reporters on the campaign trail called it the death march.

My grandma has insomnia. She'll sometimes start cooking in the middle of the night.

She's not "energetic" though. Energetic is running a mile. Good luck with that for him.

[CostinR]

My grandma has insomnia. She'll sometimes start cooking in the middle of the night.

She's not "energetic" though. Energetic is running a mile. Good luck with that for him.

Your grandma wasn't doing five political rallies a day. Pointing that out since reporters that were following Trump around on his trip, who are obviously experience at this this, could barely handle his frenetic schedule.

I know it's a popular thing to slam Trump on all fronts including his state of health but seriously the guy is in great shape for his age. I've seen many people that are far worse and younger then him.

You could boil a lot of that down to his lack of drinking and smoking though. Here is his full medical exam, the one he has to take by law.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ull-transcript

[Ripster42]

"A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official."

So how was robert kennedy john kennedy's AG? Did this law get put into place because of that? I don't think the chief of staff, while it may be filled by a civilian, is the same thing as a "civilian position." I think they're talking about jobs that aren't political appointees, like, promoting within the actual agency structure.

[Dontrike]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ull-transcript

Is this the same exam where the doctor said he could live to be 200?

[DarkTZeratul]

So how was robert kennedy john kennedy's AG? Did this law get put into place because of that?

According to Google, possibly yes. The law went into effect six years later and is typically referred to as the Bobby Kennedy Law, though there's some question as to whether it was specifically because of him or not (a lot of high-ranking government officials took serious umbrage with the appointment, but the bill's creator said it was primarily targeted at much lower-level positions where he claimed a lot of guys put their wives on the payroll without them doing actual work).

[Celista]

Yes energetic, that he chose to meet Bush like this means very little. This is a guy who was going to bed at 1 AM and then waking up very early in the morning during the 2016 campaign.

Reporters on the campaign trail called it the death march.

Supposedly he sleeps like 4 hours a night. I suspect he abuses something like adderall/ritalin. Getting that little sleep is not good for the body or the brain, lack of sleep is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease/dementia.

[Orbitus]

I'm not sure we actually have nepotism laws for a job like that. Remember, robert kennedy was john kennedy's AG.

And the Nepotism laws were made after that, BECAUSE of that. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110

It was made in 67, 4 years after Kennedy died.

[Ripster42]

According to Google, possibly yes. The law went into effect six years later and is typically referred to as the Bobby Kennedy Law, though there's some question as to whether it was specifically because of him or not (a lot of high-ranking government officials took serious umbrage with the appointment, but the bill's creator said it was primarily targeted at much lower-level positions where he claimed a lot of guys put their wives on the payroll without them doing actual work).

And the Nepotism laws were made after that, BECAUSE of that. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110

It was made in 67, 4 years after Kennedy died.

Yeah, I stand corrected.

[PACOX]

Chief of Staff Jared Kushner?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...0cfa277b93?o3l

It's more likely than you think.

Approved by who?

Also, can Mueller indict the AG?

No one should ever take as much abuse as Trump in the past week. What a toxic work environment, he should just quit.

[Ripster42]

Approved by who?

Also, can Mueller indict the AG?

Not without the ag's approval I believe.