TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Donald Trump heads to Walter Reed’s medical hospital Friday [2-8-19] afternoon for his annual physical, he will bring with him a very interesting — and still undercovered — theory of exercise and energy…For the uninitiated: Trump ascribes to what has been described as the ‘battery’ theory of, um, life force. Evan Osnos, in a profile of Trump in the New Yorker a few years back, described it thusly: ‘Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.’ Exercise, other than golf, of course, is viewed by Trump as an unnecessary drawing down of your battery life…During the 2016 campaign, Trump released scant details about his medical history. His longtime personal doctor, Harold Bornstein, released a letter in December 2015 proclaiming that: “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” (At 70, Trump was the oldest president ever elected to a first term.)”
-Chris Cillizza, “It’s time to revisit Donald Trump’s ‘battery’ theory of life force,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, February 8, 2019 6:30 pm