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.
The fact that he feels compelled to coment on it indicates he knows it’s too obvious for him to ignore. I wonder if his claim to have run the last ten feet will cause supporters who seek out the video to think it’s been doctored to show baby steps until the little jump at the end?
Who are you gonna believe, my tweets or your lying eyes?
I sort of understand this, I have seen a lot of people who have reached a certain age be extra careful when they walk down ramps or gangplanks and the like. Hell, I’ve done it myself (but only when things were iced or mossed over (so far)) He’s right about what a field day the press would have had if he fell. It still doesn’t excuse him lying about it, and I still think he was intoxicated, on what is anyone’s guess. Maybe Fauci has him sedated.
We geezers are told to be careful on stairs and similar, but careful is one thing and unable is another. A dry slope doesn’t require all that much caution unless it’s very very steep. I was walking up and down a bunch of slopes while Trump was at West Point and I didn’t even think about them.
Maybe he just should have said “I meant to do that”. There’s precedent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXU7EVXs2A
The ramp does look a bit steep, compared to the usual angle of wheelchair ramps. But he must have gone UP the ramp to get to the podium. Being unready for the angle, and sort of ‘side stepping’ like a toddler on a staircase, still begs explanation.
I have terrible knees. I have to go down steps like a two year old, stepping down one foot and then the other onto a single step. Downhill is hell on knees. I could see myself being that ginger on a ramp with no handrail. But on the other hand, it’s absolutely no secret that my knees are shot.