Celebrating the Presidential Fitness Challenge, President Trump held a White House event today with kids and fitness at the forefront. During an Oval Office press availability to bring attention to the fitness event, President Trump delivered remarks and took questions from the assembled press pool.
The media questions come at 39:00 of the video below (prompted):
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The kids look comfortable and safe around The President. Much more than you could ever say about creepy Biden.
I think the President should have dismissed the children from the Q&A. Some of the material was NC-17.
Maybe, but touching and fondling adolescence children isn’t considered rated R or X for that matter?
I’m just saying they do not look terrified to be next to the President.
True, but when you are talking about 45,000 Iranian citizens being slaughtered by their own secret police, I’m not sure those young children should be exposed to that conversation. The President should have been a little more sensitive to that. Not the right time, nor place.
That was a big deal in the old Canal Zone…my sister in law achieved that award.
It was a big deal when I was in school too. Back then, doing things for the pride of a job well done, and in recognition of a sense of patriotism was common and every day. We desperately need that back.
Amen!
It is depressing to see so many younger people (in my case, younger means “anyone under 75” 🙂 ) not just overweight, but massively obese.
I was observing people at a restaurant recently, where many of the men and women of all ages were easily 250 – 400 lbs. Few were normal.
I see enough septuagenarian Baby Boomers with huge “beer guts” or just plain blubber waddling around!
Self-control, self-denial, and an ascetic outlook in general need to be cultivated early in childhood.
Just requires outdoor activity. Always outdoors when ‘we’ were kids and youths. At a very fit 90+, I am ‘authorized’ to state that..
Awesome …. 90 doesn’t happen by accident.
You have taken care of yourself.
🙂
I just came back from the grocery store and was aghast at a woman in front of me (of course blocking my way) who had a rear end almost 3 ft wide! She needed a trailer “wide load” sign tacked there.
“…who had a rear end almost 3 ft wide!”
I know the feeling, as I have seen too many such people in recent years.
I am sensitive to this, because my wife had a 7th-Grade student who weighed 500 + pounds and died at age 20 weighing c. 800 pounds.
We visited him and his mother once, when he was in high school: We noticed about 5 bags from McDonald’s on the coffee table. It was 4:30 in the afternoon.
His mother said with s straight face: “We just had an afternoon snack! Where would you like to go for supper?”
Yes, she weighed about 450-500 pounds.
Quite simply, he ate too much: his father had been morbidly obese at 400 pounds and died at age 35.
They had stuffed their child from birth onward with far too much food: a First-Grader should not weigh 150 pounds!
He suffered from collapsed lungs in my wife’s classroom twice because of the weight: the emergency squad could not lift him, and needed the janitor and a priest to help lift him into the ambulance.
Two years after he had died at age 20, his mother followed, not even 40 years of age.
Is it a disease? I would say rather it could be a mental illness!
Or…quite simply, a complete lack of self-control!
“For most of human history, every culture that cooked at all cooked in animal fat.
India clarified butter, called ghee, and used it for at least four thousand years. The Vedas mention it as sacred. The texts of Ayurveda mention it as medicine. The temple offerings mention it as the gift you brought when you wanted the gods to listen.
China rendered pork fat into lard, called zhū yóu, and used it as the default cooking medium across an enormous geographical range and several thousand years.
France rendered duck and goose fat, called graisse de canard, and built the entire cuisine of Gascony around its keeping qualities and flavour.
Mexico used pork lard, called manteca, in everything. Tamales were inedible without it. The traditional recipe for refried beans has it in the title.
The Middle East cooked in samneh, a clarified butter aged in clay pots, sometimes for years.
Britain spread beef dripping on bread and called it tea.
The American frontier rendered bear fat, bison tallow and pork lard and put up enough in the autumn to last the winter.
Every one of these populations, eating fat from animals that ate what their landscape provided, had cardiovascular disease rates so low that early 20th-century physicians had to travel to specific institutions to find a single confirmed case for teaching purposes. Heart disease before 1900 was a medical curiosity, like leprosy or scurvy. Doctors collected the cases.
Then came the seed oil. Within two generations, heart disease became the leading cause of death in every country that adopted it.
Coincidence, the nutrition establishment said.
For seventy years.
The samneh is still in the clay pot. The dripping is still in the bowl. The ghee is still on the temple altar. The lard is still in the manteca tin.
They have been there the whole time. We just stopped using them, on the advice of the people selling us something else.”
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Remembered in Elementary School, President Kennedy’s Fitness Challenge and it was taken seriously by Teachers, fellow classmates and myself…pushups, situps, running etc.
I remember receiving a patch and medal signifying the accomplishment.
Great idea…
I remember doing fairly well on the Kennedy tests except when it came to the pull-ups. I could only manage to hang on the bar like a giant lazy sloth. Same as today despite doing daily planks (not pushups).
President Trump seems tired. He needs a vacation. Working way to hard.
I had been outside doing some gardening and got hungry. I came in the house made myself something to eat. I sat down and turned on the television; the channel was on Newsmax. They were showing this event, and I was happy to hear this. I loved doing the presidential physical fitness test back in elementary and middle school. President Trump asked if any reporters had questions for anyone in the room. Wouldn’t you know the first reporter asked President Trump if he would take a question about Iran and President Trump said yes. That made me mad. he allowed this event to be hijacked. It took the focus off the event and turned what was supposed to be positive into a negative. When President Trump started talking about Iranians being shot in the head, I turned off the television, finished eating and went back outside.
That was really good