Donald Trump shares wild fitness routine claiming to work out 'one minute a day max'
Topics: Donald Trump, US News, Politics, News
Rhianna Benson
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Topics: Donald Trump, US News, Politics, News
An unexpected moment unfolded in the White House yesterday, when Donald Trump poked fun at his own lack of athleticism.
The US President invited a number of sports stars to the Oval Office on Tuesday (5 May) to celebrate the return of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, including Bryson DeChambeau, Gary Player, Amani Oruwariye and Noah Syndergaard.
Trump, 79, also invited several aspiring athletes to discuss his planned re-implementation of fitness tests in schools.
"It is a beautiful day to celebrate America’s athletic champions and traditions and physical fitness, and all of those things," he told attendees. "These next few years will be a golden age of athletics."
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Unsurprisingly, however, the Republican leader quickly turned the conversation to himself - more specifically, his own physique.
Now, anyone familiar with Trump's public declarations will be well aware that he's rather partial to blowing smoke up his own a**e.
Ever since he first announced plans to run for the presidency in 2015, his communication style has centred heavily on self-promotion, whether that be his political prowess, his allegedly immaculate health, or his wealthy circles.
There's one area of the politician's life that he is surprisingly self-deprecating over, however, and that's his fitness.
"I work so hard on a personal basis," Trump began his latest admission, unprompted.
He added, however: "I work out so much - about one minute a day max. If I’m lucky."
This is far from the first time that the father-of-five has admitted to being adverse to exercise.
In 2017, he famously told The New Yorker he finds physical exercise to be a misguided ritual, and attempted to dissuade readers from not sending their 'batteries' into overdrive - other than golf, of course.
He also told the publication at the time that he's 'not a big sleeper', admitting: "I like three hours, four hours."
Trump's affinity with McDonald’s is also extremely well documented. At the McDonald's Impact Summit last November, for example, he claimed his team tuck into a Mc-something following almost every political outing.
"Other politicians fly around on campaign planes stocked with expensive catering, when Trump Force One - prior to ascending to Air Force One, which is quite a nice plane also - we served only McDonald's almost every time," he joked.
In terms of his order, ex-campaign officials Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie recorded in their 2017 book Let Trump be Trump that his go-to was 'two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish and a chocolate malted [shake]'.
His love for Diet Coke is also supposedly so strong that during his first term in the White House, he installed a button on the Oval Office desk to notify White House staffers to top up his cup.
With these controversial habits in mind, the right-wing leader has been ceaselessly interrogated over - especially over an obscure bruise that sporadically appears on the back of his hands, and a neck rash that often emerges.
Trump repeatedly put his bruise down to aggressive handshaking, while his team claimed it had been caused by him taking a higher dose of aspirin than usual.
Regarding the rash, Dr Sean Barbabella claimed this had been caused by a 'very common cream', a 'preventative skin treatment'.
Trump was also photographed with swollen ankles last June, after which White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed he'd been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a blood circulation issue.
Despite this, Barbabella insisted last year that Trump 'remains in excellent overall health', following two full medical examinations at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre.