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SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 07:02 PM Jan 2018

"Birther movement" guy is now mocked as poster child for....

GIRTHER movement ..(in the UK)




Rozina Sabur, washington
17 JANUARY 2018 • 6:52PM

Donald Trump's medical examination has sparked online skepticism, dubbed the 'girther movement', as questions were raised over the measurements given for his height and weight. In his annual health check, the US president's official weight was given as 239 pounds (17 stone) and his height as 75in (6ft3), which classes him as medically overweight but just shy of obese.

However, the White House doctor's claim that Mr Trump is in "excellent" health has prompted online mockery in the form of the Twitter hashtag '#girther'. The online movement, which questions whether Mr Trump's true weight was provided, echos the 'birther' conspiracy theory Mr Trump led over Barack Obama's birth records.

Mr Trump alleged that Mr Obama was born in Kenya and was therefore not eligible to be a US president.

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One of the most popular tweets included a photograph purporting to show Mr Trump's driving licence listing the president as 6ft 2in, an inch shorter than Dr Ronny Jackson, the White House doctor, reported.

If Mr Trump was 6ft 2in he would have a higher BMI and would be classed as obese.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/17/donald-trumps-medical-examination-mocked-girther-movement/

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"Birther movement" guy is now mocked as poster child for.... (Original Post) SoCalDem Jan 2018 OP
Nothing that comes from that WH is true, nothing Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1
He dirties up everyone around him. Sampan Jan 2018 #2
Jeb Bush is 6'3" (no reason for him to lie) check the photos SoCalDem Jan 2018 #6
Has Trump ever been photographed with Terry Forster? gratuitous Jan 2018 #3
ooooh ouch...you meanie SoCalDem Jan 2018 #4
David Letterman had a lot of fun with Mr. Forster in the 1980s gratuitous Jan 2018 #5

Sampan

(121 posts)
2. He dirties up everyone around him.
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 07:14 PM
Jan 2018

And now he’s done it to the doctor. And the doctor let it happen. No cojones on any of them.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
6. Jeb Bush is 6'3" (no reason for him to lie) check the photos
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 07:52 PM
Jan 2018

google jeb bush donald trump..he (Bush) is significantly taller than the orange blob

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. David Letterman had a lot of fun with Mr. Forster in the 1980s
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 07:36 PM
Jan 2018

Took to calling him a "fat tub of goo."

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