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TexasTowelie

(111,288 posts)
Mon May 25, 2020, 09:28 PM May 2020

Trump's struggles to stand still didn't go unnoticed during Memorial Day visit to Arlington

Oh sway can you see.

President Trump’s struggles to stand still during a Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery lit up social media Monday, prompting users to recall past incidents in which the commander in chief, who turns 74 next month, struggled to find a balance.

“Is the President having trouble standing up straight as the National Anthem begins at Arlington Cemetary (sic) or am I seeing things?” Joshua Potash from Queens asked on Twitter.

The Trump critic posted that video, along with another clearly showing the president swaying in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.




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Trump's struggles to stand still didn't go unnoticed during Memorial Day visit to Arlington (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2020 OP
Fidgety, like 'ze toddler Blue Owl May 2020 #1
Adderal is a hell of a drug. n/t ZZenith May 2020 #2
He's bored because it's not about him. louis-t May 2020 #3
Yeah, the m$$$$$m needs to concentrate on this instead Cha May 2020 #4
Maybe its his bone spurs causing him to sway pink May 2020 #5
The soldier is the only one not swaying. FuzzyRabbit May 2020 #6
meh it looked like they all were swaying a bit Kali May 2020 #7
I saw a video on twitter. Cracklin Charlie May 2020 #8
The lifts in his heels make it hard for him to maintain his balance cyclonefence May 2020 #9
Women often wear heels and don't Stand or sway like that. SharonAnn May 2020 #10
This is often brought up, and it's not the same thing cyclonefence May 2020 #11
He probably adjusts how he holds his arms (without realizing he is doing it) Grammy23 May 2020 #13
That's what causes him to look like a COLGATE4 May 2020 #21
Watched him sway the whole time but I noticed something DURHAM D May 2020 #12
Personally, I find it offensive grumpyduck May 2020 #14
And that could be the problem gratuitous May 2020 #20
It seems to me he lived his life like an asshole in the wind. tanyev May 2020 #15
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!! bullwinkle428 May 2020 #19
He Is A Mess colsohlibgal May 2020 #16
Dangling from strings the way they do, puppets have a hard time standing still. betsuni May 2020 #17
Excellent point! nancy1942 May 2020 #22
I have come to accept Presidents returning a salute from service members. TomSlick May 2020 #18

pink

(497 posts)
5. Maybe its his bone spurs causing him to sway
Mon May 25, 2020, 09:56 PM
May 2020

or maybe he just couldn't wait to get back on the golf course.

Kali

(54,990 posts)
7. meh it looked like they all were swaying a bit
Mon May 25, 2020, 10:02 PM
May 2020

but the snarky reply I wanted to make was...that's just how he gets into music. LOL remember at the Black church?

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
8. I saw a video on twitter.
Mon May 25, 2020, 10:10 PM
May 2020

From John(?) Avarosis.

It was a sped-up video of Trump standing next to Dr. Birx.

It was stunning to see Trump bobbing and swaying while Birx was relatively (normal) still. Something is wrong. Nobody else involved today did that.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
9. The lifts in his heels make it hard for him to maintain his balance
Mon May 25, 2020, 10:17 PM
May 2020

while standing still. He's wearing them more and more. You can tell when he has them in by the way his arms hang at his sides when he stands. If he has no lifts in, his arms hang pretty much straight down, parallel to his back and front. When the lifts are in, his arms hang straight down but in front of his body. The angle between his arms and his back increases so much that his hands are actually a couple of inches in front of his belly.

Well, that and he's pitched forward like the mermaid on a pirate ship's prow.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
11. This is often brought up, and it's not the same thing
Mon May 25, 2020, 10:23 PM
May 2020

Lifts are different from high heels besides--but he could ask Melania how to do it. Plus I think an old woman not used to wearing heels would have trouble standing still--at attention--in them. He doesn't have a problem when he's walking.

Grammy23

(5,807 posts)
13. He probably adjusts how he holds his arms (without realizing he is doing it)
Mon May 25, 2020, 10:24 PM
May 2020

to try to maintain his balance. Lots of older folks get balance issues and if he is adding inches to his height with lifts, it is probably making it even harder to maintain his balance. He could work on his balance with exercise but that lazy ass wouldn’t admit he has a problem to work on. A physical therapist could help him. Probably the first thing they’d tell him is to ditch the lifts.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
21. That's what causes him to look like a
Mon May 25, 2020, 11:22 PM
May 2020

'centaur whose horse part has been removed and replaced with legs'.

DURHAM D

(32,595 posts)
12. Watched him sway the whole time but I noticed something
Mon May 25, 2020, 10:23 PM
May 2020

about Pence also. When they walked in and he had his arms down at his side his hands did not hang with the palms facing toward his legs with thumbs forward like a normal person. Instead his hands rolled in and his thumbs faced his legs and his knuckles were forward.

grumpyduck

(6,197 posts)
14. Personally, I find it offensive
Mon May 25, 2020, 10:46 PM
May 2020

that he's saluting.

And I don't care that he's the commander in chief.

All lower case there on purpose.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
20. And that could be the problem
Mon May 25, 2020, 11:19 PM
May 2020

He's trying to do two things at once (saluting and standing still), and that usually doesn't go well for him.

bullwinkle428

(20,626 posts)
19. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
Mon May 25, 2020, 11:12 PM
May 2020


I couldn't read the words without singing them in my bad Elton John impersonation!

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
16. He Is A Mess
Mon May 25, 2020, 10:48 PM
May 2020

Yep the drugs he now takes, the coke he allegedly took for years, his lifts,etc, his supposed need for an adult diaper.....he is a total mess....and despite that tens of millions will vote for him this November. There is a sickness in this country thanks to 30 years of conservative media propaganda.

TomSlick

(11,032 posts)
18. I have come to accept Presidents returning a salute from service members.
Mon May 25, 2020, 11:12 PM
May 2020

I don't like it but accept it.

However, it chaps my old Army ass to see Cadet Bonespurs rendering a military salute for the National Anthem, etc.

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