"The ramp I descended was very long & steep, had no handrail &, most importantly, was very slippery"

[Miles Archer]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The ramp that I descended after my West Point Commencement speech was very long & steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery. The last thing I was going to do is “fall” for the Fake News to have fun with. Final ten feet I ran down to level ground. Momentum!

10:57 PM · Jun 13, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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[soothsayer]

1. He did finish with a flourish

But he forgot to mention his high heels and lifts. Those have got to make it harder.

[Miles Archer]

4. Yeah, and his flourish was one step, not ten feet

I saw a few of Aaron Rupar's video clips on Twitter...Trump is still unable to drink water, he did an "Apprentice" build-up to his birthday tomorrow that was met with silence, and he continues to slur words and get lost in his train of thought. People can do the math on all of that and draw whatever conclusions they'd like, but the hashtag #TrumpIsNotWell IS trending on Twitter, whether he likes it or not.

[Blue Owl]

2. Lookin' a little unstable there, genius...

n/t

[soothsayer]

8. Love

[malaise]

37. Nicely done

[captain queeg]

3. The fact that he's tweeting about it shows what everyone thinks is true

If it was meaningless he wouldn’t have noticed or remembered it

[Leghorn21]

5. Our friend Aaron Rupar noted the event:

Trump descended a ramp extremely carefully at the
end of his West Point speech today

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I saw him “run” for, oh, two steps?

[tanyev]

45. Really seems to be an issue with his right side.

Left foot forward, right foot up to meet it. Left foot forward, right foot up to meet it. Etc.

Grab the water with right hand because he’s right-handed, but needs additional support from the left.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. Guys behind him has no trouble at all

It was obvious it was not steep at all.

[dalton99a]

7. Now, explain why you don't want to use a sippy cup

[sheshe2]

9. It was very long...

What ten feet or so? They forgot your golf cart to shuttle ya down? No handrail? What a feeble old man.

Lol...it was slippery? Look like a clear sunny day in June to me.

Asshole.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. That would make the ramp a violation of building codes which.....

does not speak well for the minions setting up this shitshow for him..........

Of course, he's not know for hiring the brightest lightbulbs from our society. He only hires the most loyal.

On the other hand, he could be just simply lying as usual.

[bullimiami]

11. Bull. No way the riggers build a stage that's not by the book and properly safe.

And at West Point for the President.

What a buffoonic liar.

[grumpyduck]

12. Yeah, and for those of you who know who she was,

Ginger Rogers did her dances in high heels and often going backwards.

STFU, bunkerboy.

[lastlib]

13. IOW, he pissed on it, and got it too slick to walk on by himself.

Damn, I'd hate to clean up that mess!

[struggle4progress]

14. "We're gonna whine much you'll get tired of whining"

[USALiberal]

15. I have a bad right ankle, ramps make me nervous too. Nt

[Retrograde]

60. I prefer ramps to stairs

Bad arthritis in one knee makes going down stairs a problem. Ramps are a bit easier, depending on the pitch. It's just one of the many things that come with age: some people are lucky and it doesn't hit them until very late, others start having mobility issues earlier on. If he weren't in such denial and hadn't shown such contempt for differently-abled people in the past I'd cut him some slack.

Judging from the clip, though, the ramp should have had a rail.

[SoonerPride]

16. #trumpisnotwell

#trumpisnothuman

[Thomas Hurt]

17. The Pig is describing a slide, he should have just sat down and rode his lard ass to the bottom.

[spanone]

18. Running?????

Bwwahahahahahaaaa

[malaise]

38. McGarther was running

[not_the_one]

19. let's see photos of the ramp's length and degree of slant.

n/t

[Cha]

20. LOL.. the Hell Monster on the Defensive about how

he walks down a ramp!

Fail!

[Cha]

21. the glass of water "slippery", too, FAKE president?

Link to tweet

[Music Man]

22. Ladies and gentlemen,

The president of the United States--the man with the nuclear launch codes, the man who can get any piece of information in the world upon request so he can improve people's lives, one of just 44 different people in all of history to hold this prestigious title--is Tweeting about how he walked down a ramp.

Goddamn, we've got to turnout every single freaking Joe Biden supporter this November.

[captain queeg]

23. Hmm. I don't think sleepy joe would have had a hard time

If the coward shows up for a debate Joe ought to challenge him to a few simple tasks. Pushups would be great, but how about just walking down a ramp, drinking a glass of water, and operating an umbrella? Or any two of these at the same time.

[Renew Deal]

24. It's amazing that he feels obligated to comment on everything.

[Grasswire2]

26. Like a little old nosy person on a party line telephone character.

Gossiping, yammering...….

[gratuitous]

46. That's true

But since he's also insulted everyone else for anything else, sooner or later one of his nasty tweets catches up to him. So he has to explain why his doddering descent down the ramp is totally different from the time Hillary Clinton caught her foot and tripped.

[LeftInTX]

25. What's next?

I hope it's not toilet stuff

[IcyPeas]

27. Note: He hates being ridiculed and laughed at.

After the bleach comment, I think he appeared at one more Covid task force pressers. People were laughing and ridiculing him for the bleach and light comment. So no more pressers.

He.Hates.Being.Ridiculed!

[Demovictory9]

28. love Eugene Gu, MD's response: you're in a glass house throwing stones.

Eugene Gu, MD
@eugenegu
·
Replying to
@realDonaldTrump
Maybe you should stop making fun of Joe Biden and your enemies by calling them “Sleepy,” “hiding in the basement,” and accusing them of physical ailments when you yourself aren’t in your prime. I’m not here to make fun of you medically but you’re in a glass house throwing stones.

[Miles Archer]

31. That's a good representation of what Doctor Eugene normally responds with...

"I’m not here to make fun of you medically but..."

He never really "trolls" Trump, he's usually one of the early responders and it's always something based on sound reasoning and pulling no punches. He keeps it short, simple, direct and he's a frequent rebuttal voice to what Trump spews out.

[keithbvadu2]

29. Momentum! - Could not control my speed.

Momentum! - Could not control my speed.

[Gothmog]

30. From George Conway

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?s=20

[malaise]

32. You're 74 and shaky monster

Fuck off!

[hatrack]

33. "Very slippery" from WHAT? Bloatus' flop-sweat?

And if it's no big deal, why the fuck would he bring this up at all?

What an asshole.

[Maeve]

34. Merthinks he doth protest too much

[DFW]

35. Translated into English, what he said means this:

"Look, it may be no secret to you that I'm not in the greatest of shape. But considering how lamebrained my supporters are, I could tell them I'm Superman, and they'd not only believe it, but they'd accuse George Soros of providing Nancy Pelosi with green Kryptonite to make me unsteady on my feet. So deal with it and leave me alone, or else I'll call you fake news, and 40% of America will believe me."

[kentuck]

36. It sounds like he wants empathy.

So, he does know what it is!

[panader0]

39. My old bricklayer boss used to say: "If you're looking for sympathy

it's between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."

[Yeehah]

50. Haha!

I heard that in the Army.

[Poiuyt]

40. I noticed the army guy had no trouble with the ramp

[Ms. Toad]

61. Yup.

And the army guy didn't need to do the left foot forward, drag the right to catch up shuffle.

[Poiuyt]

62. He walks like Imhotep

[Hotler]

41. The ramp was clearly in volation of OSHA rules requiring a guardrail. ...

[llmart]

42. The only thing I find newsworthy about this particular episode...

is that he feels the need to lie about it. I'm not that much younger than he is but I've kept in pretty good shape my entire adult life. However, I've clearly noticed how much more careful I am in these types of situations, how much slower I am at doing things, how I've eliminated some things from my life because I'm in my 70's. There's no shame in admitting it. It happens to all of us. Trying to pretend it doesn't is a rude awakening for some people. For some people it's just the denial phase in the aging process. I tend to be more of a realist. One of the reasons I do things slower, especially walking, is not because I'm not physically fit. It's because I have one eye with wet macular degeneration, so things are wavy/blurry sometimes. If I tripped on something it would more likely be due to misjudging where I am in relation to a step.

And if some on DU are thinking that Joe Biden doesn't have some physical limitations then you're kidding yourselves. On this point, it isn't fair to compare the Orange Buffoon to President Obama.

As I said, I'll give him a pass on this. What I'll never give him a pass on is being so narcissistic that he thinks we all believe his bullshit.

[krispos42]

44. I won't give him a pass, simply because he takes every opportunity to rip on people's weaknesses

If Joe Biden did this EXACT same thing, Dotard would be tweeting about "Stumbly Joe" and accuse the Fake News of covering up Biden's failing health.

It's unfortunate, but respect is earned. And Dolt45 has earned nothing but contempt as a bottom-feeding parasite on America.

[JmAln]

47. I won't give a pass to that despicable bully.

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[Dave Starsky]

52. He's clearly showing neurological and cognitive problems.

FDR was in a wheelchair, but it didn't affect how he did his job. But he didn't have organic brain disease, either. There is something seriously wrong with Trump.

[llmart]

54. Yes, it's his cognitive problems that I would be more worried about...

not the physical ones that come with aging. Some senior voters might not take kindly to making such a big deal over the fact that he can't bound down the ramp because they can relate more to what it's like to be judged by the limitations that come with aging.

This particular episode just seems petty to me, but then I lean towards focusing on the real harm his decisions are doing to our country. I despise him as much as the next person on this forum, but let's focus on what's important.

[sarcasmo]

43. I don't think the man could walk a mile without falling down or quitting.

[DesertRat]

48. Here's President Obama on the same ramp

Link to tweet

And a side-by-side comparison. An easy confident stride vs. tentative baby steps. Sad.

Link to tweet

[Iggo]

49. The thing is, men of a certain age can be a little unsteady going down ramps or stairs.

I am, and I'm only 58.

But I'm not so insecure about it that I blame the ramp.

[DesertRat]

51. The ramp wasn't "slippery"

“Trump’s claim that the ramp had been ‘very slippery’ was inconsistent with the weather, which on Saturday in West Point, N.Y., was sunny and clear-skied. The grass plain on which the commencement took place was dry.”

Link to tweet

[Blecht]

53. Whiny baby nt

[backscatter712]

55. I've got it! Now I know why he has the half-centaur posture and those elevator shoes...

... Those shoes were actually custom made to hide his hooves.

[July]

56. As if the people at West Point,

preparing the commencement event, would provide a ramp to the podium for the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES that was not just “slippery” but “very slippery.”

Drumpf’s fragile ego has just required him to diss the people who did the work for his vanity show. He’s also too stupid to realize he’s just called more attention to his lying and feebleness.

Pathetic.

[jcgoldie]

57. Waaaaaaahhhhhhhh!

For fucks sake!

[peggysue2]

58. Something of a metaphor

Because Trump and the GOP centaur he rode in on is also facing a political descent, long and steep, sans handrails and most importantly very slippery, the sort of slippery you don't survive as you descend into a political wasteland of your own making.

Enjoy your Momentum to Hell, Donald Trump including all the lackeys, goons and mobsters you brought with you!

Your Friend,

Peggysue

[struggle4progress]

59. Grumps "might whump plump wump on damp ramp. Thump! Bump rump!"

Dump Thump!