Trump lied about his height to dodge ‘obese’ category: Book

Published January 5, 2018 5:09pm ET



A new book claims that President Trump has been lying about his height in order to avoid being categorized as obese.

“An overweight seventy-year-old man with various physical phobias (for instance, he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese), he personally found healthcare and medical treatments of all kids a distasteful subject,” Michael Wolff wrote in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

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