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Trump Doubles-Down on Ramp-Gate: Says West Point Ramp Was Incredibly Slippery, Like an ‘Ice Skating Rink’

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‘This will come as news to the general from West Point who walked ably down the “ice-skating rink” ramp that led Trump down from the podium.

It should also come as news to the West Point grounds crew, because one would think that a fairly “by the book” group like the military, one that often faces “safety issues” while on the job, would be able to accomplish the engineering required to build a ramp that wasn’t a danger to the President of the United States on his visit to the campus.

But yes, surprising though it must seem to everyone, Trump says that the ramp was slick as a skating rink. Trump just won’t let this shit go, according to the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, via Rawstory:

“So I’m going to go real easy. So I did. And then the last 10 feet I ran down,” said Trump. “They always stop it just before I ran, they always stop it. So, I spent three hours between speeches and saluting people and they end up, all they talked about is ramp … If you would have seen this ramp, it was like an ice skating rink. So I’m the only one that can happen.”

“So I’m the only one that can happen.” President of the United States.

You know, it is almost like he doth protest a shitload too much? I am starting to think that the old boy is just kind of a feeble, fat, dotard, which isn’t nice, but this is getting old.

The Atlantic has the definitive breakdown on Trump’s health, but then concludes that it’s all too tough to figure out from a distance, especially when there is already a ton of information out in the public to establish that Trump isn’t fit for office, ask any of his former top aides, Bolton, Kelly, Mattis, and Tillerson, none of them (and that is quite the group) think he is fit.

The ramp was not especially steep, and it’s unclear why it would have been slippery—a general next to Trump didn’t stumble. And the president’s post just made the story fair game to cover. Beyond that, Trump’s repeated claims that Joe Biden is too old and doddering for the presidency mean that his own struggles will get additional scrutiny.

Yet there remains little actual information about Trump’s health on which to base any conclusions. This is not the first time questions have come up. Reporters puzzled over Trump’s handling of stairs in early 2017. In November 2017, he seemed to struggle with drinking from a water bottle at the White House. In November 2019, the president made a sudden and largely unexplained visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington, D.C. But official reports from the president’s physicians paint a picture of almost miraculous good health.

So, yes, we don’t need any talk of his feebleness to discern he’s unfit for office. But something is wrong because there is no conceivable way that West Point Academy would have allowed a ramp to be built that was unsafe, or even slightly difficult to a normal person. No. Way.

Right.

That’s our point.

Don’t know what they’re after but we saw enough:

If you listen to Trump, this is exactly what it sounds like.

So funny.

Yes, that is the point. It’s not an issue until Trump made it one. Last, the people at West Point must have had a heads-up on Trump’s condition or Trump wouldn’t have had an escort at his side the entire way down. That isn’t protocol.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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