As per usual, Trump was almost surely confused when he insulted any number of people who worked around him. The president travels with quite the entourage (something you know he just loved) and it is likely that Trump assumed that everyone in that entourage was a Secret Service Agent, all there to take a bullet for him and act like ninjas if anyone threatened him. Good lord, the eternally paranoid man must have loved it.

But the fat guy didn’t want any fat guys around him protecting him according to a new book as reported by Mediaite, written by Carol Leonnig of the Washington Post, which reveals Trump saying:

“I want these fat guys off my detail,” Trump once said, according to an excerpt of Leonnig’s book obtained by The Guardian. “How are they going to protect me and my family if they can’t run down the street?”

He may have been confused about those who are assigned to office roles, as opposed agents who would normally be assigned to protect him, according to the book.

The agency has rigorous fitness standards for agents in the field, with tests involving push-ups, chin-ups, sit-ups, and a timed 1.5-mile run, according to the Secret Service’s website.

We find it somewhat amusing to wonder what would have happened had a Secret Service Agent pointed out, “Why would we have to run down the street if the guy we’re supposed to protect would be hiding under the car?” But this is just so typical Trump. Body types don’t quite reveal what that body can do. Moreover, Trump should have assumed that no matter who looked like what, there was no better protective force on earth.

Besides, if one is going to offend anyone in a group around him, the single last people one wants to offend are the people assigned to save your life. Just, you know, good policy.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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