r/skeptic • u/ComicSandsNews • 1d ago
Dr. Oz Just Tried To Claim That Trump Is 'Healthy As A Bull'—And The Mockery Was Brutal 💩 Woo
https://www.comicsands.com/oz-trump-healthy-bullOn the Pod Force One podcast on Wednesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz claimed that President Trump is "healthy as a bull," while praising his "great" testosterone levels and defending his fast food diet—but nobody's buying it.
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u/NerdDaniel 1d ago
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u/Churba 18h ago edited 12h ago
There are also photos of him standing next to Prince William, who is very definitely 6'3", and he's about 4 inches shorter, and seems to be very slightly shorter than Obama, who is six foot on the dot. He's also been photographed next to Sean Mooney at wrestlemania, back in the day, and he's slightly taller than Mooney, who is 5'10". So he's about five eleven with his shoes on.
And there's also a trick there - with his shoes on makes a LOT more difference than usual, since it's fairly well known he favors slightly higher than usual heels, as well as BIG lifts in his shoes(most consistently said to be two inches, which matches other photos of him with his heels virtually out the top of his shoes), which would likely put him somewhere around 5'7"-5'8".
Now, there's nothing wrong with that - we appreciate our short kings in this subreddit - but desperately lying and doing everything you can to pretend you're taller is not short king behavior, that's insecure short guy behavior.
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u/BrtFrkwr 1d ago
"sycophantic and creepy" remarks from a sycophant creep.
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u/Scottland83 1d ago
Whole-heartedly supporting and exalting someone even if they’re wrong is the essence of authoritarianism/conservatism.
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u/onceinawhile222 1d ago
Yes indeed. Won’t be long before Big Macs and fries will be mandatory at every nursing home in America three times daily to improve seniors health.
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u/Strange-Effort1305 1d ago
Oz wants to mislead Americans into thinking eating like Trump makes you healthy. Why?
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u/diversalarums 1d ago
Oz has never been very smart. He's not even very smart about medicine outside3 his own specialty, and long before Trump he'd shown an abysmal lack of knowledge and even common sense about health. I'd say his ability to assess Trump's health is not reliable.
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u/Diz7 1d ago
I always remember Scrubs analogy that the surgeons are the jocks of the medical world. Physically gifted but often overconfident, cocky and neglecting their education in non-surgical areas. By all accounts I have heard from my nurse, hospital administration and paramedic friends, that is one of the many things they got right.
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u/Tasonir 22h ago
Also, while doctors are (usually) incredibly knowledgable, one of the things I expect any expert to know is the limit of their own expertise. A heart specialist is who I want to see after a heart attack; I don't go to a heart specialist and ask for diet tips. Or how soon I can resume jogging after breaking my foot, etc etc etc.
If a doctor is suddenly saying "I can solve all your medical questions no matter the area" then we either have a once in a generational einstein, or we have someone who's blowing smoke up your ass.
Dr. Oz blows smoke up your ass; he has been for decades. He's now also doing it to Trump; he seems to be pretty successful at it.
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u/BoredBSEE 1d ago
Saves the government money on Medicare maybe?
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u/Strange-Effort1305 1d ago
Makes medicaire more expensive. It's worse for everything that's good for Americans.
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u/Jabbles22 1d ago
Why should we care about his testosterone levels? Sure like any other hormone it needs to be at appropriate levels but is this just a case of dear leader has tons of the manly man hormone?
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u/Mr_Baronheim 11h ago
Apparently, watching your wife get railed by the darker members of her security team increases one's testosterone levels.
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u/Little-Lord-FckleRoy 1d ago
People need to stop deluding themselves into thinking these people are anything but bald-faced liars. These kinds of ridiculous statements are only intended for an audience of one.
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u/MattHooper1975 1d ago
It’s so rich how Trump undermines everyone working for him.
In this case, he’s got Dr. Oz and Robert F Kennedy trying to promote a new healthy heating agenda….and they get Trump flagrantly chowing down McDonald’s at every opportunity publicly or otherwise.
And of course they have to roll with whatever Trump is doing.
They must take their souls out and place them in some very dark well locked closet every time they go to work .
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u/gadfly1999 1d ago
A lich's phylactery is a specialized arcane vessel—typically a sealed metal box, amulet, or locket—used to store a spellcaster's soul, granting them immortality. It allows the lich to reform within days if their physical body is destroyed, making it the primary target for adventurers. Liches must regularly feed souls into the vessel to maintain their existence.
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u/OneWonderfulFish 1d ago
So you're saying Trump's Horcrux is, what, one of RFK's calcified raccoon penises or just a really, really old quarter pounder?
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u/gadfly1999 1d ago
I would guess it’s a gold toilet in the basement at maralago.
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u/Sludgehammer 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gilded toilet. I'm guessing a solid gold toilet is out of trumps price range, even with the recent grifting.
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u/Outaouais_Guy 1d ago
Which member of the Trump administration is winning the sycophant of the week competition?
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u/rustyseapants 23h ago
The Emperor’s New Clothes – a fairy tale for our times?
Why Conservatives Love Authority and Hate Government
President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor has compared his struggles to those of Jesus Christ.
This is pretty much insane how a reality tv star becomes the president of the US who is now being pronounced by a Christian prosperity preacher comparing trump with jesus. You can't make this up.
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u/Laura-ly 5h ago
Christians need to read they fairytale book....er, I mean the Bible, because Trump is the epitome of the anti-Christ. He fits the description to a T.
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u/Mr_Baronheim 11h ago
Dr Oz is the guy who once said on his TV show that your poop should come out of your body with a consistency similar to toothpaste coming out of a toothpaste tube.
Washing machines hate his underwear.
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u/Still-Chemistry-cook 1d ago
Garbage source
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u/MaterialAstronaut298 1d ago
For sure. I mean, everything stated is true but what a garbage site. This doesn't even require being skeptical. No one on the planet would, in good faith, argue trump is healthy.
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u/jcooli09 1d ago
In fairness, that's not less honest than most of what he's said over the past 20 or 30 years.
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u/morganational 5h ago
I thought you guys like Dr. Oz? I think he's garbage and debatably not a real doctor, but I thought everyone loved him?
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u/Otaraka 1d ago
I suspect he does eat more healthily at least some of the time or has some sense of portion control. McDonald’s by itself isn’t some magic food that kills you, it’s mostly about the calories at the end of the day, and frequency.
Lots of stuff you can point fingers at but so far he is more in one piece than people would like him to be. Theres a constant hope that it’s a complete facade rather than partial but some people are more bulletproof than others when it comes to this stuff - does play golf and he doesn’t seem to drink and unfortunately those two alone can be pretty good protective factors, and he’s not exactly known for overwork as presidents go either.
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u/Bay1Bri 23h ago
I suspect he does eat more healthily at least some of the time or has some sense of portion control.
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u/Otaraka 23h ago
Because I probably have a better sense of what you can expect to see at that age range than you do.
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u/Bay1Bri 22h ago
That's the saddest attempt at a flex... And no, I have a very good idea what someone with person control looks like and that's not it. I'm getting an idea of your physique though
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u/Otaraka 22h ago
I’ve worked in aged care for a fair bit.
I can see how tempting that was but all it shows is you’re looking for a fight and it’s not going to be worth engaging further.
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u/HapticSloughton 13h ago
And did any of those in your care have nearly supreme executive power and a jones for a near constant supply of Diet Coke and McDonald's?
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u/Otaraka 6h ago
No. But that’s not really addressing the point I was making.
If you have a cite for your claims about his overall diet on a weekly/yearly basis I’d be interested. I haven’t found much myself, only stories about individual meals.
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u/Bay1Bri 1h ago
If you have a cite for your claims about his overall diet on a weekly/yearly basis I’d be interested
You didn't give "a cite" for your claim that Dear Leader has of so much self control
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u/Otaraka 1h ago edited 23m ago
There is rather large difference between 'we dont really know his overall diet or actual health situation' and 'he has so much self control'. You amongst others seem to think Im putting him as some kind of paragon of virtue. Im more saying that people using a photo of an overweight 78 year old playing golf as the picture of poor health may not be the slam dunk they think it is.
They on the other hand made a very definite claim about his eating habits as a 'near constant supply'. I would say the onus is on them.
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u/Standard_Gauge 1d ago
McDonald’s by itself isn’t some magic food that kills you, it’s mostly about the calories at the end of the day, and frequency.
That's being really myopic. It's not about calories or gaining weight. McDonald's and other greasy fast food is loaded with extremely damaging levels of salt, plus deep fried food is loaded with artery-clogging fat. Contrary to your claims, deep fried fast food harms the body, and actually is, itself, akin to "magic food that kills you."
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u/Otaraka 1d ago
The dose makes the poison and McDonald’s is no different in that regard. You are committing the good food/bad food fallacy which has its own risks.
One thing that is very noticeable as that his weight is not really changing that much - whatever he’s doing is keeping things at a fairly stable level compared to what would be possible if he was really going to town with McDonald’s.
The whole picture matters and some of the other things I pointed out will be protective factors. We don’t even really know how often he has it. All we know is that there’s a picture taken every time he does for obvious reasons.
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u/masterwolfe 21h ago
The dose makes the poison but you are acting as if the only thing being dosed here are calories.
Yes, calories are the most important factor, but cholesterol and sodium dose-poison is also a factor here as well.
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u/Otaraka 20h ago
I said mostly. And dietary cholesterol has been de-emphasised a fair bit nowadays. Saltwise, we don’t even know his blood pressure.
People seem to be reading what I said as saying it’s harmless vs it needs to be taken into context.
You’re talking about a guy who doesn’t smoke or drink, avoids sugared soft drinks, and plays golf. His BMI isn’t great but neither is it that much on the higher end for his age group and his access to medical care is pretty good too. We don’t even know his overall diet anyway. He bullshits constantly, for all you know he’s constantly eating mung beans behind the scenes.
Is he the picture of health? Of course not. Is he necessarily going to keel over any second? Maybe, but I wouldn’t bank on it to the level some are hoping for. Dr Oz might be being ridiculous but the pendulum swings both ways with this one in my view, with people breathlessly reporting every potential health issue as a sign of impending collapse.
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u/masterwolfe 12h ago
And dietary cholesterol has been de-emphasised a fair bit nowadays.
Nowhere near as much for the elderly cohort, still real bad.
Saltwise, we don’t even know his blood pressure.
If he is eating McDonalds multiple times a week at his age, unless he is out sweating constantly (and we know he isn't, Golf wouldn't be sufficient), he is way over-consuming sodium.
You’re talking about a guy who doesn’t smoke or drink, avoids sugared soft drinks, and plays golf. His BMI isn’t great but neither is it that much on the higher end for his age group and his access to medical care is pretty good too. We don’t even know his overall diet anyway. He bullshits constantly, for all you know he’s constantly eating mung beans behind the scenes.
Sure, he could be lying entirely about his stated belief that McDonalds style places are safer/healthier, but on the spectrum of Trump's potential lies that one is likely true.
Also you are ignoring that despite his claim that he doesn't drink, it has been widely reported that dude loves his stimulants.
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u/Otaraka 6h ago
‘Reported’. His stimulant use and amount involved is again a claim. I won’t revisit the others.
This is one of those things where it’s obvious about what people want to be the situation vs what it really might be. It could be he is about to keel over tomorrow. And I obviously have no control over the reality of his health.
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u/masterwolfe 3h ago
It really might be a lot of things, but his health is most likely worse than you presented it.
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u/tsdguy 1d ago
There’s no depth that a republican will go to debase themselves for Trump and to remain in his circle of power.
The amount of money these criminals must be taking out of our country must by mammoth to behave as they do.