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If it makes you feel any better in a weird way, Donald Trump supposedly sleeps only 4-5 hours a night and he’s 72 years old and healthy.

https://www.businessinsider.com/some-people-only-need-a-few-...

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Well, first, almost everything Donald says is a lie or an exaggeration and I doubt he sleeps 4-5 hours a night. Maybe on some nights but only he knows how much he sleeps. Second, I don't know how healthy he is, he seems like his mental faculties have declined drastically over the years. I watched some earlier Donald interviews and he was a lot more articulate and certainly seemed a whole lot more thoughtful, he was bragging less, etc. He totally lost that ability to control himself.

His Twitter timestamps lend some credence to his claims about his sleep. Not that anyone could believe he's doing anything productive in those hours.

That still doesn't tell the whole truth. If I wake up every day at 4 am, how much do i sleep?? Well, you can't tell because you have no information on when I go to sleep.

That could be because he's come up with a very interesting theory about how exercise is bad for you because "the human body [is] like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only deplete[s].”[0] He's still running on a full charge, while most men his age are near empty.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump...

Sounds like lack of sleep does funny things to his head.

Mentally or physically healthy?

I would honestly question both but I'd bet money he isn't physically healthy.

Well I for one would love to have that kind of energy at this age. He's getting close to the average life expectancy by now so all in all it's fair to say he has lived a fairly healthy life? At this given moment he might not be though and we won't know unless something happens.

I'm not sure it is an example that go in the sense you think it goes.

It's actually thanks to his healthy McDonalds based diet.

it may be more accurate to attribute his longevity to his genes, instead of his reportedly rather poor lifestyle habits. his father lived to somewhere in his mid 90's.

Due to wealth genetics. More money = better living conditions = less environment negativity

“But while the new report may lift concerns about an early death, it still links insomnia with illnesses such as dementia and depression...”

is this satire?

Donald Trump is alive and he’s 72, and sleeps 4-5 hours a night. That’s all I’m stating. It was the first example that came to mind. I’m sure there’s others, I just recalled this article.

I guess it’s like mentioning that Obama’s left handed when I say I’m left handed, conservatives would give me a weird look for comparing myself to Obama in any way, however benign.

You described trump as healthy not just alive at 72. Trump's doctor admits the report on trump's health was fake. So I'm not sure what you're basing the healthy comment on.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607638733...

4-5 hours a night according to Donald Trump.

I would not trust anything that man or his person physician claims about him.

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