{"id":382848,"date":"2026-01-02T04:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382848\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:38:14","slug":"donald-trump-says-exercise-is-boring-would-rather-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382848\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Says Exercise Is Boring, Would Rather Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Donald Trump<br \/>\n                          Vetoes Exercise From His Life<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              January 1, 2026<br \/>\n                            4:28 PM PST<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  January 1, 2026<br \/>\n                                5:51 PM PST\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260101_fdef1604da1e46c398b70eefe2cbe36d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7620979e-0ea1-408e-91b7-8c8bd45d4e75\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fdef1604da1e46c398b70eefe2cbe36d_md.jpg\" alt=\"donald trump no exercise main getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> sees all you gym rats running on your treadmills and he just doesn&#8217;t get it &#8230; he thinks it&#8217;s too boring.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/as-signs-of-aging-emerge-trump-responds-with-defiance-769c5dcd?st=6znwTJ&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, POTUS remarked, &#8220;To walk on a treadmill or run on a treadmill for hours and hours like some people do, that\u2019s not for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He clarified, &#8220;I just don&#8217;t like it. It&#8217;s boring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Despite skipping the health club, Trump is set to turn 80 in June, which could be thanks to one of his favorite pastimes.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know many in business and politics that work out endlessly, in some cases to a point of exhaustion. It is their number one passion in life, but nobody complains. My \u201cexercise\u201d is playing, almost never during the week, a quick round of golf. Obama played more and much longer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1282286508716756993?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 12, 2020<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1282286508716756993\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">he tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;My &#8216;exercise&#8217; is playing, almost never during the week, a quick round of golf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only does he think traditional working out is boring, he&#8217;s previously wondered out loud if it was self-defeating.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251118_12448731ce7a44b2835fb7f8741cacf9\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7620979e-0ea1-408e-91b7-8c8bd45d4e75\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/12448731ce7a44b2835fb7f8741cacf9_md.jpg\" alt=\"donald trump mcdonalds sub instagram\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/O8ta6#selection-1945.651-1945.759\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>, the president argued that people are born with a finite amount of energy and once it&#8217;s exerted, it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know &#8230; there&#8217;s no credibility to that claim, so don&#8217;t cancel that gym membership just yet!<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Vetoes Exercise From His Life Published January 1, 2026 4:28 PM PST | Updated January 1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-382848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}