The New York Daily News reports:
Blame it on my leather shoes — and the hot sun! President Trump crept along his stage in front of a crowd of supporters Saturday and tossed back a glass of water in an effort explain away his infamous struggles walking down a ramp and lifting a cup during a graduation speech at West Point. Trump claimed he was hampered by “leather-bottomed shoes” when he gingerly walked down a ramp after delivering the commencement address.
“It was like an ice skating rink,” Trump said. “It’s brutal.” He explained that he pleaded with a general to help guide him down the ramp so he wouldn’t fall and embarass himself on national television. Trump also sought to explain away his difficulty lifting a glass of water to drink during the same commencement address. “They said you couldn’t lift the glass of water to your lips,” Trump said. “I just saluted 600 times.”
Trump Christians went from worshiping someone who could walk on water—to someone who can successfully drink it with tremendous practice.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) June 21, 2020
The degenerate left claimed President Trump had health issues after drinking water with 2 hands.
Today he drank with one and tossed the glass to the side! ?
GREATEST. PRESIDENT. EVER. pic.twitter.com/0EAGff1Bhb
— DeAnna Lorraine ?? (@DeAnna4Congress) June 21, 2020
Trump lifted a glass of water with one hand? Wow MAGA. He also single handedly got 120K Americans killed by slowing down COVID testing, to mask the problem. That one hand sure has been busy.
— JeremyNewberger (@jeremynewberger) June 21, 2020
Trump drinks some water. The crowd goes wild. pic.twitter.com/Sv9Z7GxrAV
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) June 21, 2020
After a rant about how he can *definitely* drink a glass of water normally, Pres. Trump demonstrated by taking a sip and flinging a half-full cup across the stage. Supporters at his rally in Tulsa, OK erupted into cheers. pic.twitter.com/XzCMstsfoc
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 21, 2020
Trump drank from a glass of water and the crowd chanted Four More Years.
Cult. This is a cult.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) June 21, 2020
Trump drinks a small glass of water with one hand; the crowd goes wild. One step removed from the dictator of Turkmenistan: pic.twitter.com/i8x5T9f4N4
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) June 21, 2020
Trump giving us a window into a mind that is a lot more upset about people making fun of how he drinks water than the 120,000 Americans who have died.
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 21, 2020
New Trump 2020 slogan:
“He can drink a glass of water with ONE HAND. Not all the time, but SOMETIMES.”
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) June 21, 2020
Schmidt: I think we see the enfeeblement of the Trump movement here with this lethargic speech. We hear him talking for 15 minutes trying to explain his shuffle down the ramp at West Point, trying to explain why he had such difficulty drinking water. pic.twitter.com/JVsRirhFFJ
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 21, 2020
We’re now 10 minutes into an explanation for Trump hobbling down the ramp at West Point. You’ve never seen insecurity like this.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 21, 2020
Trump now walking the crowd through a painfully long explanation of how the West Point ramp was truly one of the world’s most treacherous expanses rivaling only the land-mined slopes of the Vietnamese foothills west of Denang.
For real, he has been on this for 10 minutes.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 21, 2020
At this rate, they’ll devote an entire night of the convention to Trump’s ramp crisis.
Hannity breaking down the video Zapruder-style. Gaetz with a tight fifteen minutes on how ramps endanger our children. Don Jr yelling how ramps are a Soros-paid conspiracy to turn dogs gay.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 21, 2020