


President Donald Trump grunted through his ad nauseam impression of a female weightlifter struggling to hoist a barbell against a transgender opponent on Thursday ― and critics wished he would just drop the “embarrassing” and “tired” routine already. (Watch the video below.)
In his graduation speech at the University of Alabama, the president revved up his rhetoric against transgender women in sports.
“As long as I’m president, we will always protect women’s sports,” he said. “Men will not play in women’s sports.”
He also spouted misinformation about two boxers at the Paris Olympics who were born as female but were falsely reported to be transgender.
However, it was his tasteless gag that caught the attention of many on social media.
Trump plays a young woman trying to break a lifting record by a tiny amount in front of her proud parents. She tries with all her might but gives up in what Trump portrays as breathless surrender. “Then a guy comes along, or a gal, whatever,” the president sneered. “A transitions person comes along and he was a failed weightlifter as a man.” The opponent easily lifts barbell and “breaks the record by like 119 pounds,” Trump continued. “That’s not right.”
One critic dubbed it the “ORGASMIC WEIGHTLIFTER routine” and another wondered how long “gasbag” Trump has been doing the bit.
Well, we know he’s done it often enough for Jimmy Kimmel to put together a supercut of it.
Check out reactions to Trump’s latest “cringe”-inducing try at levity: