To be frank, only God himself really, truly knows how tall Donald J. Trump is. We certainly know for a fact that the scandal-plagued former president desperately **wants** to be as tall as possible, with freakishly large hands and the hair of David Hasselhoff circa 1989. But the cold, hard truth is that Donald is actually none of those things.
I mean, we’ve all seen the lifted shoes and the floppy, putrid cotton candy comb-over he tries to pass for hair.
The former president’s physique got a little extra attention late last year, when he was formally arrested, booked, and had his mugshot taken in the state of Georgia, in the sprawling election crimes case against him by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
But even then, no one could ever actually pin down the big guy’s true height. During his New York arrest earlier in the year, on charges brought by Manhattan A Alvin Bragg in the infamous Stormy Daniels hush money case, Trump was listed as 6’2″, 240 pounds. However, just three months later in Georgia, his inmate record recorded him at 6’3″, 215 pounds.
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Now, I could **almost** buy that he lost 25 pounds in 90 days. But no 77-year-old man is growing an entire inch at any point, much less in just 3 months.
And that, of course, doesn’t even take into account the variety of different claims about his height and weight from a multitude of doctors with more than a little greasy palms.
However, if one journalist is correct, we may finally have a cold, hard answer when it comes to Donald Trump’s vertical advantage or lack thereof — and I promise you, Donald is not going to like this at all.
In the wake of the recent funeral for Melania Trump’s mother, journalist Jules Suzdaltsev took to X (formerly known as Twitter) with a rather interesting assessment of the photos that went public, showing Trump flanked by his family, including his teen son, Barron — who has a height of a whopping 6’7″ that is confirmed and a matter of public record.
Now, I don’t personally know how his math works, but according to Suzdaltsev, based on the pixels in the new photo, “Donald Trump is *exactly* 5’11.”
Cue the massive cringe for Trump’s ego.
Jules explains his process behind making this determination in his social media post:
Donald Trump is *exactly* 5’11.
This pic of Barron & Trump makes it trivially easy to compare their heights.
Trump is 458 pixels tall, Barron is 508 pixels tall (you can check).
If Trump were 6’3, Barron would be a hair short of 7ft tall.
But Barron is exactly 6’7… pic.twitter.com/rT8IasOz9B
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) January 19, 2024
Of course, there’s no solid way to verify this with absolute certainty without just literally taking a yard stick to Donald Trump — and, frankly, if I ever got that opportunity, let’s just say I wouldn’t waste it on measuring the guy’s height. But it does certainly seem like Jules’ math and process is pretty sound, and if nothing else, we know it’s going to hurt Trump’s feelings and I consider that a win.
Featured image via screen capture
