Donald Trump has joked that he must be 'careful' not to overtake William Howard Taft as America's heaviest president, after a recent medical assessment put Trump at 238lb, just shy of the BMI threshold for obesity. The president made the remark while appearing on 'Story Time with the Second Lady,' a children's podcast, where he told young listeners to 'keep yourself in good shape.'
After Trump's latest check-up, showed he has gained 14lb since April last year. Taft, who served as US president from 1909 to 1913, was famously heavy throughout his adult life. He was about 6ft tall and weighed 243lb on leaving college, later believed to have exceeded 330lb in office, according to the National Constitution Center. Taft's size has long been a historical curiosity. Trump's, by contrast, is now a live political and medical talking point.
