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[Jonathan Lighter]

Did I just make this up, or did he say it?

"I am the fittest sick person in the history of our country. "

I guess I made it up.

Or did I?

JL

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 10:31 AM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
wrote:

> This guy's wit and wisdom could fill a book.
>
> “I felt pretty lousy,” Mr. Trump said. But, he added, “I’m back because I’m
> a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young.”
>
> GAT
>
> --
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998.
>
> But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> your lowly tomb. . .
> L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
>
> The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> picture of his great-grandfather.)
>
> http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851
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