If a member of Congress in his late 60s or in his 70s was appearing at political rallies shirtless it seems like that would be newsworthy. If a President of the United States was falsely claiming that had happened, it would be newsworthy, if not raising question of invoking the 25th Amendment. And yet Donald Trump’s claim that 77-year-old Rep. Mike Kelly attending rallies shirtless has been ignored by the press. A press that intently focuses on all sorts of minutia surrounding Trump and his administration. On Wednesday, at an Oval Event about car emissions standards, Donald Trump said this:
Mike used to come to my rallies all the time and we’d have a rally. It was like zero degrees. It was freezing everywhere. And he’d sit there without a shirt on. And I didn’t need that. I didn’t say it was pretty, but he would sit there in the cold and he didn’t mind it at all. I said, “That’s one tough cookie, right?”
As he said that, Republican members of Congress laughed. Rep. Kelly responded, “You lit it up. We didn’t need any heat. You were there.”
We couldn’t find any evidence that is true, which it seems like there would be.
This isn’t the first time Donald Trump has made this type of claim. Here he was speaking at an event in Pennsylvania, which is the state Rep. Kelly represents a district in, in May:
Mike Kelly. Where’s Mike? He’s wearing a shirt today. A lot of times he doesn’t. If it’s cold, he doesn’t’ wear shirts. Thank you, Mike.
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