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The recurring Trump insults about men's weight and size

You're probably here because of the May 2026 rerun. This is the 6th time since 2017 this story has run. The previous rerun was Nov 2025.

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Donald Trump has repeatedly insulted men's weight, height or size, including a 2017 tweet saying he would never call Kim Jong Un "short and fat," remarks about Michael Bloomberg's height in 2020, comments about Chris Christie's weight in 2023, and repeated remarks about Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's weight from 2024 through 2026.

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May 2026 AI-generated Truth Social image of Pritzker eating

The Journal Star reported that Trump used his Truth Social account on Saturday to "lob yet more attacks at Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker over his weight." The post was an AI-generated image of Pritzker at a table holding "a double cheeseburger in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other." The table also held a "jumbo-sized" bucket of fried chicken, nachos, spaghetti and meatballs, a milkshake and a chili dog. The caption read "JB is too busy to keep Chicago safe!" The same article says it wasn't the first time: in November 2025, at the White House turkey pardon, Trump called Pritzker a "Big, fat slob."

  • truthsocial.com social post
    JB is too busy to keep Chicago safe!
  • Yahoo News article
    Pritzker had not commented on Trump's latest attack on his weight as of publication of this article Monday morning.
  • youtube.com video

Sources: Yahoo News reliable · mediaite.com needs a second source · Yahoo News reliable

Nov 2025 "Big fat slob" remark at the 2025 White House turkey pardon

At the White House turkey pardon on Nov. 25, 2025, President Trump called Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker "a big fat slob" while talking about Chicago crime, according to the Rev transcript. Later in the same speech he mentioned a speechwriter's "joke about his weight" and said, "I refuse to talk about the fact that he's a fat slob." Democracy Now called it fat-shaming, and the Express Tribune said Trump "used the turkey pardon event to mock Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's weight."

  • rev.com statement
    The mayor is incompetent and the governor is a big fat slob.
  • democracynow.org article
    President Trump yesterday turned the annual Thanksgiving holiday turkey pardon into a campaign-style rant against his political enemies and fat-shamed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.
  • tribune.com.pk article
    He followed it with a self-deprecating aside that he "would like to lose a few pounds too."
  • globalnews.ca video Watch transcript
  • c-span.org video Watch
    The mayor is incompetent and the governor is a big fat slob.

Sources: rev.com needs a second source · democracynow.org needs a second source · tribune.com.pk needs a second source

Aug 2025 Trump says Pritzker should "spend more time in the gym"

On Aug. 25, 2025, during Oval Office remarks about a possible National Guard deployment to Chicago, Trump called Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker "a slob" and said he should spend "more time in the gym, actually" (Mediaite transcript; The Hill/NewsNation). A syndicated news report described Trump as "mocking the Illinois governor's weight." The Hill/NewsNation reported that Trump had commented on Pritzker's weight before, including at a 2024 Ohio campaign rally where he said Pritzker was "too busy eating" to lead his state.

  • mediaite.com article
    A slob like Pritzker criticizing us before we even go there.
  • NewsNation article
    It takes one to know one on the weight question,

Sources: Newsweek (pre–2013) needs a second source · mediaite.com needs a second source · NewsNation reliable · Yahoo News reliable

Aug 2023 Trump's remarks about Chris Christie's weight in Windham, New Hampshire

On Aug. 8, 2023, during a speech in a high school gym in Windham, New Hampshire, Trump said of Chris Christie, then running against him for the Republican nomination, "Christie, he's eating right now. He can't be bothered," and then told an audience member not to call Christie "a fat pig" (NBC News; Fox News). NBC News described this as mocking Christie "over his eating habits and his weight," and Fox News called it "just the latest instance" of Trump poking fun at Christie's weight. Fox cited earlier Truth Social posts, including a June 2023 post asking whether Christie had "a psychological problem with SIZE." The same day, Trump posted that he had been "extremely respectful of Sloppy Chris Christie today in New Hampshire" (Fox News).

  • NBC News article
    "Sir, please do not call him a fat pig. I’m trying to be nice. Don’t call him a fat pig," Trump said. "You can’t do that.”
  • Fox News article
    "I was extremely respectful of Sloppy Chris Christie today in New Hampshire,"
  • NBC News article
    "He’s such a hot mess," Christie said. "And he’s like, talking to me about what I look like.
  • NBC News video Watch
    he's eating right now.
  • c-span.org video Watch

Sources: NBC News reliable · Fox News needs a second source · Fox News needs a second source · Axios reliable

Feb 2020 "Mini Mike" remarks about Michael Bloomberg's height

In a Feb. 13, 2020 tweet, Trump called Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg "a 5'4" mass of dead energy" and added "No boxes please." Earlier, in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity that aired before the Feb. 2 Super Bowl, Trump called Bloomberg "very little" and said he "wants a box for the debates to stand on." The Bloomberg campaign answered: "The president is lying." The AP fact-checked the height claim and reported that Bloomberg's doctor put him at 5 feet 7 inches. PolitiFact rated as False a viral photo, posted the same day as the tweet, that had been altered to make Bloomberg look much shorter next to Trump. On Feb. 2, Bloomberg press secretary Julie Wood said: "The president is lying. He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan." (FOX 32). The AP reported that Bloomberg answered the Feb. 13 tweet with his own tweet, quoted there as: "Behind your back they laugh at you & call you a carnival barking clown." The AP also reported that at a Greensboro, North Carolina rally, Bloomberg said, "He calls me Little Mike and the answer is, 'Donald, where I come from we measure your height from your neck up.'" The AP fact check said "Bloomberg is not that short," citing his doctor's December letter (5 feet 7 inches) and New York newspaper reports of 5-6 to just under 5-8. It also said Trump's own height "has been a moving target." PolitiFact said the original photo, from the New York Observer's 25th anniversary in March 2013, shows "Bloomberg's head clears Trump's chin."

  • Washington Examiner article
    "Mini Mike is a 5’4” mass of dead energy who does not want to be on the debate stage with these professional politicians," … "No boxes please. He hates Crazy Bernie and will, with enough money, possibly stop him. Bernie’s people will go nuts!"
  • fox32chicago.com article
    [He's] very little. I just think of little. You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on.
  • PolitiFact article
    A photo of Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg has been altered to make Bloomberg look shorter.
  • x.com video Watch
    Very little. I just think of little. Now he wants a box for the debates to stand on ... he wants a box for the debates! Why should he be entitled to that?

Sources: Washington Examiner needs a second source · seattletimes.com needs a second source · PolitiFact reliable · fox32chicago.com needs a second source

Nov 2017 "Short and fat" tweet about Kim Jong Un

Trump tweeted from Hanoi during his Asia tour: "Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me 'old,' when I would NEVER call him 'short and fat?' Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend — and maybe someday that will happen!" (CNBC, BuzzFeed News, Newsweek). CNBC reported he was responding to a North Korean Foreign Ministry statement that called his South Korea speech "reckless remarks by an old lunatic." Times of Israel (AFP) described the tweet as Trump "taunting the North Korean leader over his height and weight."

  • Newsweek (pre–2013) article
    On Twitter, critics compared the spat to an exchange between high school students
  • timesofisrael.com article
    taunting the North Korean leader over his height and weight before musing over the idea of them eventually becoming friends.
  • buzzfeednews.com article
    Might be a strange thing to happen but it's certainly a possibility,
  • NBC News video Watch transcript
    Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me 'old,' when I would NEVER call him 'short and fat?' Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend — and maybe someday that will happen!

Sources: cnbc.com reliable · Fox News needs a second source · Newsweek (pre–2013) needs a second source · timesofisrael.com needs a second source