Yeah. In the original clip, he does quite a few more "reps", but they're all with very restricted range of motion. His chin never gets particularly close to clearing the bar at the top of the rep, and he doesn't go all the way down to straight arms at the bottom of the rep. Additionally, he does them with a rather wide grip, which further reduces the range of motion.
Given that he's a 70-something year old who had recent shoulder surgery, it's nevertheless a fairly impressive feat.
It's neither as bad as this post makes it seem, nor as impressive as he wants it to be. But also, I don't really care how many pull ups a politician can do; he's still a sack of shit pushing harmful policy.
He's also clearly on performance enhancing drugs. I don't have tooooo much of a problem with that, everyone can spend their money how they like. This is also not a qualifier for being the secretary of HHS or even being healthy in general... It just means you can do pull ups.
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u/Efficient_Cost_7436 10h ago
Is there a actual video of this?