Trump talks about his weight, JFK’s looks as he goes off-script while ‘reading’ kids’ books with Usha Vance

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President Donald Trump mused on his own reading habits, his waistline, and John Kennedy’s good looks in a new interview with Second Lady Usha Vance.

The 80-year-old president sat down with Vance for her Storytime podcast — centered on promoting child literacy — in a conversation taped inside the Oval Office and released Friday.

Asked whether he finds time to read, Trump offered a characteristically self-referential answer, saying he consumes “mostly newspapers” and gravitates toward “stories about myself.”

Trump then flipped through a children’s book about American presidents, reading aloud and pausing at times to riff. Stopping on a page about John Kennedy, he said, “He was a great guy, handsome, he was the second-most-good looking president, they say.”

When reading about William Howard Taft — the famously hefty 27th president — Trump joked that he needs to watch his own weight.

During a podcast interview with Usha Vance, Donald Trump said he needs to ‘be careful’ that he doesn’t ‘supersede’ Howard Taft’s record as the heaviest president in US history (Storytime with the Second Lady, YouTube)

“William Taft was a large man,” Trump said. “Very large. Loved the hotdogs at the baseball games. He was our heaviest president, and I have to be careful because I don’t want to supersede his record. That would be possible if I allowed it to happen. Keep yourself in good shape.”

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