Well, we now know a lot more about the health effects of lack of sleep than we did in like, the 1970s, which is when he started. And, I imagine if you're otherwise very healthy and "acclimate" to the short sleep schedule, you don't really notice the signals that you're running on a deficit.

I think people also thought that there were wider ranges of acceptable sleep, depending on the person, and it's turning out that's not true.

All of this "no, really, literally everyone needs eight hours of sleep every single night of their life no exceptions or it will actually kill you dead" has only come to light in the past two decades.

Going by the comments here, a lot of people think this way.

Yeah, hopefully people will take this as a wake-up call and start sleeping properly. Being obsessive about your health probably won't do much good, but I think you could ask any aging multimillionaire about whether it's worth more to take reasonable care of yourself or to work a little bit harder. Unless you are on the steets, money just isn't worth that much compared to good health. And you don't really need to kill yourself to make it to an UMC income in most circumstances if your IQ is around the hackernews average (my opinion)

Lots of people feel like if you could pul off 4 hrs sleep a night you should. Donald Trump has been touting his ability to do it for decades.

He’s a specimen of good mental and physical health too!

He's not bad for 71. If he read more and did more than just watch cable news, he'd be pretty sharp imo. My point was it was/is a holy grail of sorts. Not many could 'pull it off,' but if you manage to...

Not bad? He is obese and incoherent.

His reported go-to order from McDonalds (and he loves to eat fast food) is "two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fishes, and a large chocolate shake." Do you want to go ahead and calculate the calories on that meal or shall I?

Even if he were in good health, it would be in spite of his lifestyle, not because of it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-mcdonalds-order-review...

Kind of worthless to point out unless he's doing this on a regular basis. That slideshow certainly doesn't mention it.

I absolutely binge at McDonalds too, and more impressively than Trump, but I go a handful of times per year. That's the whole treat.

You couldn't use my receipt to pinpoint my physical health.

Because you think he would eat a healthy meal otherwise and only has that kind of junk from McDonalds?

> “on Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke.”

> Trump was also apparently demanding of the in-flight snack selection. The plane was regularly stocked with “Vienna Fingers, potato chips, pretzels, and many packages of Oreos because Trump, a renowned germaphobe, would not eat from a previously opened package,” the Post reports.

https://www.eater.com/2017/12/4/16733356/trump-fast-food-die...

I'm sure he's such a healthy eater even though people who have worked for him say otherwise, that and the fact that he is obese.

http://kwotable.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_6083-1280...

How can you offer an opinion to the contrary when you don't take 5 seconds to google "fast food" and "trump".

He even forced the US taxpayer to pay for golf cart rentals because he refuses to walk between holes. That's about the lowest-impact type of exercise you could get.