President Donald Trump appeared to laugh off the latest threat from Iran against him when he might have accidentally spilled the beans on his glowing, warm skin color after he admitted he hasn't sunbathed since he was a wee little boy.
During an impromptu presser at the White House, President Trump took a host of questions from reporters, and one came from Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy, who asked him about a threat from the Islamic State against the President following the successful airstrikes on several Iranian nuclear facilities.
WATCH: @realDonaldTrump shrugs off an alleged threat from Iran that he can no longer safely sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago anymore. The president's response? He hasn't sunbathed since he was "around 7 or so." pic.twitter.com/wrFCbVgntC
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Something clearly gets lost in the translation, but here's what Doocy said when he referenced a comment from an Iranian official. Doocy said the person said, "You, President Trump, have done something so that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago. As you lie there with your stomach to the sun, a small drone might hit you in the navel. It's very simple."
He then pressed Trump if he thought it was a real threat, and also when the last time the president had sunbathed. Trump just smiled and then responded.
"It's been a long time. It's been a long time," the president admitted, as he sat there with what appeared to be a sun-kissed glow. "I don't know, maybe I was around seven or so. I'm not too big into it."
"I guess it's a threat," he added. "I'm not sure it's a threat, actually, but perhaps it is."
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There's been a bit of back and forth lately between Trump and Iranian leaders. Following Operation Midnight Hammer and Trump's announcement that Iran's nuclear capabilities had been obliterated, the "Islamist nation's "Supreme Leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, released a delusional video message claiming "total victory," RedState reported.
Then, during a recent White House event, Trump responded to Khamenei's claim of victory and said, "You got beat to hell."
The president was asked about the successful airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and Khamenei's message after the bombing.
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"I am putting out a little statement, I am going to respond to the Ayatollah's statement yesterday that we won the war," Trump told members of the press. "I said, 'Look, you're a man of great faith, a man who is highly respected in his Country, you have to tell the truth. You got beat to hell."
"And Israel is beat up, too. They were both beat up," he added. "It was a great time to end it."
The president's glowing look has been a point of discussion, in some circles, for at least a decade, with many speculating as to how he accomplishes it, suggesting he uses spray tans and tanning beds to get his special color, as the Mirror reported.
The outlet wrote:
However, makeup artist Kriss Blevens, who has made up every President since Jimmy Carter, including Trump – recently concluded that Trump's color comes from self-tanner. "Because I have done Trump's makeup several times, I can tell you that, at times, his face looked bronzer than the rest of him, and that was before makeup," she told Fast Company. "My guess was he relied on some self-tanners to try to maintain a certain look that he'd come to feel healthy in from living in Florida."
Others have rightly pointed out that the president is an avid golfer and, most likely, gets some pretty good rays of sunshine while playing on the course.
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