The Internet is not buying Donald Trump's booking weight.
The 77-year-old's weight was revealed after he surrendered on charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
According to Fulton County jail records, Trump tipped the scales at 215 pounds Thursday.
Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner declared, "215 pounds? No f—ing way!"
One X user wrote, "Him lying on that form should be another charge."
The former president's Thursday weight was 25 pounds lighter -- and he was an inch taller -- than when he was booked in Manhattan in April. It's also nearly 30 pounds lighter than his weight during his last official White House physical in 2020.
News anchors were confused with one saying, "Lamar Jackson and Donald Trump both list their stats as 6’3″ 215 pounds," comparing the former president to the Baltimore Ravens quarterback.
Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had his weight listed at 240 pounds.
It's not clear if Trump, who has attacked other people for being fat, stepped on a scale or perhaps self-reported his statistics. In any event, "the numbers may not be reliable," according to The Washington Post.
"What's not clear is where officials with the Fulton County Sheriff's Office got [the numbers]," The Post reported.
Bill Hallsworth, the director of jail and court services for the Georgia Sheriffs' Association, told The Post that while he's not familiar with Fulton's practices, some counties take information from driver's licenses, which can be outdated.
"I know in some of the larger jails, the person doing the data entry is not even looking at the individual," he said. "They're getting the info off of something else and entering it into the computer."
ABC News reported that Trump's height and weight were "pre-reported in order to speed up the [booking] process."
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