Stayed trim by smoking, at least at the beginning. Media hid it. Sometimes they wrote about it, but did you ever see a photo? And IIRC he still uses tobacco, just switched to snus or dipping or both. So he could still die young of a weird jaw cancer. That's the Left's hero.  Can you imagine if there was a mainstream R candidate still smoking in the 2000s? They would be crucified in the media. It would be all "evil white tobacco growers!" this and "Bad role model!" that. I get so mad when I think about how the media covered for Obama, Holder etc. Google Eric Holder and conflict of interest: even lefty publications were screeching about it eventually. Like there are more important things than skin color. Character, for example.