BMI is not a worthless model for the average person. It provides a tool and scale for understanding approximately appropriate weights for individuals aiming to be of reasonable size and fitness.

You and I both know this isn't likely to happen with a world-class athlete. When I hear people talking about how BMI is junk, I assume they are a fat person trying to justify why the medical community is wrong about how overweight they are. As if the average person should be compared to a world-class athlete in any metric. Anyways, there are folks within the medical and statistical communities who do understand the limitations of BMI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... That being said, there is a strong correlation between disease and those who are rank as either overweight or obese on the BMI scale: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bo....

I disagree with your explanation of the ideological reasons behind Trump's massive popularity. The opposite of "we have a problem with illegal immigrants" is not "all of those illegal immigrants are racists and we should build a wall to make them stay out". You can agree with the former without resorting to the viciousness of the latter.