Whoever does it waits for it. After making fun of his predecessor Joe Biden for years by giving him the nickname “sleepy”, Donald Trump was caught during an unscheduled nap in the Oval Office. And, of course, Democrats and opponents went wild.
The video, which went viral on social media, shows the American president slumping in his chair during a press conference with the managers of the largest American pharmaceutical companies to announce the reduction in the prices of slimming drugs.
While the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mehmet Oz, is speaking The Donald closes his eyes for a few seconds and rests his head on the seat back. “Dozy Don is back!”, Trump’s bitter enemy, the governor of California Gavin Newsom, immediately wrote on X, calling the 79-year-old president “sleepy”.
MSNBC host and former Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki also mocked the tycoon for his nap. «He fell asleep just as his surgeon general was talking about dementia, obesity and insomnia. A bit ironic, isn’t it?”.
“This man is not well,” the democratic influencer Harry Sisson attacked on X. In recent weeks, after the mission to Asia, some members of the government have underlined how the president never sleeps. Attorney General Pam Bondi, for example, declared that “no one on the White House team can keep up with him.”
«I don’t know how he does it. None of us know when he sleeps. Always work.” And vice president JD Vance said that the tycoon “never goes away”.
Yet the video of Trump’s nap comes amid a wave of speculation about his health. Bruises on his hands, swollen ankles, a staggering gait and a few gaffes fueled the chatter. The American president underwent a medical examination in October, a few months after his last annual check-up, and underwent both an MRI and a cognitive test. The White House did not explain why but assured that it was a standard procedure and that the commander-in-chief is in excellent health.