President Donald Trump, 79, repeatedly dozed off during his own Cabinet meeting Tuesday, just hours after staying up past midnight to post 160 times on Truth Social about Michelle Obama conspiracy theories.
The president's eyes remained closed for approximately six minutes across multiple instances during the three-hour session, with Cabinet members forced to continue speaking to an apparently unconscious commander-in-chief. At one point, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick delivered an entire briefing on tariff policy while Trump sat motionless with his eyes shut, head slightly tilted, embodying the robust vitality he spent five years insisting only he could bring to the Oval Office.
This marks the third time in recent weeks Trump has been observed struggling to maintain consciousness during official duties, a development White House aides insist is "completely different" from when Joe Biden occasionally appeared tired. Trump's inability to stay awake, they explained, stems from his superhuman work ethic of posting hundreds of times nightly on social media, whereas Biden's fatigue came from being old and weak.
The irony was apparently lost on Trump, who built a significant portion of his 2020 campaign around the "Sleepy Joe" nickname, questioning whether Biden had the "strength and stamina" for the presidency. Trump repeatedly challenged Biden to cognitive tests and suggested his opponent lacked the "mental and physical" capacity to lead, arguments that have aged with the same grace as Trump's ability to remain conscious past 2 p.m.
Sources confirm Trump was back on Truth Social by 5:48 a.m. Tuesday morning, demonstrating that while he cannot stay awake during actual presidential responsibilities, he maintains Olympic-level endurance for social media rants. The president recently bragged about acing a cognitive test, though he initially forgot what body part was examined during his Walter Reed MRI scan.
