20 minutes. Is that a long time for a president to take a nap during a press conference?

[Miles Archer]

'Oh my god': WaPo analysis shows Trump 'was sleeping for 20 minutes during a live event'

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sleep-20-minutes-wh/

Trump caught heat for closing his eyes through a press conference, and a new Washington Post analysis reveals the president spent nearly 20 minutes sleeping or battling sleep during the event.

Trump appeared to doze off during a press conference on Thursday, drawing both mockery and shock from political analysts and other online observers. One night later, as he was trying to shake off the Oval Office scandal, he was seen "slumping" into his limo, according to video posted by Fox News and shared by the Daily Beast Saturday.

Now, the Washington Post has published an analysis of the Oval Office event, reviving the scandal with video evidence suggesting Trump was asleep for nearly 20 minutes on that occasion.

In a Saturday article called "A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office," the outlet argues that its "analysis of multiple video feeds found that the president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at a recent event."

[Irish_Dem]

1. Will he fall asleep during a national security emergency?

[Johonny]

4. We can only hope

He's the last person I want making a decision.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Good point.

When he wakes up from his nap, the experts will have taken care of the matter.

[StoolPigeon]

37. If they can't wake him up

Will they invoke the 25th amendment in time for Vance to make the wrong decision?

[3825-87867]

2. Maybe Doc "Ronnie" has prescribed something to keep him awake...

and it's now starting to go south.
Remember all the supposed drug prescriptions during tramp's first term?
Well, maybe that drug use is taking its toll and the attendees are having a hard time covering things.
Looks as though a sofa presiduncy is closer than we think!

[Bread and Circuses]

3. It's all perfectly OK, Stephen MILLER is the shadow president

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Let That Sink In!

A guy who was sugar daddied by radical rich dudes, who otherwise would be working the fryer at a fast food joint, is the shadow president.

[progressoid]

16. And Russell Vought

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. All tRump wants to do now is go to Mar A Lago and sleep.

He’s old, in poor health, and tired.

[yardwork]

40. I wish that was all he wanted.

He's old and in poor health but his narcissism is driving him.

Trump wants to rule the world and he believes that he can.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

45. I believe you are correct. His narcissism is driving him. nt

[Cha]

7. Did Bezos approve that? ".. closing his eyes.. "...

with the look on that ugly face It's Called SLEEP.

[Fil1957]

8. He wasn't sleeping, he was just resting his eyes...

[DBoon]

11. I would hope he was pining for the fjords

[Dave Bowman]

25. Lol!

[Pinback]

29. run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible (nt)

[yardwork]

41. Don't give him any ideas. He'll try to invade Norway next.

[not fooled]

9. So...where's the outrage in the media commensurate with the abuse heaped on Biden?

Not holding my breath...red don gets a pass on just about everything.

Except to thinking people with functioning memories.

[yardwork]

42. Jake Tapper will get right on it.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

10. My fervent hope...

… is that he fails to wake up in the middle of one of these things. Like NEVER WAKES UP AGAIN. Stiff as a board. Diaper overflowing with the ultimate relaxation.

Yeah, I’d prefer prison but at this point, I think we just need him dead so we can start undoing this nightmare.

[DBoon]

12. does this break Saint Ronnie's record?

Ronald Reagan may have had a tendency to nod off.

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of a national emergency – even if I’m in a cabinet meeting,” he joked. Word got out that he napped daily, and historian Michael Schaller wrote in 1994 that Reagan’s staff “released a false daily schedule that showed him working long hours,” labeling his afternoon nap “personal staff time.” But some family members denied that he napped in the White House.

https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-presidential-lethargy-111331

[SamuelTheThird]

13. If Biden had done this, it would have been blared by the news 24-7

[NBachers]

22. The Pukes would've hired speaker trucks to circle every block broadcasting at top volume. And Media would've joined in!

[John1956PA]

24. Biden did not do it, but he got blamed just the same.

Some smart-aleck MAGA edited a video of an attempted interview of a celebrity who was up in years. The celebrity did in fact doze off for a bit while waiting to be interviewd. The video was edited to take out the clip of the celebrity and to splice in a loop of a snip of Biden looking downward as he was seated. The effect of the concocted trashy video was to suggest that Biden had fallen asleep while being interviewed.

[vapor2]

27. Yup, Sleepy Joe per trump........karma

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Strokes leave people PROFOUNSLY tired, especially in the first year or so after.

Just sayin’

It takws a LOT of energy for that brain to heal, and they are almost always very sleepy for at least a year following a TBI/stroke. Brains are expensive, energy wise.

[reACTIONary]

17. Here is the Wa Po article, no paywall....

A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office
A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that the president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at a recent event.

https://wapo.st/4oTia5k

[ananda]

18. 5 seconds would be too long.

Sheesh

[lame54]

19. That's 3 pet goats

[Pinback]

32. Or 1/720th of a Scaramucci. (nt)

[Easterncedar]

20. Ozempic side effect?

[llmart]

21. Well, will wonders never cease!

Finally a media outlet actually mentions this with even videos from Fox News. Is an awakening by them of how feeble and OLD he is finally happening? If so, I would say too little, too late. Or maybe better late than never?

Either way, the media is partially responsible for our country finding ourselves in this position at this point in our history.

[Sneederbunk]

23. Does JD fall asleep on the couch after doing the couch?

[dem4decades]

34. I think i saw him light a cigarette.

[Captain Zero]

26. If you can't NEWS, Ya SNOOZE!

get it?
:snore:

[Grokenstein]

28. Tired from all that "dancing."

...You know, that ridiculous thing where the legs don't move but the arms go from pose to pose. And he thinks he's outdoing Justin Hammer.

[usonian]

30. Who remembers?

[tanyev]

31. Only if the president is someone other than Donald Trump.

😒

[Doodley]

33. Washington Post headline should be: COVER-UP OF TRUMP'S FAILING HEALTH EXPOSED

[DFW]

35. If it was supposed to be a 20 minute press conference

I’d say yeah, a 20 minute nap was pushing it.

[JoseBalow]

36. I don't mind him sleeping... It's the waking up I don't like

Hoping he takes a long, long nap.

[eppur_se_muova]

38. It's 20 minutes he's not poisonously bloviating. nt

[travelingthrulife]

39. Media acting like this is all new to them.

[bluesbassman]

43. Wait until the media discovers the Emperor has no clothes!

I’m sure it will come as quite a shock to most of them.

[Emile]

44. "Some people are saying" they heard him snoring.