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617Blue

(2,178 posts)
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 10:30 AM Yesterday

He fell asleep in a room full of his cabinet and reporters - WTF?

I know I'm not breaking any new ground here but if yesterday's presser wasn't a wake up call anyone in government (or legacy media) who cares about the future of the USA, I don't know what is. The sicker he gets the more wreckless and destructive he will get. Are there any GOP patriots?

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He fell asleep in a room full of his cabinet and reporters - WTF? (Original Post) 617Blue Yesterday OP
And he has had a stroke too .... Maybe more than one. Botany Yesterday #1
He has a constant IV wound on his hand 617Blue Yesterday #3
Trump is very close to the pull date of his milk carton of a body. Botany Yesterday #5
Or a milk carton with his picture on it after he wanders away from Mar a Lago ChicagoTeamster Yesterday #17
Would they really want COL Mustard 9 hrs ago #67
I doubt he's ever unsupervised long enough to be able to wander off on his own ChicagoTeamster 3 hrs ago #70
Good post and Prof. Toru Tanaka Yesterday #28
Yeah, AncientOfDays 11 hrs ago #63
Exacty why they were doing a MRI on his head. Be a shame if he had more Bengus81 Yesterday #27
Look @ the right side of his mouth when he is sleeping and you can see the post stroke droop of his lips. Botany 23 hrs ago #30
I noticed that too MustLoveBeagles 19 hrs ago #54
He calls dereliction of duty, 'not being Woke.' nt Torchlight Yesterday #2
The fact that nothing is being done says everything. Boomerproud Yesterday #4
He's always been an anti-social, pathelogical brute, but now he's being used to sheild younger pathelogical brutes Attilatheblond Yesterday #6
The dude is a dud Grim Chieftain Yesterday #7
They thought maybe the E fell off the sign or maybe it was just a typo struggle4progress 12 hrs ago #62
;-{) zzzzzzzzzz Goonch Yesterday #8
Only one person is responsible for Trump passing out during cabinet meetings. Botany Yesterday #10
Nope! This guy. Ray Bruns Yesterday #18
I can't see the picture. What is it? littlemissmartypants 23 hrs ago #33
Obama eating french fries saying whopis01 23 hrs ago #36
TY ❤️ littlemissmartypants 23 hrs ago #38
President Obama eating MustLoveBeagles 23 hrs ago #39
TY❤️ littlemissmartypants 22 hrs ago #48
Obama with the caption "I'm just waiting to see how this is my fault." Ray Bruns 22 hrs ago #45
TY❤️ littlemissmartypants 22 hrs ago #49
Weekend at Donnie's enid602 23 hrs ago #32
Don't get people's hopes up 😜 MustLoveBeagles 23 hrs ago #40
Lol. A colleague would fall asleep at meetings, we'd all carefully pretend not to notice BlueWaveNeverEnd 23 hrs ago #42
We had one back in the day KentuckyWoman 9 hrs ago #66
Maybe he shouldn't stay up all night rage tweeting surfered Yesterday #9
That is what my late husband was doing CountAllVotes Yesterday #11
Rubio was right next to him speaking loudly and was asleep - sound a frigging asleep. * 617Blue Yesterday #12
In the senior centers I move old people into I see these old people sleeping like this all the time kimbutgar Yesterday #14
Sleepy orange piggy ( SOP) is my new name for him. kimbutgar Yesterday #13
More sleep, less harm. Please continue. oasis Yesterday #15
Just wait ... CountAllVotes Yesterday #20
Every Day Mr.Bee Yesterday #16
Tells Reporters To... 2na fisherman Yesterday #26
They're all afraid of the MAGA organization that's really running things sending goons after them. ChicagoTeamster Yesterday #19
What is different now is that the media is REPORTING IT FakeNoose Yesterday #21
Yes, I've noticed that too. The sane washing is also less. But then again tRump's deterioration is very obvious. AnotherMother4Peace 23 hrs ago #35
A stroke could explain the MRI Auggie Yesterday #22
A stroke does indeed explain his MRI. Martin68 Yesterday #24
Republican Congress-critters: Ho hum. Yawn. Martin68 Yesterday #23
I understand why he surrounds himself in gold colored paint, and ass-kissing spectacles Bluetus Yesterday #25
I've been a drifter-offer most of my adult life. maxsolomon 23 hrs ago #29
GOP consists of cowards and criminals. Irish_Dem 23 hrs ago #31
He's normalizing Sleeping While Presidenting Prairie Gates 23 hrs ago #34
Hello, auto pen! N/t shanti 20 hrs ago #50
We have many reasons to be concerned, read what Irish_Dem had to say... Pluvious 23 hrs ago #37
How long can an 80 year old live with dementia? CountAllVotes 23 hrs ago #41
No patriots MaineBlueBear 23 hrs ago #43
Imagine the coverage if Biden or Obama had ever dozed off like that.... TheRickles 22 hrs ago #44
Like a scene from Local Hero thought crime 22 hrs ago #46
Now, just imagine how he'd humiliate one of his staffers who did the same. Totally Tunsie 22 hrs ago #47
The problem is not that he keeps falling asleep - Lokee11 20 hrs ago #51
Sleeping while getting blown is a talent Buzz cook 19 hrs ago #52
ILL DUCE! Mme. Defarge 19 hrs ago #53
A wake-up call malaise 19 hrs ago #55
Unintentional humor on my part!* 617Blue 19 hrs ago #56
Nicely played malaise 18 hrs ago #57
Dopey Don LiberalLovinLug 18 hrs ago #58
But But But LilElf70 17 hrs ago #59
he always tires quickly when the subject isn't HIM Skittles 15 hrs ago #60
Early onset decrepitude. It started in his 40's. nt Xipe Totec 13 hrs ago #61
There is a certain poetic symmetry to this OP DFW 11 hrs ago #64
Well, he promised to bring us to the end of "woke". BluesRunTheGame 7 hrs ago #69
Does he need to replace his shoes after every cabinet meeting? Old Crank 9 hrs ago #65
Anyone else notice how much he looked down at notes Deminpenn 7 hrs ago #68

617Blue

(2,178 posts)
3. He has a constant IV wound on his hand
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 10:41 AM
Yesterday

He could live for another 10 years just deteriorating and no GOPer will say a f ing thing about it. I ain't waiting for Tapper to get his panties in a bunch either.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,886 posts)
28. Good post and
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:14 PM
Yesterday

I’ll give you a two-point conversion for the definition of DOGE. TSF is as sour and foul as spoiled milk.

AncientOfDays

(250 posts)
63. Yeah,
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:40 AM
11 hrs ago

he;s getting some kind of treatment that requires injections, Maybe the drugs are putting him to sleep?

If that bandage was from the MRI, it should have healed long ago, I had big bruise after cataract surgery, but in less than 2 weeks it's almost completely gone - it us unnoticeable.

Botany

(76,057 posts)
30. Look @ the right side of his mouth when he is sleeping and you can see the post stroke droop of his lips.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:22 PM
23 hrs ago

Leavitt tried to distract from the MRI by talking about his heart but not about his head. And yes
you are exactly right because they didn’t give him an MRI @ a cognitive assessment test for no
reason but in the meantime he is letting Miller, Bannon, Kushner, Gorka, Loomer, Musk, and Putin
run the show as they placate Donny by letting him ruin the White House.

MustLoveBeagles

(14,172 posts)
54. I noticed that too
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 04:29 PM
19 hrs ago

My husband had 2 minor strokes 2 years ago and his mouth still occasionally droops on the left side.


Torchlight

(6,204 posts)
2. He calls dereliction of duty, 'not being Woke.' nt
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 10:40 AM
Yesterday

Poor little fella looks feeble and all tuckered out.

Boomerproud

(9,080 posts)
4. The fact that nothing is being done says everything.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 10:42 AM
Yesterday

I'm done. I don't want to hear about the 250th "celebration".

Attilatheblond

(7,969 posts)
6. He's always been an anti-social, pathelogical brute, but now he's being used to sheild younger pathelogical brutes
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 10:49 AM
Yesterday

Been thinking a lot about that episode of Star Trek, the one with the Nazis and drugged 'leader'. I won't let Trump off the hook; he has spent a lifetime abusing others for profit, but now he has become the worn out tool of others like him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Force]

"Patterns of Force" is the twenty-first episode of the second season of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek. Written by John Meredyth Lucas and directed by Vincent McEveety, it was first broadcast on NBC on February 16, 1968.

In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise tracks down a Federation observer on a planet dominated by a "Naziesque" regime.


More on the episode at link

struggle4progress

(125,261 posts)
62. They thought maybe the E fell off the sign or maybe it was just a typo
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:18 AM
12 hrs ago

So they booked their vacation at Donald's Dud Ranch

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

But it was stupid. And it was spooky. And --- nobody could figure out how to leave.

Coming soon to an abandoned drive-in near you!

Botany

(76,057 posts)
10. Only one person is responsible for Trump passing out during cabinet meetings.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:24 AM
Yesterday

Sleepy Joe Biden.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,366 posts)
42. Lol. A colleague would fall asleep at meetings, we'd all carefully pretend not to notice
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:10 PM
23 hrs ago

Eventually she'd start to snore and someone would have to subtly wake her up. It was cringe.

KentuckyWoman

(7,365 posts)
66. We had one back in the day
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 02:43 AM
9 hrs ago

Even the managers he thought just loved him were just keeping him close out of self defense. He was disliked worse than Ted Cruz.

He partied hard all weekend and slept through most Mondays. Someone finally had enough of him and started setting him up so the VP types caught him snoring. Took about a month and he was gone.

Hate for anyone to lose a job but getting rid of that toxic mess made such a good impact.

CountAllVotes

(22,044 posts)
11. That is what my late husband was doing
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:26 AM
Yesterday

The last few years he was around he was falling asleep all of the time.

We went to see David Crosby and he was out cold during the concert!

I knew something was very wrong but his "doctors" never paid much attention to it.

After his vein surgeries, he was a goner. Dead about a year or so later. They made a bundle off of him and at the end, I paid the entire bill for his "end of life" care.

Falling asleep and nodding off all of the time is part of DEMENTIA. In my late husband's case, it was VASCULAR DEMENTIA!

Sounds rather familiar doesn't it?

& recommend!!

kimbutgar

(26,567 posts)
14. In the senior centers I move old people into I see these old people sleeping like this all the time
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:36 AM
Yesterday

And a few have died since the last time I was there.

CountAllVotes

(22,044 posts)
20. Just wait ...
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:48 AM
Yesterday

Soon he'll be smearing, one of the things that people w/dementia do.

Who will clean the shit off of the walls and desk and the new big ugly ballroom?

The tax payers will pay pay pay.

Dump is a SICK man, sick!



2na fisherman

(194 posts)
26. Tells Reporters To...
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:11 PM
Yesterday

"Shut up...shut up!" She appears to be just as mean as Trump. Shouting down people is their MAGA way of representing their constituents. Why debate issues like a Rhodes Scholar when you can just yell at those who take issue with your bad policies.

ChicagoTeamster

(295 posts)
19. They're all afraid of the MAGA organization that's really running things sending goons after them.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:46 AM
Yesterday

FakeNoose

(39,750 posts)
21. What is different now is that the media is REPORTING IT
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:48 AM
Yesterday

We're being shown photos and told by the reporters that Chump falls asleep constantly.
They've known it but they weren't telling us before, now they are.

AnotherMother4Peace

(5,003 posts)
35. Yes, I've noticed that too. The sane washing is also less. But then again tRump's deterioration is very obvious.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:50 PM
23 hrs ago

It also seems that "knives are out" from senior military (active and retired) for Kegsbreath and tRump. They have lost respect and support from a lot of people who are in a position to leak the truth.

Bluetus

(2,058 posts)
25. I understand why he surrounds himself in gold colored paint, and ass-kissing spectacles
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:58 AM
Yesterday

It is the definition of malignant narcissism. That's who he is and always has been He doesn't own most of the buildings with his name on them. And the ones he does own are underwater. We know all this.

What makes no sense is scheduling these marathon ass-kissing sessions before cameras, knowing full well that he can't stay awake for 15 minutes. This shows that Trump has no operative executive function left in his brain. And he has nobody in his inner circle who gives a shit about protecting his image. On the contrary, everybody around him is there for their own personal reasons and will be just as happy as the rest of us when he is carted out of the WH in either a straight jacket or a coffin.

The time is approaching, and we can expect to see the long knives come out as the Vance people try to get the edge over the MIller people and the Rubio people and the Heritage people.

maxsolomon

(37,979 posts)
29. I've been a drifter-offer most of my adult life.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:20 PM
23 hrs ago

In college, I used to sit next to windows and open them a crack during winter quarter so I wouldn't fall asleep in 8:30 classes. The rooms were all steam heated.

Nowadays, after lunch, I can carb crash in Zoom meetings and get the nods.

I regularly drift off watching TV at night.

I guess what I'm trying to say is Fuck Trump, I loathe him. He's the 2nd worst person in the world (Putin is #1) and I wish he'd died 20 years ago.

Prairie Gates

(6,959 posts)
34. He's normalizing Sleeping While Presidenting
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:45 PM
23 hrs ago

By this time next year, he'll be full on snoring during bill signings and Jake Tapper will chide anyone who questions it: isn't that just Trump being Trump? Isn't this already baked into the electorate?

We live in hell.

CountAllVotes

(22,044 posts)
41. How long can an 80 year old live with dementia?
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:08 PM
23 hrs ago

How long can an 80 year old live with dementia?
AI Overview
An 80-year-old with dementia has an average life expectancy of about 3 to 4 years after diagnosis, but this varies significantly based on individual factors. For example, a dementia diagnosis at this age reduces life expectancy by about three to four years, compared to a diagnosis at age 65 which reduces it by about 13 years. Other types of dementia, like vascular dementia, may have a shorter life expectancy (around 5 years), while Alzheimer's may have a longer one (8-10 years).

*********

My late husband had symptoms for years. He was dx'd in February and gone in May.

Good luck dumpy, you and America need it!




thought crime

(1,068 posts)
46. Like a scene from Local Hero
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:34 PM
22 hrs ago

CEO Burt Lancaster falls asleep and managers continue the meeting in whisper mode.

Totally Tunsie

(11,478 posts)
47. Now, just imagine how he'd humiliate one of his staffers who did the same.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:52 PM
22 hrs ago

It would be brutal.

Fine for me, but not for thee.

Lokee11

(391 posts)
51. The problem is not that he keeps falling asleep -
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 03:53 PM
20 hrs ago

The problem is that he keeps waking up!!!!

✊FDT!

Buzz cook

(2,824 posts)
52. Sleeping while getting blown is a talent
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 04:26 PM
19 hrs ago

Sleeping while getting multiple blow jobs is simply amazing.

LilElf70

(1,266 posts)
59. But But But
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 07:15 PM
17 hrs ago

I read somewhere that Leavitt said he can see with his eyes shut? WTF... How toopid does one have to be to say this to everyone?

Skittles

(168,873 posts)
60. he always tires quickly when the subject isn't HIM
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 08:26 PM
15 hrs ago

he doesn't care what others have to say unless it is praise for HIM

DFW

(59,544 posts)
64. There is a certain poetic symmetry to this OP
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:41 AM
11 hrs ago

Calling a discussion about Trump falling asleep with greater frequency and intensity a “wake-up call.”

Very fitting!

Old Crank

(6,517 posts)
65. Does he need to replace his shoes after every cabinet meeting?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 02:25 AM
9 hrs ago

They must get soaked from all that boot kicking.

Deminpenn

(17,210 posts)
68. Anyone else notice how much he looked down at notes
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:31 AM
7 hrs ago

when he was answering questions? It's like his staff had prepared talking points from his own statements on various topics.
It's the same thing when he's sitting at his desk in the Oval Office making an announcement or taking questions. This is different from his first term or even his campaign before the 2024 election when he'd just riff bs off the top of head.

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