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617Blue

(2,390 posts)
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:30 AM Dec 2025

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 Dec 2025 OP
And he has had a stroke too .... Maybe more than one. Botany Dec 2025 #1
He has a constant IV wound on his hand 617Blue Dec 2025 #3
Trump is very close to the pull date of his milk carton of a body. Botany Dec 2025 #5
Or a milk carton with his picture on it after he wanders away from Mar a Lago ChicagoTeamster Dec 2025 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author COL Mustard Dec 2025 #67
I doubt he's ever unsupervised long enough to be able to wander off on his own ChicagoTeamster Dec 2025 #70
We should only be so lucky! COL Mustard Dec 2025 #71
Good post and Prof. Toru Tanaka Dec 2025 #28
Yeah, AncientOfDays Dec 2025 #63
Exacty why they were doing a MRI on his head. Be a shame if he had more Bengus81 Dec 2025 #27
Look @ the right side of his mouth when he is sleeping and you can see the post stroke droop of his lips. Botany Dec 2025 #30
I noticed that too MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #54
He calls dereliction of duty, 'not being Woke.' nt Torchlight Dec 2025 #2
The fact that nothing is being done says everything. Boomerproud Dec 2025 #4
He's always been an anti-social, pathelogical brute, but now he's being used to sheild younger pathelogical brutes Attilatheblond Dec 2025 #6
The dude is a dud Grim Chieftain Dec 2025 #7
They thought maybe the E fell off the sign or maybe it was just a typo struggle4progress Dec 2025 #62
;-{) zzzzzzzzzz Goonch Dec 2025 #8
Only one person is responsible for Trump passing out during cabinet meetings. Botany Dec 2025 #10
Nope! This guy. Ray Bruns Dec 2025 #18
I can't see the picture. What is it? littlemissmartypants Dec 2025 #33
Obama eating french fries saying whopis01 Dec 2025 #36
TY ❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 2025 #38
President Obama eating MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #39
TY❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 2025 #48
Obama with the caption "I'm just waiting to see how this is my fault." Ray Bruns Dec 2025 #45
TY❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 2025 #49
Weekend at Donnie's enid602 Dec 2025 #32
Don't get people's hopes up 😜 MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #40
Lol. A colleague would fall asleep at meetings, we'd all carefully pretend not to notice BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2025 #42
We had one back in the day KentuckyWoman Dec 2025 #66
Maybe he shouldn't stay up all night rage tweeting surfered Dec 2025 #9
That is what my late husband was doing CountAllVotes Dec 2025 #11
Rubio was right next to him speaking loudly and was asleep - sound a frigging asleep. * 617Blue Dec 2025 #12
In the senior centers I move old people into I see these old people sleeping like this all the time kimbutgar Dec 2025 #14
Sleepy orange piggy ( SOP) is my new name for him. kimbutgar Dec 2025 #13
More sleep, less harm. Please continue. oasis Dec 2025 #15
Just wait ... CountAllVotes Dec 2025 #20
Every Day Mr.Bee Dec 2025 #16
Tells Reporters To... 2na fisherman Dec 2025 #26
They're all afraid of the MAGA organization that's really running things sending goons after them. ChicagoTeamster Dec 2025 #19
What is different now is that the media is REPORTING IT FakeNoose Dec 2025 #21
Yes, I've noticed that too. The sane washing is also less. But then again tRump's deterioration is very obvious. AnotherMother4Peace Dec 2025 #35
A stroke could explain the MRI Auggie Dec 2025 #22
A stroke does indeed explain his MRI. Martin68 Dec 2025 #24
Republican Congress-critters: Ho hum. Yawn. Martin68 Dec 2025 #23
I understand why he surrounds himself in gold colored paint, and ass-kissing spectacles Bluetus Dec 2025 #25
I've been a drifter-offer most of my adult life. maxsolomon Dec 2025 #29
GOP consists of cowards and criminals. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #31
He's normalizing Sleeping While Presidenting Prairie Gates Dec 2025 #34
Hello, auto pen! N/t shanti Dec 2025 #50
We have many reasons to be concerned, read what Irish_Dem had to say... Pluvious Dec 2025 #37
How long can an 80 year old live with dementia? CountAllVotes Dec 2025 #41
No patriots MaineBlueBear Dec 2025 #43
Imagine the coverage if Biden or Obama had ever dozed off like that.... TheRickles Dec 2025 #44
Like a scene from Local Hero thought crime Dec 2025 #46
Now, just imagine how he'd humiliate one of his staffers who did the same. Totally Tunsie Dec 2025 #47
The problem is not that he keeps falling asleep - Lokee11 Dec 2025 #51
Sleeping while getting blown is a talent Buzz cook Dec 2025 #52
ILL DUCE! Mme. Defarge Dec 2025 #53
A wake-up call malaise Dec 2025 #55
Unintentional humor on my part!* 617Blue Dec 2025 #56
Nicely played malaise Dec 2025 #57
Dopey Don LiberalLovinLug Dec 2025 #58
But But But LilElf70 Dec 2025 #59
he always tires quickly when the subject isn't HIM Skittles Dec 2025 #60
Early onset decrepitude. It started in his 40's. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2025 #61
There is a certain poetic symmetry to this OP DFW Dec 2025 #64
Well, he promised to bring us to the end of "woke". BluesRunTheGame Dec 2025 #69
Does he need to replace his shoes after every cabinet meeting? Old Crank Dec 2025 #65
Anyone else notice how much he looked down at notes Deminpenn Dec 2025 #68

617Blue

(2,390 posts)
3. He has a constant IV wound on his hand
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:41 AM
Dec 2025

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.

Response to ChicagoTeamster (Reply #17)

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,920 posts)
28. Good post and
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:14 PM
Dec 2025

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

AncientOfDays

(261 posts)
63. Yeah,
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 01:40 AM
Dec 2025

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

(77,156 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, 01:22 PM
Dec 2025

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

(16,001 posts)
54. I noticed that too
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 05:29 PM
Dec 2025

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


Torchlight

(6,746 posts)
2. He calls dereliction of duty, 'not being Woke.' nt
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:40 AM
Dec 2025

Poor little fella looks feeble and all tuckered out.

Boomerproud

(9,268 posts)
4. The fact that nothing is being done says everything.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:42 AM
Dec 2025

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

Attilatheblond

(8,765 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, 11:49 AM
Dec 2025

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

(126,015 posts)
62. They thought maybe the E fell off the sign or maybe it was just a typo
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 01:18 AM
Dec 2025

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

(77,156 posts)
10. Only one person is responsible for Trump passing out during cabinet meetings.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:24 PM
Dec 2025

Sleepy Joe Biden.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,001 posts)
42. Lol. A colleague would fall asleep at meetings, we'd all carefully pretend not to notice
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 02:10 PM
Dec 2025

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

KentuckyWoman

(7,397 posts)
66. We had one back in the day
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 03:43 AM
Dec 2025

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

(22,192 posts)
11. That is what my late husband was doing
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:26 PM
Dec 2025

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

(27,195 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, 12:36 PM
Dec 2025

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

CountAllVotes

(22,192 posts)
20. Just wait ...
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:48 PM
Dec 2025

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

(307 posts)
26. Tells Reporters To...
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:11 PM
Dec 2025

"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

(841 posts)
19. They're all afraid of the MAGA organization that's really running things sending goons after them.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:46 PM
Dec 2025

FakeNoose

(41,309 posts)
21. What is different now is that the media is REPORTING IT
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:48 PM
Dec 2025

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

(5,109 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, 01:50 PM
Dec 2025

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

(2,694 posts)
25. I understand why he surrounds himself in gold colored paint, and ass-kissing spectacles
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 12:58 PM
Dec 2025

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

(38,588 posts)
29. I've been a drifter-offer most of my adult life.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:20 PM
Dec 2025

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

(8,009 posts)
34. He's normalizing Sleeping While Presidenting
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:45 PM
Dec 2025

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

(22,192 posts)
41. How long can an 80 year old live with dementia?
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 02:08 PM
Dec 2025

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

(1,491 posts)
46. Like a scene from Local Hero
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 02:34 PM
Dec 2025

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

Totally Tunsie

(11,799 posts)
47. Now, just imagine how he'd humiliate one of his staffers who did the same.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 02:52 PM
Dec 2025

It would be brutal.

Fine for me, but not for thee.

Lokee11

(404 posts)
51. The problem is not that he keeps falling asleep -
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 04:53 PM
Dec 2025

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

✊FDT!

Buzz cook

(2,879 posts)
52. Sleeping while getting blown is a talent
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 05:26 PM
Dec 2025

Sleeping while getting multiple blow jobs is simply amazing.

LilElf70

(1,542 posts)
59. But But But
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 08:15 PM
Dec 2025

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

(171,334 posts)
60. he always tires quickly when the subject isn't HIM
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 09:26 PM
Dec 2025

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

DFW

(60,093 posts)
64. There is a certain poetic symmetry to this OP
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 01:41 AM
Dec 2025

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

Very fitting!

Old Crank

(6,938 posts)
65. Does he need to replace his shoes after every cabinet meeting?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 03:25 AM
Dec 2025

They must get soaked from all that boot kicking.

Deminpenn

(17,449 posts)
68. Anyone else notice how much he looked down at notes
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 05:31 AM
Dec 2025

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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