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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(138,733 posts)
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 03:08 PM Jun 5

White House Explodes Over Viral Video of Sleepy Donald Trump

A viral video of Donald Trump sitting with his eyes closed sent the White House's social media operation into full meltdown mode.

The administration's Rapid Response account lashed out on Thursday after videos circulated online appearing to show the 79-year-old president slumped sideways in his chair during an Oval Office event promoting what he called "Beautiful, Clean Coal."

One viral post, that at the time of writing has received more than 4 million views, claimed Trump was "completely passed out asleep" during the announcement and sarcastically wondered how long it would take before the White House insisted he had merely been "blinking."

The White House then took the bait.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/white-house-explodes-over-viral-040814154.html

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White House Explodes Over Viral Video of Sleepy Donald Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 5 OP
Boo-fucking-hoo! City Lights Jun 5 #1
I wish the "dead man walking"... Dave Id Jun 5 #15
Me too!! nt City Lights Jun 5 #16
Perhaps something needs to eliminate the walking part. paleotn Jun 5 #21
80 year old man in failing health struggles to stay conscious... RT Atlanta Jun 5 #2
Or a... homegirl Jun 5 #43
This message was self-deleted by its author buzzycrumbhunger Jun 5 #3
I dislike the hyperbolic language used NeoTrajan Jun 5 #4
Truly unfortunate... 2naSalit Jun 5 #12
Granted, but were they happy about it? No. paleotn Jun 5 #22
I agree.. just tell me he looks sicker and can't keep his eyes open.. mountain grammy Jun 5 #45
Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. ananda Jun 5 #5
I like Dopey Donnie. Has a nice ring to it. multigraincracker Jun 5 #28
Yeah. Dopey and Grumpy. ananda Jun 5 #30
Trump's idea of 'clean' coal Norrrm Jun 5 #6
Coal Kills Botany Jun 5 #41
"Clean Coal" is anything but. It's also what Shelley Berman would have called a "clirty". calimary Jun 6 #54
They still can't say he was asleep lame54 Jun 5 #7
Just like Jan 6..we didn't see what we just saw. Deuxcents Jun 5 #8
That's the actual WH rapid response account? underpants Jun 5 #9
Donnie employs the worst people. paleotn Jun 5 #24
"Donnie" IS the worst people. MLWR Jun 5 #36
Birds. Feathers. Yep. I get it. paleotn Jun 5 #37
😂😂😢😢 malaise Jun 5 #10
I wonder if they actually believe that. louis-t Jun 5 #19
What they believe is that they will NEVER get another job with so much $$ making potential Attilatheblond Jun 5 #35
Is that a real quote? MustLoveBeagles Jun 5 #23
Yes malaise Jun 5 #26
Wow 😳 MustLoveBeagles Jun 5 #27
Sounds like it came from The Manchurian Candidate DBoon Jun 5 #38
Rep. Ted Lieu takedown w/receipts IcyPeas Jun 5 #46
Fuck those lying assed MAGA shitstains and their bullshit excuses for their sleepy pedophile rapist Orange Bastard. SoFlaBro Jun 5 #11
What you said MustLoveBeagles Jun 5 #29
Cheers SoFlaBro Jun 6 #53
Cheers to you to MustLoveBeagles Jun 6 #55
It was a stupid screen shot to use. His eyes are open. Why not use one of the many times his eyes were closed? onenote Jun 5 #13
Some people actually doze with their eyes partly open. It is a known occurence with older adults. 58Sunliner Jun 5 #39
Sure. But if they had used one with his eyes closed there would be no need to make that point. onenote Jun 5 #49
Actually what I saw on Seth looked like his eyes were closed. 58Sunliner Jun 6 #52
It's not the falling asleep that bothers me purr-rat beauty Jun 5 #14
I predict: "He has dry eyes and closing them brings comfort." QueerDuck Jun 5 #17
Must be squinting, I had thought he has multigraincracker Jun 5 #31
Those people never learn BaronChocula Jun 5 #18
There is the problem, he uses the Oval unlike any other POTUS underpants Jun 5 #34
Exactly! BaronChocula Jun 5 #47
Interesting! Yeah, I think I saw photos of Obama in the Study Room. electric_blue68 Jun 5 #51
I look forward to the inevitable occurrence.... Escape Jun 5 #20
Lol. 58Sunliner Jun 5 #40
They think we're stupid. moreland01 Jun 5 #25
Cut the guy some slack. OAITW r.2.0 Jun 5 #32
Good! Grampy needs a nap; Sleepy (despite 12 Diet Cokes) McDonald Evolve Dammit Jun 5 #33
"A" video? I've been seeing videos of him sleeping for the past 6 months. C Moon Jun 5 #42
He may suffer from a condition called blepharospasm, but won't admit it... allegorical oracle Jun 5 #44
I think he's actually falling asleep, though. GenThePerservering Jun 5 #48
trump is NOT well LetMyPeopleVote Jun 5 #50

RT Atlanta

(2,867 posts)
2. 80 year old man in failing health struggles to stay conscious...
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 03:13 PM
Jun 5

and, related, is that he is no longer shown standing.

Always seated with his severely swollen legs (is he wearing a catheter too) hidden. Perhaps he needs leg braces at this point too.

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

NeoTrajan

(89 posts)
4. I dislike the hyperbolic language used
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 03:17 PM
Jun 5

'Explodes ..'
'Panicked...'
'Collapsing...'

None of that is true

None of it

2naSalit

(104,740 posts)
12. Truly unfortunate...
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 04:01 PM
Jun 5

The way grammatical rules and definitions are no longer observed in ways we once recognized.

Now it's all about what sells, catches the eye. Attention is the commodity.

mountain grammy

(29,389 posts)
45. I agree.. just tell me he looks sicker and can't keep his eyes open..
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:18 PM
Jun 5

and I'm there.. when he really does collapse, I'll be there for that too.. Happy days!

Norrrm

(6,060 posts)
6. Trump's idea of 'clean' coal
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 03:23 PM
Jun 5

Trump's idea of 'clean' coal

Trump appears to believe that clean coal - which, it must always be pointed out, doesn’t actually exist - is when workers mine coal and then physically “clean it.” That does not happen, but facts have never stopped Trump.

http://time.com/4912730/donald-trump-clean-coal-phoenix/

Botany

(78,204 posts)
41. Coal Kills
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:01 PM
Jun 5

Last edited Sat Jun 6, 2026, 04:17 PM - Edit history (1)

End of story. The miners, the land, the water, and the air around the mine, fish in
lakes, red spruce, and other vegetation from acid rain, the supportive capacity of
our atmosphere, people from the particals admitted by burning it, and ....

Clean Coal is not true.

calimary

(91,427 posts)
54. "Clean Coal" is anything but. It's also what Shelley Berman would have called a "clirty".
Sat Jun 6, 2026, 02:44 PM
Jun 6

My dad had a bathroom joke book of his, called “Shelley Berman’s Cleans and Dirties.” Something in the middle, neither fully clean nor dirty, Berman would call a “clirty” (as in “cleaned-up dirty”):

underpants

(197,781 posts)
9. That's the actual WH rapid response account?
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 03:33 PM
Jun 5

Last edited Fri Jun 5, 2026, 05:03 PM - Edit history (1)

They aren’t very rapid but they are plenty Stoopid

Everything I’ve seen from that account is just basically reposting what their influencers already have probably from the group chat they have.

malaise

(299,533 posts)
10. 😂😂😢😢
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 03:47 PM
Jun 5

President Trump is the sharpest, most accessible, and energetic president in American history," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle.

————

Attilatheblond

(9,475 posts)
35. What they believe is that they will NEVER get another job with so much $$ making potential
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 05:34 PM
Jun 5

So they will put a rod down 'Bernie's' back and walk him like a puppet if they have to so they can stay on the gravy train.

MustLoveBeagles

(18,281 posts)
27. Wow 😳
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 04:49 PM
Jun 5

Sounds like it came from The Onion. I can't tell the difference anymore without looking at the link.

DBoon

(25,263 posts)
38. Sounds like it came from The Manchurian Candidate
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 05:59 PM
Jun 5

‘Raymond Shaw Is the Kindest, Bravest, Warmest, Most Wonderful Human Being I’ve Ever Known in My Life’

IcyPeas

(25,975 posts)
46. Rep. Ted Lieu takedown w/receipts
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:41 PM
Jun 5

RUBIO: The video you just showed me now he was not falling asleep


LIEU: So you're lying again? You're lying to Congress, Secretary Rubio. Here's video from a French news channel mocking Trump for falling asleep at a Memorial Day ceremony.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-03T16:08:04.492Z

SoFlaBro

(3,828 posts)
11. Fuck those lying assed MAGA shitstains and their bullshit excuses for their sleepy pedophile rapist Orange Bastard.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 03:47 PM
Jun 5

onenote

(46,343 posts)
13. It was a stupid screen shot to use. His eyes are open. Why not use one of the many times his eyes were closed?
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 04:04 PM
Jun 5

58Sunliner

(6,459 posts)
39. Some people actually doze with their eyes partly open. It is a known occurence with older adults.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 05:59 PM
Jun 5

onenote

(46,343 posts)
49. Sure. But if they had used one with his eyes closed there would be no need to make that point.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 08:05 PM
Jun 5

58Sunliner

(6,459 posts)
52. Actually what I saw on Seth looked like his eyes were closed.
Sat Jun 6, 2026, 12:22 AM
Jun 6

It is important to understand that he may be dozing with eyes ajar because it is caused by his physical decline. It's a lack of muscular function of the eyelid. He is dozing more often than suspected. Unfit to be in office.

BaronChocula

(4,958 posts)
18. Those people never learn
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 04:28 PM
Jun 5

This has been going on for a while now. Lots-o times. And clearly no one can suggest keeping cameras out of meetings because Don Nods insists on looking important, which he doesn't when he's constantly passed out.

underpants

(197,781 posts)
34. There is the problem, he uses the Oval unlike any other POTUS
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 05:16 PM
Jun 5

Last edited Sat Jun 6, 2026, 08:49 AM - Edit history (1)

The Oval is normally (and effectively) used as a very special room. It’s used for very special ceremonies and high level meetings often with heads of state. It’s very intimidating from everything I’ve read and one person I know who’s been in it. He’d seen lots on several tours in Afghanistan but he said when he stepped in there he gulped on focused on his breathing.

There’s an actual off to the side that most POTUS’s use for a majority of their day.

Trump wants EVERYONE to see him being President.
Look at me!!! In my gaudy tacky s hole.
With the press stomping all over the carpet.

BaronChocula

(4,958 posts)
47. Exactly!
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:51 PM
Jun 5

I'm betting Don Nods doesn't even know the President's Study is even there. He probably just thinks it's a closet.

electric_blue68

(27,886 posts)
51. Interesting! Yeah, I think I saw photos of Obama in the Study Room.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 09:56 PM
Jun 5
ETA: Re Oval Office as a special room.

My friend's father was a ?Under Ambassador, then was later appointed as an Ambassador.

So we were walking around our city one day.....when she showed me the prints from photo session of his appointment as an Ambassador (with them/his family), in The Oval Office.

It was under Reagan. I hated Regean.
But, woah, it was impressive!

Escape

(543 posts)
20. I look forward to the inevitable occurrence....
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 04:37 PM
Jun 5

of him slumbering out cold, shitting his pants and sliding onto the floor face down.

That, by itself, will be comical enough, but the best part will be when Little Marco and all the other scared sheep in the room shit their pants and drop to the floor in a patriotic show of solidarity.

moreland01

(893 posts)
25. They think we're stupid.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 04:42 PM
Jun 5

We all have people in our lives his age or older. It's not unusual for them to take several cat naps during the day. But they're retired and aren't setting off wars and killing democracy.

He's showing all the signs of congestive heart failure as my mom and Aunt/Uncle showed at that age.

Wish he would just hurry up and die already.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,952 posts)
32. Cut the guy some slack.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 05:02 PM
Jun 5

It's not easy pulling all nighters to post stupid meme's and idiotic "truths" on his social media site. He's got to sleep sometime.

C Moon

(13,820 posts)
42. "A" video? I've been seeing videos of him sleeping for the past 6 months.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:10 PM
Jun 5

Some people are curious about the swelling under his right eye. And the other day he didn't seem to using his right arm.

allegorical oracle

(6,683 posts)
44. He may suffer from a condition called blepharospasm, but won't admit it...
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 06:17 PM
Jun 5
A friend's mother suffered from this, and lost control of how often or long her eyelids would stay open or closed. Videos of djt remind me of her.

Blepharospasm is a benign (noncancerous) condition of the nervous system that causes uncontrollable eyelid spasms. A person with this condition may lose the ability to control their eyelid muscles, leading to excessive or forceful blinking and/or periods of time when the eyes are clenched shut.

... Episodes may occur only occasionally at first, but the frequency of eyelid muscle spasms typically increases over time. If the problem is not diagnosed and properly treated, the condition may interfere with a person’s ability to live life normally, including to drive or work.

snip

Doctors aren’t sure what causes blepharospasm, although the condition may stem from abnormalities in an area of the brain that impacts muscle movement. In addition, exposure to bright light and certain medications may be triggers for the condition.

https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/blepharospasm

GenThePerservering

(4,072 posts)
48. I think he's actually falling asleep, though.
Fri Jun 5, 2026, 08:04 PM
Jun 5

no mention of increasing symptoms, just zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

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