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Trump Proves That He Is Unfit For Office By Sleeping During Cabinet Meeting

Donald Trump has been arguing that mystery MRIs are no big deal and that he is sharper than ever, but while he touts his sharpness, the president sleeps during cabinet meetings.

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Dec 02, 2025
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Do you remember how Joe Biden used to fall asleep in the middle of speeches and events? How about all of those times that Biden staged an event for the media, and then nodded off right in the middle of it in front of the entire world?

Of course, you don’t remember those things because they never happened. One of the great ironies is that Trump gave Biden the nickname Sleepy Joe, and yet it is Donald Trump who can’t stay awake.

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At the same cabinet meeting, Trump declared:

Right now, I think I’m sharper than I was 25 years ago. But who the hell knows I took, by the way, I took my physical, I got all A’s everything. But they said to me, would you like to take a cognitive test? I said, is it hard? They said Yes. I said, well, I’m a very smart person.

Who was the last president to take one? No president has ever agreed to take one because, uh, when you get into the mid questions, meaning, you know, 10, question number 10, 11, 12, 20, 8, 30, they get harder and harder. And they said, would you like to do it? I said, well, no reason to do it. Nobody’s ever done it.

Trump also did this as HUD Secretary Scott Turner was speaking:

Trump could have been trying to fight sleep, or he could have been snoozing, but what happened next left little room for doubt.

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