‘Sleepy’ Trump, 79, Struggles to Keep Awake as Dr. Oz Rambles On
President Donald Trump seemed as if he was on the verge of falling asleep as a key member of his administration helped him launch a brand new health-tracking system on the White Home.
In considerably bemusing scenes, the 79-year-old president’s eyes saved drooping as he tried to hearken to his personal Medicare administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, discuss up the initiative—and reward Trump’s management in making it occur.
“We’re going to have exceptional advances in how shoppers can use their very own information,” the previous discuss present host instructed Trump in a room filled with tech titans and business leaders.
Administrator for the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Providers Mehmet Oz speaks throughout an occasion on Well being Expertise within the East Room of the White Home as U.S. President Donald Trump listens. / Anna Moneymaker / Getty Photographs
“And all this comes again to 1 elementary difficulty, Mr. President, which is management,” Oz mentioned.
The occasion, which additionally featured Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and crypto czar David Sacks, happened the day after Trump returned to Washington from a whirlwind journey to Scotland.
Over the previous few days, the president has introduced a brand new commerce take care of the European Union, held conferences with U.Okay. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and opened a brand new Trump Worldwide Golf Course along with his sons Eric and Don Jr.
President Donald Trump along with his sons Don Jr. and Eric at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for his golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland on July 29, 2025. / Andrew Harnik / Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs
Trump has additionally confronted ongoing questions on Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted intercourse trafficker who’s now the middle of a political firestorm in Washington.
However this was not the primary time Trump struggled to remain awake—one thing the president and his MAGA followers often criticized “Sleepy Joe” Biden for doing.
Earlier this month, the president at occasions seemed on the verge of falling asleep at an vitality and AI summit in Pittsburgh.
He was additionally caught falling asleep a number of occasions throughout his “hush cash” trial in New York final yr, the place he was in the end convicted for falsifying enterprise information to cowl up a intercourse scandal with a porn star.
Regardless of his age, Trump and his supporters typically boast that he’s in glorious well being and nothing like Biden, whose final months in workplace had been marked by cognitive decline.