{"id":57796,"date":"2026-05-05T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/57796\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:43:08","slug":"trump-appears-to-achieve-an-impressive-feat-dozing-off-while-standing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/57796\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appears to achieve an impressive feat \u2013 dozing off while standing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/politics\/trump\/trump-rudy-giuliani-health-hospital\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> may have just achieved an incredible feat, but unfortunately, it has nothing to do with conducting his role as US president.<\/p>\n<p>Despite giving his predecessor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a> the nickname \u201cSleepy Joe\u201d, it is with some irony that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/politics\/trump\/donald-trump-health-falling-asleep-2676610900\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump just can\u2019t seem to stay awake<\/a> himself. The president has been seen on several occasions apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/politics\/trump\/donald-trump-asleep-white-house#\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">falling asleep during meetings<\/a> and other major events while other people are speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Now, critics online have claimed that Trump has outdone even himself by appearing to doze off while standing up.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred as Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler spoke at a White House summit on Monday (4 May). In viral clips shared online, Trump could be seen standing to her right, apparently struggling to keep his eyes open.<\/p>\n<p>Some have suggested the feat is actually \u201cimpressive\u201d, if not extremely concerning, considering Trump holds one of the most powerful positions in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Aaron Rupar posted a clip alongside the caption, \u201cTrump\u2019s face is drooping and he\u2019s struggling to keep his eyes open while Kelly Loeffler speaks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t wanna hear another f***ing word about \u2018sleepy Joe\u2019. This clown is falling asleep while standing up,\u201d someone responded.<\/p>\n<p>Another person asked: \u201cIs it normal to fall asleep standing up during a press event? #askingforacountry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone else mocked: \u201cThis is impressive. I can&#8217;t sleep standing up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Trump critic wrote: \u201cTrump struggled to keep his eyes open during an event at the White House today. He\u2019s not fighting for you he\u2019s fighting off the REM cycle. His decline is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone commented: \u201cThe picture of health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a total disaster&#8230; the laughing stock of the world,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another person asked: \u201cTotally unfit. Why do the GOP do nothing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why not read\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/newsletters?itm_channel=native&amp;itm_campaign=footer&amp;itm_audience=prospecting&amp;itm_content=newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to our free indy100 weekly newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump may have just achieved an incredible feat, but unfortunately, it has nothing to do with conducting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34781,12,75,22006,74,987],"class_list":{"0":"post-57796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-trump-jr","8":"tag-asleep","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-donald-trump-jr","11":"tag-sleep","12":"tag-trump","13":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116521795885198514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}