At 10:15 p.m. on Monday night, while most of the country was winding down for bed, the 79-year-old President of the United States was just getting warmed up.<\/p>\n
Post after post, repost after repost, Donald Trump lit up his Truth Social feed like a man with nowhere to be in the morning and nothing to lose by morning. By 1:13 a.m., he had published more than 55 posts in just under three hours, averaging one every three minutes.<\/p>\n
The topics ranged from a seven-year-old conspiracy theory about Barack Obama plotting a coup, to demands that Senator Mark Kelly resign, to a random video clip of someone knocking over a waiter\u2019s tray at a Florida restaurant.<\/p>\n
And yes, he also found time to advocate for his face to be carved onto Mount Rushmore. The internet, predictably, lost its mind.<\/p>\n
From the Oval Office to the Phone Screen at Midnight<\/p>\n
Liberal political commentator Harry Sisson<\/a>, who has over 388,000 followers on X, was among the first to catalog the overnight chaos.<\/p>\n \u201cTrump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours,\u201d Sisson wrote, going on to list the posts by timestamp and topic. The thread went viral almost immediately, racking up tens of thousands of engagements before sunrise.<\/p>\n But what made this particular spree stand out was not just the sheer volume. It was the content. Trump went after Obama three separate times in a single minute, at 10:15 p.m. alone, accusing him of attempting a coup in 2016, claiming he worked with the CIA to overthrow Trump, and reposting a tweet calling Obama a \u201ctraitor\u201d<\/a> who should be arrested.<\/p>\n By 10:22 p.m., he had shifted to the 2020 election, renewing his attacks on Dominion Voting Systems<\/a>, despite the company\u2019s landmark legal win against Fox News in 2023, which ended in a massive payout and the firing of Tucker Carlson<\/a>. By 10:29 p.m., he was posting Fox News clips and going after Fulton County, Georgia,<\/a> again.<\/p>\n Former MSNBC journalist and current Zeteo editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan<\/a> captured what many journalists were quietly thinking when he wrote on X, \u201cHow do you cover this?\u201d<\/p>\n The Numbers Don\u2019t Lie, and They Are Wild<\/p>\n The scale of Trump\u2019s Truth Social activity in 2025 and 2026 has ballooned to levels that genuinely stun analysts who track it. According to data compiled by Roll Call<\/a>, Trump has posted over 7,000 times on Truth Social in the past year and over 700 times in the last month alone.<\/p>\n A Daily Beast analysis<\/a> found that in April alone, he made 565 posts, roughly 18 a day, compared to just 250 posts across the entire month of April 2018 during his first term. A full third of that output now comes during nighttime hours.<\/p>\n In December 2025, Trump posted 158 times <\/a>between midnight and 3 a.m., according to Axios. Between January 2025 and January 2026, he posted over 300 times at midnight and over 100 times at 1 a.m. His own press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed this at a Turning Point USA event.<\/p>\n Asked what keeps her \u201cup at night,\u201d Leavitt laughed and said it was Trump\u2019s \u201ccrazy\u201d nocturnal nature.<\/a> \u201cThe fact that my boss is up all night and probably going to call at any hour,\u201d she said, adding that the president sleeps \u201cvery little.\u201d<\/p>\n According to reports<\/a>, Trump himself said that he goes to bed between midnight and 1 a.m. and wakes up around 6 a.m. That is, at best, five hours.<\/p>\n But Here\u2019s Where It Gets Uncomfortable<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the part that does not add up when you lay it all side by side. While Trump is apparently wide awake and furiously posting between midnight and 2 a.m., he is being repeatedly caught on camera fighting to stay conscious during official White House events in the middle of the day.<\/p>\n On May 11, during an Oval Office event focused on maternal health, cameras captured Trump\u2019s eyes sliding shut<\/a> and his face going slack as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke.<\/p>\n Reports described him as \u201cjerking awake\u201d after RFK Jr. finished. White House rapid response posted on X in response: \u201cHe was blinking, you absolute moron.\u201d Most people who watched the footage were not buying it.<\/p>\n It was not the first time, not even close. The week before that, cameras caught Trump slipping into a \u201cheavy-eyed daze\u201d during a signing ceremony for the Presidential Fitness Test. In March, he appeared to doze for at least 30 seconds while House Speaker Mike Johnson was mid-sentence.<\/p>\n In late 2025, he was caught nodding off during a Cabinet meeting and a press conference about prescription drug costs. In April 2025, he appeared to fall asleep at the funeral for Pope Francis. The hashtag \u201cDozy Don\u201d<\/a> has trended multiple times this year.<\/p>\n What Medical Experts Are Actually Saying<\/p>\n Cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as White House physician under President George W. Bush and is now CNN\u2019s medical analyst, has weighed in carefully but clearly. \u201cWhen a patient tells me that they can\u2019t stay awake in meetings, we do formal sleep testing to look for sleep apnea<\/a>,\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure the White House medical team has done this, but the president continues to struggle with daytime somnolence. This is a common problem, and there are things that can be done to improve these symptoms.\u201d He also wrote on X on May 11, \u201cThe president is overdue for his annual physical exam.\u201d<\/p>\n