{"id":554824,"date":"2025-11-07T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554824\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:38:11","slug":"moment-donald-trump-slumps-over-asleep-on-live-tv-as-worries-mount-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554824\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Donald Trump ‘slumps over asleep’ on live TV as worries mount | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

A White House press conference turned chaotic yesterday as US president Donald Trump<\/a> appeared to \u201cfall asleep\u201d while on live TV \u2013 and another official collapsed on the ground beside him. Dr Mehmet Oz was laying out the plans for a reduction in the cost of weight loss drugs at the podium, while a sleepy-looking Trump appeared to be slumped in his chair behind the desk.<\/p>\n

Though Trump\u2019s eyes did appear to be slightly open, he was blinking slowly and rested his head against the back of the chair as officials stood gathered around him \u2013 and left viewers of C-SPAN wondering if he was still awake. One commented: \u201cWhen Joe [Biden] looks sleepy \u2013 fury. When Donald is knocked the f*** out on live TV \u2013 masterful gambit sir, pretending to sleep<\/a> in front of millions will really p*** off those liberals!\u201d<\/p>\n

Someone else joked: \u201cHe\u2019s sawing logs through the entire press conference.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe looks like he is out cold. Could you imagine what Fox<\/a> and the Republicans would say if Joe had a press conference and did this?\u201d another viewer echoed.<\/p>\n

The event had to be quickly halted when one of the guests collapsed behind Trump, appearing to faint and being caught by two other people as he fell to the floor. Dr Oz rushed to help the man and reporters were quickly ushered out of the room.<\/p>\n

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt explained that the man \u2013 who was representing Eli Lilly, one of the companies involved in the deal was \u201cokay\u201d, issuing a statement that said: \u201cThe White House Medical Unit quickly jumped into action, and the gentleman is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks later explained: \u201cIf you’ve ever been in the Oval Office, you stand a long time and it’s warm. I’m pleased to say that the White House medical staff did a great job, and he’s doing great, so nothing to be concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A White House press conference turned chaotic yesterday as US president Donald Trump appeared to \u201cfall asleep\u201d while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[177379,32,23427,714,12,28102,177382,1757,177381,133874,177380,13174,727,1018,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-554824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-c-span","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-fox-news","11":"tag-joe-biden","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-oval-office","14":"tag-sleepy-joe-biden","15":"tag-trump","16":"tag-trump-asleep","17":"tag-trump-health","18":"tag-trump-latest","19":"tag-trump-news","20":"tag-us-news","21":"tag-white-house","22":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115507751003835858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}