Trump Finally Admits He Was Asleep in All Those Cabinet Meetings
After months of denials, President Trump has finally admitted that he has been falling asleep during Cabinet meetings.
In an interview with New York magazine published Monday, Trump said that he closed his eyes during those meetings because they were “boring as hell.”
“I’m going around a room, and I’ve got 28 guys—the last one was three and a half hours. I have to sit back and listen, and I move my hand so that people will know I’m listening. I’m hearing every word, and I can’t wait to get out,” Trump said.
????WOW. Here’s a montage of Donald Trump struggling to stay awake during his entire meeting.
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So I guess Trump is lying about having peak stamina? pic.twitter.com/MJSUH2GMkd
It’s a stark admission in an article about Trump’s health that the president agreed to in an attempt to quash negative reports about his age and his visibly declining mental and physical fitness. The president previously claimed to be “resting” or “blinking” his eyes, despite having fallen asleep multiple times in full view of the press and public: in the middle of his own military parade, while meeting foreign leaders, and four different times in the month of December.
Much of the article is Trump telling doctors, staffers, and members of his Cabinet to brag to writer Ben Terris about how healthy and energetic he is. At one point during his interview, he turned to his physicians from Walter Reed hospital and asked, “Real fast. Is my health perfect?”
“Your health is excellent, sir,” said Colonel James Jones, a physician’s assistant with a Ph.D. in health science.
The president’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, said that Trump “can work harder and he has a better memory and he has more stamina and has more energy than a normal mortal. The headline of your story should be ‘The Superhuman President.’”
Sycophancy aside, it’s quite obvious that Trump’s health is declining, as the article points out, with bruising repeatedly showing up on his hands, his own admission that he takes a massive dose of aspirin each day, and the fact that he had trouble remembering the name of Alzheimer’s disease. But don’t worry, Trump doesn’t think about Alzheimer’s at all because, as he says, “I don’t have it.”