On Tuesday, following a night in which he stayed up late to send more than 100 Truth Social messages, President Donald Trump visibly fell asleep multiple times during a cabinet meeting, including at least once while a cabinet secretary was speaking to him directly. It was one of many surreal moments during the meeting, which also included Pete Hegseth laughing off possible war crimes and Kristi Noem thanking Trump for the lack of major hurricanes this year.
While falling asleep in a cabinet meeting is normally an embarrassing thing to do, a Fox News doctor this week reacted more positively.
Trump falls asleep again during a meeting on live television. If Joe Biden had done this, the media would’ve turned it into a week-long crisis. But with this clown, they shrug because he gives them the clicks that fatten their wallets. Total failures. https://t.co/f33xrg5e1e pic.twitter.com/thbH6GkZtO
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) December 2, 2025
Per The Daily Beast, Dr. Marc Siegel, the Senior Medical Analyst for Fox News, went on the network on Tuesday.
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“Thomas Edison believed in the 10-minute nap, by the way. We wouldn’t have electricity, right?,” Siegel said of the president.
As pointed out by the Beast, Thomas Edison did not invent electricity, but rather the light bulb.
Siegel also felt the need to change the subject to Joe Biden.
The left ignored Biden’s decline for years — now they’re panicking over Trump closing his eyes for seconds:
“@POTUS looks SHARP. This outrage is a DISTRACTION.
Biden was disoriented for years — stumbling, confused, showing COGNITIVE PROBLEMS. Trump releases full MRIs; Biden… pic.twitter.com/z8JC1C0GTQ
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 3, 2025
“This is a disgrace because we don’t need to see President Trump passing cognitive tests, as you just said he passes one every single day,” the doctor said on Fox. “Every single moment, going in and out of press conferences. I have never seen anything like it, actually,”
The host, Laura Ingraham, agreed that Trump falling asleep in a meeting was no big deal.
“Ingraham thinks that the leader of the free world nodding off during meetings is much ado about nothing,” the Beast said. “She claimed that Trump had his eyes closed for just a few seconds, despite a Washington Post analysis revealing that the actual amount of time was nearly six minutes, across nine separate instances.”
