The president has been falling asleep in public more and more frequently of late, and a doctor is sounding the alarm.
That doctor is Dr. Jonathan Reiner, the former cardiologist for former Vice President Dick Cheney, and a man frequently cited in the media for his views on the president’s health.
According to The Daily Beast, Reiner had something to say about the president falling asleep this week in the Oval Office, during a meeting about coal.
“While Zeldin was attacking former President Joe Biden’s administration for trying to regulate what is largely regarded as the dirtiest fossil fuel, Trump slumped diagonally in his seat, taking long, luxurious blinks and lolling his head around to look up periodically,” the Daily Beast reported. “When Burgum spoke, Trump dozed in a different position, hunched forward over his desk, hands in his lap, eyes firmly shut, even as the 69-year-old did a big boot-lick by thanking Trump for opening the door to more coal trade.”
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“A glaring omission from the president’s recent physical examination is any mention of his sleep disorder. This is not normal,” the doctor said on X, over video of Trump sleeping in that meeting.
A glaring omission from the president’s recent physical examination is any mention of his sleep disorder. This is not normal. https://t.co/87OJjoW2Ae
— Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD) June 4, 2026
The released information from Trump’s most recent physical does not mention anything about a sleep disorder.
“Following a visit to the Walter Reed Military Medical Center on May 26, Trump’s doctors released an extensive report containing various data points and summaries. Sleep was not mentioned, however,” The Daily Beast reported. “His sleeping patterns have become a cause for concern in themselves, with his late-night Truth Social rampages suggesting he may not have slept through the night on 83 percent of days in April.”
Reiner said in a TV appearance last month that he believes Trump suffers from “severe daytime somnolence.”
“He falls asleep very often. He’s fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the cabinet room, and there was concern yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day observances,” Reiner said in that TV appearance.
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