Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel on Tuesday cooked up a wild excuse for President Donald Trump’s apparent sleepy time at a recent Cabinet meeting.
Siegel — who has claimed to be “mesmerized” by Trump’s public speaking and has described him as “very cognitively advanced” over the years — joined Laura Ingraham’s program after she claimed the left went “crazy” over Trump closing his eyes for “a few seconds” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke.
Trump, who was caught napping at a White House event early last month, shut his eyelids on a number of other occasions during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.
“Thomas Edison believed in the 10-minute nap, by the way. What would they say? We wouldn’t have electricity, right?” said Siegel of Edison, who invented an early version of the incandescent light bulb (not electricity).
Moments earlier, Siegel claimed that the president appeared to be “extremely sharp” before declaring that the left’s interest in the president’s alleged doze-off was simply a “bait-and-switch” as critics aren’t happy with Trump’s Joe Biden “autopen” fixation.
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He continued to dismiss talk surrounding Trump’s recent MRI, one which fueled further questions about the president’s health and cognitive fitness.
“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,” Siegel argued. “Every single moment, going in and out of press conferences. I’ve never seen anything like it, actually.”
Ingraham continued to excuse Trump’s apparent sleepiness, claiming that everyone knows the president — who recently went on a massive, hourslong posting spree that nearly lasted until midnight before making another post at 5:48 a.m. — doesn’t sleep.
“I’m not a big sleeper either. So, you know, on occasion, I close my eyes if someone is talking for too long, I admit it. But big deal. I mean, the results speak for themselves,” she said. “What President Trump does on a daily basis. If you sleep three hours or four hours a night, you’re probably going to close your eyes, whether you are 79 or 49. I don’t think that matters.”
