Hey, we all tend to doze off while listening to the asinine jabberings of a daytime talk show host like Dr. Mehmet Oz.
But when you make that daytime talk show host the U.S. Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and he’s speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, falling asleep isn’t the best look.
And Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) highlighted exactly that in his latest troll post aimed at President Donald Trump.
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On Thursday, Trump was seen with his eyes shut at several points during his administration’s announcement about lowered prices for certain weight loss drugs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients. In a moment, caught by CSPAN, Trump can be seen struggling to fight off the Sandman while listening to Oz spout off fatphobic rhetoric 25 minutes into the White House event.
But, just in case one needs more proof of how sleepy Trump was, here he is fully snoozing in a photo caught by Getty photojournalist Andrew Harnik.
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Andrew Harnik via Getty Images
And another one where Trump was trying his darndest to stave off the sleepies.
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In response to Trump’s naptime antics at the event, Newsom’s press office decided to revive a nickname he had used for the president in the past.
“DOZY DON IS BACK!” the account wrote, alongside a photo from Harnik and a snippet of CSPAN’s footage.
Newsom has used the moniker — which is presumably a play on Trump’s nickname “Sleepy Joe” for former President Joe Biden — in the past, notably when Trump struggled to keep his eyes open during a White House roundtable on antifa last month. Yet, social media users widely used the nickname “Sleepy Don” when Dr. Oz seemed to put Trump into a catatonic state during a “Making Health Technology Great Again” event at the White House in July.
And to nail down how out of it Trump appeared at the White House Thursday, not long after he knocked off during Dr. Oz’s speech, he reacted like this when a guest at the meeting fainted. (It should be noted that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the man was OK, and he was a representative of one of the health care companies in attendance.)
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Or you can watch the whole incident unfold in the video below:
