Overview
- Footage from a Monday Cabinet roundtable shows President Trump with eyes closed and head tilted toward Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins before jerking awake.
- Moments later he interjected to correct a funding figure for farm relief, saying, "It's $12 billion," during discussion of the new aid package.
- Assistant Press Secretary Liz Huston issued a statement attacking The Daily Beast and denying that the president fell asleep.
- The incident renews scrutiny after weeks of similar clips and reports of the 79-year-old president appearing drowsy during official events.
- Analysts and conservative commentators offered differing interpretations, with Salon linking the pattern to national exhaustion and Tim Miller and Nicolle Wallace questioning the administration’s schedule management as public events decrease.