Overview
- Photos and video from Thursday’s Oval Office announcement on lowering prices for popular weight‑loss drugs showed President Trump with his eyes apparently closed at times, spreading widely online over the weekend.
- White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told CNN the president was not sleeping and said he spoke throughout the event and answered numerous press questions.
- The California governor’s press office shared the clips and mocked the president, using the moment to question his fitness for office.
- Aides point to a more than one‑hour economic speech in Miami the day before and a recent three‑country trip to Asia as evidence of an active schedule.
- No new medical information has been provided beyond last month’s statement that Trump underwent an MRI at Walter Reed and this summer’s diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency.