NCS medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner on Thursday spelled out the possibly worrying consequence of Donald Trump’s obvious behavior of nodding off throughout daytime public occasions.
Reiner, onetime heart specialist for late Vice President **** Cheney, informed “The Lead” anchor Jake Tapper that the president’s “daytime somnolence, his sleepiness” is “not really a mystery.”
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“He doesn’t sleep at night. He’s up posting on social media in the middle of the night,” Reiner identified. “But the net effect is that he’s sleepy during the day and this has a real concern.”
“The president is very sleepy during the day, does his staff have to curtail the length of briefings that he has?” Reiner requested. “It’s not just a vanity thing, the president falls asleep. Have they had to curtail his daily CIA briefings?”
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The White House has beforehand dismissed Trump’s obvious dozing as simply blinking.
Reiner’s feedback got here throughout a broader dialogue with Tapper on Trump’s well being after The Washington Post reported that the president was evaluated by 22 medical specialists as a part of his current bodily examination.
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Reiner stated on X that there have been nonetheless “lingering questions concerning the president’s recent medical exam.”
“One big question: Why were so many (22) consultants brought in to evaluate the president?” he added.