ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – MAY 25: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks throughout a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on May 25, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. Memorial Day honors those that died whereas serving within the U.S. armed forces. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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A NCS medical analyst mentioned Tuesday that the White House has inquiries to reply in regards to the well being of President Trump–who turns 80 subsequent month–including a proof for why “the president appears to struggle to stay awake during the day.”
Dr. Jonathan Reiner informed NCS’s Kate Bolduan on News Central that there have been a collection of “visible health concerns” in current months that recommend the possibility of underlying health problems that haven’t been revealed by Trump or his administration. “He falls asleep very often,” Reiner mentioned. “He’s fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the cabinet room, and there was concern yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day observances.”
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 23: Director of the Center for Medicare Chris Klomp (C) speaks alongside U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals George Yancopoulos and U.S. President Donald Trump throughout an occasion on advancing well being care affordability within the Oval Office of the White House on April 23, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump, selling his administration’s efforts to decrease well being care prices and deal with rising premiums, introduced a take care of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to decrease sure drug costs offered on TrumpRx.gov in alternate for tariff reduction. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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‘Urgent meeting with the back of his eyelids’
The president’s health–and particularly, his obvious drowsiness in public–has grow to be an growing topic of debate on cable information, with MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace not too long ago describing Trump as having an “urgent meeting with the back of his eyelids” throughout an occasion on healthcare affordability within the Oval Office. Wallace famous that the president’s penchant for prolonged late-night bursts of social media posts may imply Trump is just not sleeping effectively.
“Between the hours of midnight and 2:45 a.m., Donald Trump posted on social media 18 times by our account, picking up again just after 7:30 a.m.,” Wallace informed viewers.
‘It’s an actual downside’ as Trump heads to bodily examination
Trump, famously extra snug speaking than listening, has in current Oval Office press availabilities closed his eyes for prolonged durations whereas others have been talking, with the White House forcefully denying the president had been asleep.
On NCS, Dr. Reiner famous that mixed with the obvious problem the president has had staying alert, there have been unsatisfactory explanations for the bruising on Trump’s arms and swelling of his ankles, each captured extensively in pictures, and defined away by the White House as the results of shaking arms and “venous insufficiency” within the case of the swelling.
“I’ll be interested to see what testing they do today, because if they repeat some of the scans that have been done in the last year or so, that tells u they are surveilling something and that’s never been disclosed to us,” Reiner mentioned.
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 10: U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House following a go to to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump traveled to Walter Reed to go to with troops and obtain a medical test up. (Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)
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Of the sleepiness, Reiner described it as “severe daytime somnolence,” additionally referred to as hypersomnia, which is an uncontrollable urge to nod off throughout hours when an individual would in any other case be anticipated to be refreshed and alert–like throughout work hours.
“I feel the same as I felt 50 years ago,” Trump mentioned earlier this month at a White House occasion. “I’m not a senior. I’m far younger than a senior.” His presidential doctor, Dr. Sean Barbabella, has described the president has being in “excellent overall health.”
Underlying well being concerns–and few explanations
“It’s a real problem,” Reiner mentioned. “And I’d like to hear what the White House has done to evaluate why the president has this increased daytime somnolence and what they’re doing to improve that.”
Trump was scheduled for a physical at Walter Reed National Military Center Tuesday, which NPR famous was his third examination in simply over a 12 months, elevating issues about his well being. The White House described Tuesday’s examination as a “routine dental and medical assessment,” although much less routine examinations–like a CT scan revealed in December–have not been totally defined.
As The New York Times has reported, “for more than a decade, Mr. Trump, his doctors and his aides have frequently issued terse, vague or rosy statements about the president’s fitness and health conditions.”
‘Threats to his life serve as reminders’
A separate NCS report Tuesday by Kevin Liptak mentioned that Trump’s “advanced age,” mixed with current makes an attempt on his life, “serve as reminders of his mortality,” a declare rapidly dismissed by the White House.
“You’re an idiot, @kevinliptakNews Central Site,” mentioned the White House Rapid Response account in a publish on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter. “The ‘threats to his life serve as reminders’ that Radical Left lunatics–incited by outlets like gutter trash NCS–keep trying to murder him. And @POTUS works harder in one day than you have in your entire life.”
In his piece, Liptak famous that Trump’s aides have been working to explain the president as energetic and very important. “His aides are quick to point out when he is working late,” Liptak mentioned, “as they did this weekend, when a communications aide announced the president was in the Oval Office at 9:30 p.m.”