Donald Trump’s administration let loose a flurry of social media posts concentrating on NCS and its anchors after the group’s story in regards to the president’s sleeping habits.
For those that missed it, NCS News Central ran a section the place Dr. Jonathan Reiner ran down the varied occasions Trump has been caught falling asleep in the course of the day, usually being pictured or videoed doing so. Reiner defined to host Kate Bolduan that he was involved in regards to the truth the president is falling asleep through the day as a result of he’s affected by insomnia by way of the nights.
“The president has severe daytime somnolence. He falls asleep very often. 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,” the physician stated. “And chronic insomnia is a severe illness. It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, a decrease in cognitive effects in older people.”
He continued: “It’s equivalent to about increasing your age by about 3 1/2 years. It increases your cardiac risk of having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure. And it — and it can produce a decline in your sort of mental functions. Like it could increase depression, anxiety.”
As Reiner went on, he emphasised that it’s “a real problem,” including, “The president appears to struggle to stay awake during the day. 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.”
The report led to Rapid Response 47 – which is an official White House account on X – firing off a slew of posts attacking a number of NCS hosts. Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, Bolduan, Brianna Keilar, Josh Dawsey, Kevin Liptak and extra all acquired a screenshot of them showing asleep with a wide range of cheeky captions to go together with it.
“Wow! Kate Bolduan just fell asleep AGAIN as Fake News NCS was baselessly speculating about President Trump’s health,” the account wrote. “Really makes you wonder what these clowns are hiding about their own health.”
“FLASHBACK: FAKE TAPPER APPEARS TO DOZE OFF THROUGHOUT HIS ‘SHOW,’” the account added in one other publish.
“Is ‘Dr. Jeremy Faust’ sundowning?” they wrote in a 3rd publish. You can see further examples under.
All these posts occurred in a lower than 30-minute interval on Tuesday morning. The newest backlash got here proper as Trump took his newest journey to Walter Reed Medical Center, which stirred up extra concern in regards to the president’s well being as he’s a little bit over two weeks away from his eightieth birthday.
