The White House on Tuesday fired off a flurry of posts on X in response to NCS’s reporting on President Donald Trump’s well being and protection of his behavior of seemingly nodding off in public.
Using its Rapid Response account, the White House shared a sequence of screenshots of NCS personalities and company with their eyes closed — usually mid-blink or with their heads bowed — in an obvious try and make it look as if they have been asleep.
The posts appeared to counsel that anybody will be made to look asleep in a nonetheless picture. The White House has repeatedly sought to make use of that spin to push again on the “sleepy Trump” narrative.
Those featured within the posts included NCS’s Kate Bolduan, Kevin Liptak, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper and Brianna Keilar, The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey and Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Jeremy Faust.
Bash responded to one of many posts with a quick quip: “If only ! Thanks for watching.”
The posts got here on the identical day that Trump underwent a scheduled bodily, as scrutiny round his well being and health for workplace continues to accentuate.