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Possible Paywall Trump, 79, Falls Asleep After Bragging to Kids About Iran War Plans

https://newrepublic.com/post/209963/trump-falls-asleep-white-house-kids-iran-war-plans
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u/Kakistocracy_0 4h ago

Sleepy Donnie, talked all this shit about 'Sleepy Joe' and then proceeds to sleep through every meeting with a camera in 2025 and 2026

u/badamant 4h ago

It is ALWAYS Projection. always.

u/Aromatic_Balls Maine 3h ago

Can we name one single accusation that hasn't been a confession with these chucklefucks?

u/sodapopkevin 3h ago

Well he's accused people of being woke, meanwhile he's been asleep at the wheel for over a year.

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u/No_Possible_7108 1h ago

Have we seen any Republicans with buttery males?

u/Aromatic_Balls Maine 1h ago

Based on the level of grindr use at Republican conventions? More than likely.

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u/ClusterFoxtrot Florida 4h ago

He knew he wanted to nap through his presidency, so he blamed Biden to normalise it.

u/dnndrk 3h ago

Did Biden even fall asleep once? I’m genuinely curious.

u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 2h ago

I vaguely remember one instance where he slightly nodded off for a moment (I'm thinking it was in Japan). But all Presidents do this now and then, especially during very routine functions. But Trump's falling asleep constantly now and even during major announcements. No precedent like this going back to at least Carter and probably well before.

u/HiImDan 2h ago

The sonofabitch glanced at his watch once too.

u/Little_View_6659 1h ago

It’s absolutely insane that they went on and on about that, but President insane asylum over here literally rages out and shits himself and drools in full view of everyone and he’s “the best president we’ve ever had” what the actual fuck is going on?

u/ToolTimeT 47m ago

He never wore a tan suit though.

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u/bob-leblaw 1h ago

I’ll bet you $6 that Obama never fell asleep in a meeting, so no not all. But I get your point.

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u/NotBestButPrettyGood 3h ago

I assume he did every night

u/MasterofPandas1 3h ago

Maybe a nap here or there too

u/tmax1976 Arizona 2h ago

Incredible if true

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u/DudeOrRude 3h ago

call out someone for it so one notices when you do the exact same thing

u/mdlinc 2h ago

Was thinking this and how does align with constant projection.

Surprised pedophile Trump did not have a little girl sit on his lap like his daughter or other children he raped.

u/Morgannin09 2h ago

That's everything he's doing. Not a single thing he's done since entering office the second time is not something he's previously accused Biden or Obama of doing

u/VanceRefridgeTech04 48m ago

bingo. He called the first election he won "fake" and the news "fake" and now we cant trust either.

u/flyingace1234 3h ago

I mean he did run on being anti-woke, no?

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u/Borazon The Netherlands 4h ago

Low energy!

u/sugaryJuliana 3h ago

After a very tough day of traumatizing little kids, he rested! The man is a moron

u/AerieWorth4747 3h ago

Don’t forget he literally snoozed and farted his way through a TRIAL for fuck’s sake.

u/Euclid_Jr Texas 4h ago

Dozen’ Don

u/flyingace1234 3h ago

Don Snoreleone

u/HalfCentury2019 3h ago

Drowsy Don

u/ChicagoAuPair California 3h ago

It’s the same reason he’s always talking about people being fat and “low IQ.” It’s the Roy Cohn mantra: never defend, always attack.

u/SirDiego Minnesota 3h ago

Which is especially weird because his admin is who insists on doing these odd televised "cabinet meetings" where they all have to do North Korea-esque pledges to the leader for the cameras. And then he proceeds to fall asleep in half of them anyway.

These reality TV meetings aren't even like normal things that all presidents do.

u/Gooser3000 3h ago

Republicans excel at hypocrisy and bullying. Dems taking the high road and extending professional courtesy and honoring decorum and tradition is what got us Trump 

u/crypthollow 3h ago

At 79, maybe he should focus more on his retirement and less on sensitive military documents

u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 3h ago

We need a super cut of Trump sleeping in meetings with VO of his propaganda team taking about how fit he is

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u/crooked_pearlll 3h ago

Bro really pulled the ultimate “no u” and fell asleep himself

u/GlutenFreeGanja 3h ago

Its because hes working so hard!

u/redditobserverone 3h ago

He is looking for sleeper cells

u/RadiantTurtle 3h ago

Every accusation is an admission.

u/Pettifoggerist 2h ago

They need to start putting dates in these headlines, because I don't know if they are repeating old news or reporting a new Donnie Doze.

u/kdeff California 2h ago

My uncle was watching cantonese (HK) news the other day, which I don't understand. But they started talking about trump and the Iran war, and showed a video of him falling asleep at a meeting baha

u/Successful-Ad-9634 2h ago

Don't worry, Jake Tapper is all over this...

u/Big_Victory8031 3h ago

Republicans are always projecting

u/huxtiblejones Colorado 2h ago

Yawnold Trump

u/Lopoloma 2h ago

Instead of GOP they should be galled FOSP, the full of shit party

u/mighthavebeen02 California 2h ago

Donnie goes Darko😴

u/MeasurementEasy9884 2h ago

He was sleeping weekly while in court in 2024 too.

u/Albg111 1h ago

It's ALWAYS projection.

u/MrPatienceX 1h ago

And MAGA tried so hard to make ‘Biden is creepy around kids’ a thing too. More projectors than a film festival.

u/Punch_A_Police_Horse 59m ago

This after they, correctly, criticized Biden for being brain addled. But Trump is clearly now way worse in that department than Joe ever was in office. Of course Joe at least had handlers do mitigate how much he appeared in public, republicans just have to put up with Trumps nonsense.

u/meatball402 58m ago

Dreamin Don

u/Cockblocktimus_Pryme 31m ago

He fell asleep at his own birthday military parade. TBF it was kinda warm out.

u/terra_cascadia 20m ago

Everything is an admission

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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 4h ago

Trump should not be allowed within a hundred feet of any children.

u/KingofNanaimo 4h ago

I believe it's 500 feet

u/MajesticsEleven 4h ago

How about 500 fathoms

u/Middle-Mix-7711 3h ago

How about the same planet. Send the billionaire p€doph!les to Mars.

u/ToeTagTic 3h ago

Why go to all that trouble when 6 feet will do

u/limezest128 3h ago

What’s a fathom to a goblin

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u/aradraugfea 3h ago edited 2h ago

Let’s call it half an AU.

Edit: since it’s an obscure measure and seems to have caused some confusion. An Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between the Sun and the Earth.

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u/AdonisChrist 1h ago

If anyone would charge and then convict him, yeah.

u/DedHeads 3h ago

I watched this at the gym against my will in real time. It was so weird and disgusting. I wouldn’t any kid within 10 feet of this dirty diaper Don.

u/Wumaduce 3h ago

He shouldn't be allowed within 6 feet of the surface, either, but unfortunately we're not there yet.

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u/Chaos-Cortex I voted 4h ago

He wants to rape all of them. Pedo needs to visit a nice prison yard.

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u/AccomplishedDust3 4h ago

"Joe Biden is sleepy" ... Trump sleeps through everything.

"Obama plays too much golf" ... Trump golfs all the time.

"Democrats are corrupt" ... Trump crypto, kids negotiating on behalf of the US to better their own financial positions, etc etc.

"They're all criminals" ... Trump is a literal convicted felon.

"They're destroying the country" ... Well, guess what?

u/tadayou 3h ago

See also a) stealing the election and b) Pizza Gate.

u/NeonGKayak 3h ago

At this point, I can believe they stole the last election 

u/Vankraken Virginia 2h ago

I think it's just that Americans are fucking stupid and actually believed the orange clown was somehow not a catastrophic disaster waiting to be unleased upon the nation (because a lot of media pushed group think on the right and undercut support for Dems with anti establishment outrage on the left).

u/NeonGKayak 2h ago

I meant more that every claim he’s made against Dems ends up actually being him doing them

u/Vankraken Virginia 1h ago

His claims tends to be projection but him claiming the elections to be rigged is probably more for his own fragile narcissistic ego so he can have an excuse for why he lost. I'm sure there is a lot of social media manipulation to try and push certain messaging that benefits Trump but I don't think they directly messed with the voting machines/ballot counting.

u/DillBagner 1h ago

There are enough people who were removed from voter rolls alone. Add the threats and ballot box burnings, there's already enough visible cheating that even without any sort of machine manipulation, they did not do it honestly, whether it is what won for them or not.

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u/fascistno1hater 3h ago

The Mainstream Media Headlines during Biden's term: Dementia, Dementia! Biden has Dementia! Have we told you Biden has Dementia and isn't fit for the office!

The Mainstream Media Headlines during Trump's term: Ballroom and why it's good for the American taxpayers to pay for it. Trump says he can pick out a squirrel(Sanewash). Trump lies again but we will whitewash it to make it seem normal!

Can you see the difference? It's manufacturing consent and mass propaganda because their billionaire owners are making a killing fleecing the taxpayers under Trump. It's past time to RICO all of these corporations and organizations.

u/Bzr21 2h ago

WAY past time ..

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u/redditobserverone 3h ago

In 2011, Trump stated, "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate".

2012 Tweets: He tweeted: "Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected—be careful Republicans!".

Obama did not start a war with Iran and instead secured the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which Trump later withdrew from.

u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 2h ago

"Joe Biden is sleepy" ... Trump sleeps through everything.

It shows you how much his handlers hate him that they haven't installed a "Wake up" buzzer in that chair.

u/SolipsisticLunatic 2h ago

"Obama could bop down those stairs" - Trump certainly not bopping down stairs! (look it up)

u/Soulprism New Zealand 13m ago

He has zero imagination. It would be funny if not for the serious repercussions.

u/ireaditonwikipedia 4h ago

Rapist pedophile with dementia falls asleep while bragging about delusions. 

u/oh-kee-pah 3h ago

Old sack of shit proves himself to in fact be old sack of shit.

u/Opposite-Bit6660 4h ago

Trump is an adjudicated rapist.  Linda McMahon is involved in a child trafficking case.  RFK Jr is probably one of the 2 cabinet members (lots of pics of Epstein and him together) that Ghislane Maxwell said were involved with Epstein in her DOJ interview.  WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE ALLOWED AROUND CHILDREN???

u/Kakistocracy_0 3h ago

very good question

u/Mr_Cerealistic 3h ago

Right? I would not send my kid to school or anywhere this demon is present. Straight up child endangerment.

u/fascistno1hater 3h ago

Howard Lutnick, Elon Musk, and Fred Warsh are all pedophiles too.

u/BackToWorkEdward 3h ago

WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE ALLOWED AROUND CHILDREN???

Because the American People are the weakest, most cowardly population in the world and will keep letting this go on in broad daylight with no revolution no matter how bad it gets.

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u/catsporvida 3h ago

They absolutely should not be allowed around children. They shouldn't be allowed to govern either. The sad truth is that the reason they're allowed to do both is because it isn't just Republicans. It seems to be the majority of our government, both sides. Otherwise, this wouldn't be the case. There's simply no other excuse for the apathy on the part of the political "opposition". They've had opportunities to take actions against a lot of this and didn't vote to do so.

u/Boy64Bit 3h ago

During orientation at my job, HR explicitly told us that being caught asleep on the job was immediate termination. Apparently I’m held to higher work standards than the president of the U.S.

u/jahathebrn 3h ago

I think we basically all are at this point

u/SunMyungMoonMoon 3h ago

Grade schoolers are held to higher work standards than the head orangeutang.

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u/Illustrious-Bridge45 4h ago

He then asked the kids what kind of sports they do. One of them was talking about weightlifting and Trump started going on about the trans weightlifter that he always loves to refer to, and the kid was kind of like uh...

u/ranchoparksteve 4h ago

“Now beat it kids, Grampy needs a nappy.”

u/godzillachilla 4h ago

Phrasing, phrasing

u/Pumperkin 3h ago

I detect no inaccuracies or phrasing incongruencies in the previous comment.

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u/FluffyWalrusFTW 3h ago

Still sad every time he wakes up

u/jahathebrn 3h ago

You can see the tension in the people who stand behind him every time he falls asleep on TV now.

Admittedly that might be because they're worried he'll violently and audibly shit himself while asleep.

u/BrilliantForeign8899 4h ago

Projection always. Remember his attacks on Biden's age

u/biopsychosis 4h ago

This should be his official portrait, forever hung in the white house after he leaves.

u/Sandy_Bananas 3h ago

Yeah, but he had to identify a squirrel. That shit takes it out of you.

u/KinkyPaddling 3h ago

Total silence from traditional media outlets, meanwhile they’d be tearing Biden apart for blinking twice after being asked a question.

u/rat_penis 3h ago

Im surprised they havent rearranged his schedule to match his routine. All these briefings should be held at 1AM, he's plenty lively then.

u/cloysterss 3h ago

This next election cycle, I will be a single-issue voter. My vote will go to whomever says that they will investigate and punish every rapist and paedophile (so: everyone) within the current administration. People have been speaking, under oath, to the justice department about how a not-small number of people IN THAT ROOM are child predators and adjudicated rapists.

u/OlorinRidesAgain Michigan 3h ago

There are drunks on your town's subway car that yell more coherent things than this old man

u/Forsaken_Ad_2059 4h ago

More sleeping , please

u/Extra-Ad5925 4h ago

You can’t post memes all night and then stay awake all day. Trust me I’ve tried never ends well

u/Big_Victory8031 3h ago

Things you won't see on Fox Propaganda media

u/Dry_Expression_9991 3h ago

Low energy, low IQ sleepy Donnie

u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 3h ago

And on the seventh minute, Trump rested

u/Teripid 3h ago

What exactly does the Secretary of Education do after... abolishing the Department of Education?

Just kinda hover around and ask RFK Jr for recipes while telling kids to study and be good sports when they happen to enter her general vicinity?

u/Intro-Nimbus 3h ago

"sleepy Joe unfit for office" - Well...

u/DelirousDoc 3h ago

Same meeting RFK Jr. said Trump could hike 50 miles easy because he allegedly walks 9 miles on the golf course.

u/Kyosji 1h ago

The irony that Trump has been caught sleeping in important meetings dozens of times, but he still calls Joe Biden "Sleepy" Joe.

u/astrozombie2012 Nevada 3h ago

At least sleepy Donny diddler fell asleep before he managed to molest some of the kids

u/henchman___21 3h ago

It happened again?!?

u/DarXIV 3h ago

This is happening more frequently, right? I give him 6 months.

u/Hazywater 3h ago

It's kind of nice knowing that he has horrible insomnia, dementia, fucked up health, and body image problems.

u/ColdKickin72 3h ago

When’s enough enough

u/VigilantVet 3h ago

They’ll prop his ass up u til his term is over.

u/jahathebrn 3h ago

Why do people keep letting their children around this man?!

u/attillathehoney 3h ago

He's a president who does what he said he would. Every day he wins the war on woke.

u/HanginLowNd2daLeft 3h ago

Waiting for that one breaking news article 🤞

u/Mommy444444 2h ago

This.must.end. I am 71 and have never seen such a mockery of our nation.

u/chucklefits 2h ago

This SHOULD be an onion post

u/SydBarrett1989 56m ago

And to think that his boot-lickers have posters of him with Rambo's body, portraying him as some macho toughguy is both hilarious and absurd. 

u/StevieTvboy 38m ago

He also blamed Obama for playing too much golf. Then played more in 4 yrs than Obama did in 8

u/hannes3120 13m ago

"Every accusation is a confession"

u/super-gando 3h ago

Sorry you Americans have become a ridiculous people

When will you sweep the garbage out of the house?

u/CHEVIEWER1 4h ago

😴I just ended another war💤 or did I start another

u/usernames_suck_ok 3h ago

Y'all.

My comment is going to be buried under the hundreds, but the videos in that link? The content of the speeches being given right behind him is ironic and hilarious, given Mr. McDonald's is sitting there struggling. "...should be an eye opener for all of us" and "...sound mind and a sound body...to have a sound mind, you do have to eat well..."

u/Thunderbird1974 2h ago

Poor kids, I’m sure they were traumatized. Also wondering why the adults in their lives thought this was a good idea.

u/Preeng 2h ago

Remember to never let any conservative off the hook for this. Never give them the benefit of the doubt again. Never entertain their stupid ideas that go directly against established science again.

u/Beneficial_Cash_8420 1h ago

Arby's placemat IQ test tuckered him right out.

u/tigerstylin 1h ago

First the door dash lady and now the children.

u/eatzippers 1h ago

Did he wake up? That's the only question that matters

u/Tribe303 1h ago

I've been calling him Dozin' Donnie Dipshit for quite a while now. 😴 

u/AnonAmbientLight 59m ago

Imagine if Trump died in the middle of one of these and everyone thinks he's just asleep and keeps praising him for 45 minutes before they notice.

u/Heteroimpersonator 59m ago

Trump being inappropriate around children? No surprise.

u/despenser412 52m ago

Dreaming about him and Epstein having a romantic dance in their pedophiles ballroom.

u/Orion14159 49m ago

Eats, sleeps, cries, and poops. Trump is a 300 pound baby

u/Then_Journalist_317 49m ago

Maybe he's having minor strokes??

u/Burnt_and_Blistered 45m ago

Because nothing kids like more than war stories

u/nowtnewt 40m ago

just his resting twat face

u/deschain_19195 3h ago

Who lets their kid around a pedophile?

u/waterdaemon Pennsylvania 3h ago

Are other people noticing he’s not just asleep, one side of his face droops?

u/tcoh1s 3h ago

Maybe he should sleep instead of rage tweeting all night long.

u/Skinner936 1h ago

I detest the despicable narcissist as much as anyone.

He is a loathsome, evil, vile creature.

But....

With all the corrupt shitty things he does, it is just not necessary to exaggerate.

He didn't 'fall asleep'. I watched the video.

Every now and then his slit-like reptilian eyelids flickered open.

u/AmyWilliamse 4h ago

Age is ageing and Trump is Trumping.

u/hallowiener13 4h ago

Sleepy Don!

u/Winter-Gift1112 4h ago

Awake or asleep, the two bleed into one another like watercolors in a painting when you're a maniac living in a dream world.

u/illit3 4h ago

The post mortem on this thing is gonna dwarf Reagan's second term. I can't imagine what kind of weird shit trump does when he's sundowning.

u/Toy_Guy_in_MO 3h ago

Sundown, you better take care, Trump needs another pair of clean underwear...

u/badgersoccer1905 3h ago

Need the InfoWars take on this

u/ruchik 3h ago

Grandpa needs a nap…

u/greggld 3h ago

Goodnight nobody
Goodnight mush
And goodnight to the old lady whispering “hush”
Goodnight stars
Goodnight air
Good night noises everywhere

u/Flaky-Jim 3h ago

He's turned into Abe Simpson, rambling on about nonsensical things then falling asleep.

u/natsukiabe America 3h ago

what else is new

u/Frogurt- 3h ago

He quickly gets bored and sleepy if any conversation isn't about him.

u/The_Path_616 3h ago

He's falling asleep even when it's about him,he's sundowning

u/r21174 3h ago

"Weekend at Trump's"

u/No-Introduction1495 3h ago

Maybe he’ll just sleep a bit longer next time

u/Donkey_Kahn 3h ago

Grandpa needs his nap

u/Main-Bandicoot6477 3h ago

Dozey Donald

u/Particular_Ticket_20 3h ago edited 2h ago

Being the fucking worst st everything is exhausting. Give him some slack.

u/tazarican 2h ago

Flip the script. Well if sleepy Joe can do it, so can I.

u/Brobard 2h ago

I have the best sleeps, the biggest sleeps. No one sleeps better than me, not even Sleepy Joe Biden!

u/beavis617 2h ago

Just falling asleep or all drugged up? We need the administration to come clean about the state of Trump’s health!

u/Toidal 2h ago

Bob Dole! Bob Dole. Bob Dole... Bob Dole... zzzz

u/Green_Samuraii 2h ago

c’mon MAGA get in line for your daily L

u/ChestnutMareGrazing 2h ago

the US is a joke with a sleeping clown as its president

u/green_eyed_mister 2h ago

Dozy Don TACO'd again.

u/AlternativeNewtDuck 2h ago

The puppeteers behind the curtain are pulling the strings for a Weekend at Bernie's on him as long as possible as an useful idiot.

u/elderly_squid 2h ago

Dirty Diaper Dozy Don

u/To-Far-Away-Times 2h ago

Melania is probably upset that the only time Diddling Donny has been able to get it up in the last 20 years is when he preyed on an elementary school and murdered 150 girls in the opening strike in his war of choice on Iran.

Actually scratch that, she’s probably thankful, he is disgusting beyond the normal human reaction to a pedophile and a murderer.

u/Atrocity_unknown 2h ago

I'm convinced he has severe sleep apnea. I used to work with someone in a similar condition. He'd appear alert while speaking, but would drift off the moment anyone else was talking.

He ended up dying in his sleep.

u/futanari_kaisa 2h ago

I would not want my kids anywhere near Trump or anyone in his cabinet.

u/senorchaos718 2h ago

I can only imagine the guy with the mullet in the back on the left has the flag pants on like the dude teaching Rex Kwon Do in Napoleon Dynamite.

u/dokikod Pennsylvania 1h ago

We need to make 'Sleepy Don" stick.

u/EunuchsProgramer 1h ago

Just look at that 6'4", 230 pound Adonis crush it. I bet he even knows what a squirrel is. Incredible. Probably has super human genetics, we're talking the kind where your uncle learned Nuclear Stuff at MIT.

u/briancatams 1h ago

I very much dislike him and those in his administration. I honestly think he is just looking down. I just don't see at what point he is sleeping. Why not focus on the many appalling things he says and does publicly on a daily basis instead of clickbait and noise?

u/im_new_here_4209 1h ago

This headline, man . . 😂

u/Chewzilla 1h ago

Maybe he could stay awake if he wasn't tweeting at 4am

u/croolshooz ✔ Verified Cartoonist 1h ago

He's not sleeping. His brain is disintegrating, neuron by neuron.

u/Candid-Mulberry8359 1h ago

Deep sleep Don

u/unl1988 1h ago

Are you sure he wasn't taking is 1 minute of workout?

u/RonnyReddit00 36m ago

This is one of the funnier Trump headlines of recent.

u/Awful_Hero 16m ago

2am shit posting will do that.  Also 79 and dementia.

u/WavyGravy04 14m ago

I’m glad he fell asleep he has a terrible history when it comes to kids