During former President Joe Biden's four years in office, Donald Trump often mocked him as "Sleepy Joe" — arguing that Biden lacked the energy needed to meet the demands of the White House. But Trump, now 79 years old and ten and one-half months into his second presidency, is being dogged by reports that he is literally falling asleep on the job. Trump angrily dismisses reports on his physical or mental fitness as "fake news," but reports of the U.S. president nodding off persist.
Former GOP strategist Tim Miller addressed Trump's physical fitness during a Monday, December 8 conversation with MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace, a fellow Never Trump conservative who formerly served as White House communications director in the George W. Bush Administration. And Miller later offered more commentary on the subject in a video posted by the conservative website The Bulwark.
Wallace commented that Trump's aides are obviously not managing his schedule well if he is dozing off. Later, in his video for The Bulwark, Miller explained, "At the very end of the clip, you'll see Nicolle object somewhat to my assessment of Trump's schedule management. And basically, she's making the case that they're not managing his schedule if he's falling asleep. And I take that point."
Miller continued, "I guess the point I was trying to make is that you can see how they're trying to do it, and that you can see how they're messing with his schedule — trying to make it seem like he's out there all the time without tiring him too much. Obviously, that's not working that well, as evidenced by the dozing. But to me, the most interesting thing is just the trajectory and how you're starting to see his schedule get closer and closer to what we saw from Biden…. Fewer public events, less traveling. And, you know, we all know what they said about that. So, three more years later for him to get older and older and tireder and tireder and drowsier and drowsier."
Miller commented that he'll see if Fox News has any "Drowsy Don" segments in the days and weeks ahead.