The irony about Trump is that he can’t refrain himself anymore from showing exactly what is wrong with him. He used to better at hiding it, but nowadays he can’t stop himself from exposing the many things that are wrong.
The napping thing during public events is one of them.
It is not clear if he even tries to keep his eyes open, but whatever he tries it doesn’t work. (And then he goes all sleepy again.) Instead of admitting that he constantly falls asleep for a medical reason, The White House simply lies about it, and the lies are so bad that they only put the spotlights on nappy time even more.
In the picture above — which was taken only very recently on an event about maternal health in the Oval Office — it was claimed that he was blinking, nothing more, nothing less. Only it was a continuous blink of a full 17 seconds.
And then we have the MRIs (for “confirming once again how healthy the obese man really is”), or even worse: the cognitive tests.
He can’t stop lying about them, and by doing so he draws attention to the very fact that he doesn’t understand that cognitive tests are not used at all to check one’s intelligence, and that “acing them” is not a special mental achievement at all —
- cognitive tests are actually very easy for someone who is cognitively normal (they are hard for someone who is dealing with dementia symptoms, though);
- Trump constants says how hard they really are, thus underlining that he found them very hard (for once, he is probably telling the truth);
- did I mentioned that his dad suffered from Alzheimer’s ?;
- then he lies about the questions, quoting time and again some “very hard” numerical calculation (e. g.); the thing is that (1) first of all he did not get that question; (2) he claims he could solve it but the man does not even understand simple percentages, and obviously he couldn’t even make much easier calculations; (3) he doesn’t understand that a normal intelligent person actually can make that calculation on a piece of paper, and (4) did I mention that his dad suffered from Alzheimer’s ?;
- he had two do at least two cognitive tests by now (and we all know he didn’t ace them, because otherwise we would have seen them), which makes his claims even more ridiculous.
(And let’s not even begin about his true intelligence altogether.)
Of course we could go on and on and on: the words he can’t pronounce or simply understand anymore, the sentences that are never finished, the conversations he cannot follow, the questions he does not understand., the tariffs nobody has been able to explain him.
His mental capacities were never impressive (and that’s a kind way of phrasing it), but they are toddler-like nowadays (and toddlers also need a lot of nappy time) —
Did I mention that his dad suffered from Alzheimer’s ?