CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner on Thursday spelled out the possibly worrying consequence of Donald Trump’s obvious behavior of nodding off throughout daytime public occasions.
Reiner, a one-time heart specialist for late Vice President Dick Cheney, instructed “The Lead” anchor Jake Tapper that the president’s “daytime somnolence, his sleepiness” is “probably not a thriller.”
“He doesn’t sleep at night time. He’s up posting on social media in the midst of the night time,” Reiner identified. “However the internet impact is that he’s sleepy through the day and this has an actual concern.”
“The president may be very sleepy through the day; does his workers must curtail the size of briefings that he has?” Reiner requested. “It’s not only a self-importance factor; the president falls asleep. Have they needed to curtail his every day CIA briefings?”
The White Home has beforehand dismissed Trump’s obvious dozing as simply blinking.
Reiner’s feedback got here throughout a broader dialogue with Tapper on Trump’s well being after The Washington Put up reported that the president was evaluated by 22 medical specialists as a part of his latest bodily examination.
Reiner stated on X that there have been nonetheless “lingering questions regarding the president’s latest medical examination.”
He added, “One large query: Why have been so many (22) consultants introduced in to judge the president?”
