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Listen, it's been a terrible 24 hours for Trump. There's no other way to say it. It started with getting off a plane and again, being unable to walk in a straight line and having to be helped by President Erdogan. And then it came when Donald Trump started confusedly looking around and having to be redirected by President Erdogan. And then Donald Trump said to President Zelensky, President Putin. And then Trump said that Japan struck an aircraft carrier of ours with 111 missiles. And then he referred to the Obama JCPoA as the Obama J. POC. It was a damn terrible day.
But then Donald Trump fell asleep again, and he didn't fall asleep. While Marco Rubio was talking during a cabinet meeting, he fell asleep while the Turkish President Erdogan was speaking. If Biden so much as blinked during an event, Republicans said that he was asleep. If Biden looked down for a second, they said he has no idea what's going on and he's not compost mentis. If Biden seemed tired during or after an international trip, it was breaking news for days. Donald Trump is now in the middle of another one of these viral clips, falling asleep right during his meeting with fellow authoritarian Turkish President Erdogan. Take a look at this. Trump leaning, desperate to try to stay awake. He should wear those glasses that have eyeballs on the outside. That would help. Is this America? The diamonds are there. She goes. This. Trying to pop his eye open. Realizing that the interpreter is speaking to him, but he just can barely do it. All this. The same stuff. The editor. In. Candidate who. Although I think you get the picture, it is not normal to fall asleep and to struggle to stay awake so regularly in the seated position, particularly in moments of relative relative adrenaline, in the sense that these are on camera meetings, lights, microphones, high stakes world leaders. It's not normal.
And there have been people who have talked about sleep apnea. I know a couple of doctors who are like, listen, you you can tell Trump has sleep apnea when you just consider his age and weight, the daytime sleepiness, the the breathing noises that he makes when he like, he just it's the full picture of sleep apnea. They haven't told us Trump has sleep apnea, but a bunch of doctor friends are like, he obviously has it. His head is tilted downward. He's not visibly engaging with the speech. Here's the sort of more zoomed in clip of it. Is this America? The diamonds are that good. This he. I love it when he just opens his left eye. He's like, am I supposed to be asleep right now? He's trying to pay attention to the interpreter of for what President Erdogan is saying, but he can't do it. And of course, this immediately spreads online and the right wing goes, he's clearly just doing engaged listening and all of that stuff. I care about the political aspects of this. They never applied this level of caution when it was Joe Biden. Like I said earlier, they didn't say maybe Biden was just resting his eyes. Maybe Biden was thinking, maybe we can't diagnose someone from 110 second clip. How about 1010 second clips? Instead they went. Case closed. Biden can't stay awake. He's mentally gone. He's unfit. Remove him now. And it wasn't just social media doing it, it was campaign messaging. It was cable news segments and political ads. And, you know, they were sending out fundraising emails making these claims. Sleepy Joe can't do it. He's demented. And they built a whole narrative around these types of moments.
So do they believe in that standard? That's all I want to know. If they do, this clip should be dominating conservative media for the next week. The president can't stay awake. And he said Japan shot us with 111 missiles. And he called President Zelensky President Putin. Now, if they are ready to cop to the fact that they don't really believe this is the standard, maybe those Biden clips never really proved what they said they proved in the first place. So I don't even know if the larger point is whether Trump fell asleep this particular time. I think he was trying to stay awake and probably was dozing. The larger point is they spent years saying these clips can be used to diagnose presidential incapacity. That's when the camera was on Biden. Now the cameras on Trump and everybody on the side is like, oh no, we need nuance. Now that's the hypocrisy that I'm pointing out here. And when this is happening, I mean, listen, is it 2 to 3 times a week now for months that Donald Trump is falling asleep in public? It's a very humble request. I just want the same standards applied. Am I crazy for wanting that?
And as I've said before, when they go, oh, we have a principle of free speech that we always adhere to, and then free speech gets a little bit inconvenient for their political adversaries, and then they go suppress their speech. We have a principle of low regulation. We don't get involved. Businesses can do what they want to do. And then Twitter prior to Elon owning it, goes, hey, we're not going to allow you to just post dangerous medical misinformation. And they go, no, regulate Twitter to force them to publish medical misinformation. Give me a break, guys. You don't believe this crap for a second. Don't try to convince us that you do. Thanks for watching. Check out another one of our videos and make sure to subscribe! So YouTube keeps our content in your feed, and if you prefer audio, subscribe to the podcast on Spotify or Apple.