Trump Appears to Doze Off During Televised Cabinet Meeting

Video from a White House Cabinet meeting on December 2, 2025 showed President Trump repeatedly closing his eyes, with his head dropping and jerking back up, during a session that ran more than two hours. One widely circulated clip captured him appearing to fall asleep while Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke beside him.

The footage was confirmed as authentic by fact-checkers and drew wide attention partly because Trump had long mocked President Biden as "Sleepy Joe" for similar moments of apparent fatigue on camera. A member of Congress later accused a cabinet secretary of misleading lawmakers about whether the incidents occurred.

The White House dismissed the episode as an overblown reaction to a long workday, but it fed into a broader public conversation about the 79-year-old president's stamina and fitness for office, adding to a string of similar moments during his second term.