{"id":9804,"date":"2025-11-18T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:11:11","slug":"white-house-issues-scathing-response-after-trump-was-seen-passed-out-in-chair-during-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=9804","title":{"rendered":"White House issues scathing response after Trump was seen \u2018passed out\u2019 in chair during meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration was compelled to release a forceful statement after the President appeared to slump in his chair and briefly close his eyes during a public Oval Office event\u2014a moment widely photographed and shared online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Officials dismissed claims that he had fallen asleep as \u201cgarbage.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of m0cking his predecessor as \u201cSleepy Joe,\u201d Donald Trump faced a wave of ridicule on social media for seeming to nod off during a critical presentation on the cost of weight loss medication. California Governor Gavin Newsom was quick to jab, posting on X: \u201cDOZY DON IS BACK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now older than Biden was when he first took office in 2020, Trump appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open while Dr. Oz, his appointee as head of Medicare services and former television host, outlined plans to reduce weight loss drug prices for Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople can finally rest easier, knowing these drugs will be more affordable,\u201d Oz said beside the Resolute Desk, as the President appeared to battle sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration was compelled to release a forceful statement after the President appeared to slump in his chair and briefly close his eyes during a public&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9805,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions\/9805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}