“I didn’t sleep, it was just boring!” »: Donald Trump denies dozing off during public meetings

If Donald Trump, the oldest president ever elected in the United States, closes his eyes during cabinet meetings, it’s not because he’s asleep, it’s because he’s bored. At least, that’s what he assured Thursday, during a Council of Ministers, in front of television cameras. “People said: He closed his eyes ! Look, it was quite boring, to be honest,” said the 79-year-old billionaire, referring to a Council of Ministers in August which lasted more than three hours and during which he was seen with lowered eyelids.

“It was a bit boring,” he repeated about this marathon event, during which his ministers had in turn showered him with praise, before he answered several questions from the journalists present. His opponents immediately assured that he had dozed off at times. “I didn’t sleep. I only closed my eyes because I really wanted to leave,” he insisted.

One of the official government accounts on » On Thursday, Donald Trump convened his government for the tenth time since returning to power, but the live-streamed meeting only lasted about an hour. And this time the president dismissed the press without answering any questions.

Trump wants to be anti-Biden

Among the ministers to whom he did not give the floor was in particular the Minister of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, whose Democratic opposition is demanding the departure after the death of two demonstrators killed by federal agents in Minneapolis (north) since the beginning of January.

The question of vigor is very sensitive for the Republican president, who presents himself as the antithesis of his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, whose verbal hesitations were described by Donald Trump as a sign of senility.

Donald Trump, much more active in the media than his predecessor, is however also the subject of questions about his health, for example about the bruises that appeared several times on his right hand and at least once on his left hand.

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, the US president said the bruises were the result of taking a daily dose of 325 milligrams of aspirin, considered high by experts, adding that his doctors would prefer he take a “smaller” pill. “They say that aspirin thins the blood and I don’t want my heart pumping thick blood,” Donald Trump said during this interview.