Salon White House correspondent Brian Karem says sources tell him Trump is indeed a sleepy zombie wandering around the White House.
“It’s weekend at Bernie’s in this White House right now,” Karem told ex-MAGA lawmaker Joe Walsh. “He’s not the same guy that was there in the first administration who would engage,’ He actually liked the give and take with us, me, Jim, Acosta. Johnathan Carl, members of the AP, the people who would push back and question him hard. He liked the give and take. He can’t take it now.”
When asked if Trump is literally falling asleep most every day in front of cameras and at important meetings Karem confirmed ‘yes.”
“Yes, it is real … and what’s bothersome about it is when you have people like Marco Rubio [saying] he’s never seen Donald Trump fall asleep in public while he’s standing in front of Donald Trump falling asleep in public ruins whatever credibility there is,” Karem said, adding that White House credibility is clearly shot.
“There’s something wrong, physically. And look, I’ve had people off the record from the National Institute of Health and from Walter Reed who are in [his] treatment. They’ll tell me off the record what they think is wrong with him, that ‘it’s physical, and I think it’s mental.’ And I will say that it’s obvious. You don’t have to be a doctor to understand there’s something wrong. You have to be a doctor to diagnose what is wrong,” said Karem. “… [T]his is nothing compared to what we saw with Reagan. This nothing compared with what we saw with Biden. This is far worse.”
“Do people around him understand that he falls asleep?” asked Walsh, incredulously.
“Oh yeah,” Karem confirmed. “They’ll say that off the record. I have plenty of people off the record who — I know staffers that are distributing memes of ‘Weekended at Bernie’s’ and they’ve got a picture of Donald Trump as Bernie. You know, it’s out there. White House staffers and former staffers, too. … Everyone knows. They’re all complicit in covering it up because they have something personal to gain from it.”
“But they won’t go on the record,” Karem added. “They say the quiet parts out loud, but deflect it when you ask, like … when Rubio says ‘I’ve never seen anyone work harder than Trump’ [instead of admitting Trump’s eyes are closed]. All of it is a deflection. All of it is non-transparent.”