A Fox News visitor host is getting a actuality test on social media after her over-the-top declare about President Donald Trump’s vitality ranges.
Trump, 79, has been seen struggling to remain alert in public since returning to the White Home early this yr. Final week, the New York Times reported that Trump is holding fewer occasions, touring much less and dealing shorter days as a concession to the realities of an getting old president.
However Fox Information contributor Lisa Boothe, filling in for Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle,” slammed the report, defended Trump, and attacked former President Joe Biden.
“The person is sort of 80 however he’s additionally a machine. I imply, he barely sleeps, he works across the clock and he continually talks to the press and in the meantime Biden all the time slept, labored typically, and by no means talked to the press except they had been asking about ice cream flavors,” she mentioned.
Boothe’s declare comes amid growing concerns over the president’s health ― together with a hastily announced go to to Walter Reed Medical Heart final month for a “routine yearly checkup” simply six months after his annual bodily.
That check included an MRI, which Trump later mentioned was “good.”
Nevertheless, neither he nor the White Home has defined why he wanted an MRI within the first place.
He’s additionally confronted questions over his vigor and vitality ranges.
Trump appeared to nod off repeatedly during his criminal trial in New York final yr, though he and his authorized advisors denied it.
And this yr, he’s been seen battling heavy eyelids at White Home occasions.
Earlier this month, a Washington Post analysis discovered that Trump spent practically 20 minutes battling to maintain his eyes open throughout an Oval Workplace assembly. Equally, MS NOW host Katy Tur ― who coated Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign ― told The Daily Beast that Trump “doesn’t have the identical quantity of vitality” and isn’t “as coherent as he was once.”
“He’s all the time been not totally coherent, but it surely’s totally different now. He’s slower. His speech is slower,” she said. “You possibly can see him falling asleep typically, or showing to go to sleep within the Oval Workplace.”
Trump has attacked stories of his flagging vitality, writing on Truth Social this week:
“There might be a day once I run low on Power, it occurs to everybody, however with a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (“That was aced”) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it definitely just isn’t now!”
Nevertheless, critics on X mentioned the photographs of Trump at latest occasions inform the actual story of his vitality ranges:
