Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Wednesday, May 06, 2026

President Donald Trump, who insists he feels like he did 50 years ago, has been caught in a public bout of daytime drowsiness. The 79-year-old president appeared to slip into a heavy-eyed daze during an Oval Office proclamation signing on Tuesday to restore the Presidential Fitness Test in schools. The president's latest public sleeping fit comes less than two weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom accused him of being "asleep at the wheel" for appearing to nod off during a healthcare affordability event at the Oval Office. Newsom, 58, has taken to calling Trump "Dozy Don," a play on the nickname Trump gave his predecessor Joe Biden""Sleepy Joe""to mock the then-president's apparent decline.

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