Footage from a White House roundtable on college sports on Friday showed Donald Trump sitting beside House Speaker Mike Johnson with his eyes shut for an extended period as the discussion continued, raising questions about the president's stamina during a televised event intended to focus on NCAA reform and the future of college athletics. Trump hosted the meeting in Washington with several of the biggest names in sport around the table, including former Alabama coach Nick Saban, NCAA president Charlie Baker and NBA commissioner Adam Silver.
The gathering was supposed to be about the governance crisis in college sport, not the president's health. Trump had convened stakeholders from college athletics, professional sport, business and politics as his administration continued to press for structural changes in an increasingly chaotic system. Instead, the cameras focused on something entirely different, as often occurs in this White House.
