Donald Trump's apparent struggle to stay awake at a White House ceremony on Thursday, 11 June, has turned a routine ocean protections order into a very public embarrassment. The US president was signing a proclamation that rolls back marine conservation rules when cameras caught him looking groggy as North Dakota governor Doug Burgum spoke.
The move is part of Trump's wider campaign to unwind ocean protections created under previous administrations. Those safeguards had placed large stretches of US waters off limits to commercial fishing, a policy conservation groups have long defended as essential to vulnerable marine life and Trump has repeatedly attacked as a burden on the seafood industry.
