Donald Trump appeared to nod off during a live Oval Office press conference on Thursday, 4 June, as Fox News cameras lingered on the 79-year-old president while a senior official spoke about energy policy and coal miners.
The briefing was billed by the White House as a weighty update on Trump's efforts to steer peace talks around the US–Iran war and his self-appointed mediation role in the Israel–Lebanon stand-off, including attempts to broker regional ceasefires. It was exactly the kind of moment any administration would stage-manage carefully. Instead, what cut through online was a short, uncomfortable sequence in which the president's eyelids sagged, his face slackened and millions of viewers began asking whether he had simply fallen asleep.
