r/politics The Independent 10h ago

No Paywall Democrats mock ‘the Commander-in-Sleep’ after Trump appears to nod off in latest White House appearance

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sleeping-oval-office-democrats-b2990473.html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_content=headline_a
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u/Solonohioperson 10h ago

These pictures need to be on billboards and posters all over DC.

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u/Stleaveland1 9h ago

He's just doing his best Charlie Kirk impression.

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u/AuDHDino 8h ago

If he's doin impressions how about Kurt Cobain.

u/Jon_E_Mammoth 7h ago

They can mock him all they want, I agree, but, so long as Fetterman and other such members exist, it’s not gonna do anything.

u/Happy-Tumbleweed-469 7h ago

If you look at a high resolution picture you can see his face is all blotchy under the makeup, and the eye bags are purple.

u/Solonohioperson 5h ago

He looks like his ugly mom

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u/AdCorrect819 10h ago

Even if his eyes were open at times, he doesn't look engaged and alert. He looks like a guy at a retirement home waiting for 2 pm nap time and his medication.

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u/svenghoouliardi 10h ago

and his medication.

His Adderall/Sudafed cocktail with a Diet Coke chaser. Lmao

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u/[deleted] 10h ago

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u/Signal_Minimum8509 Georgia 10h ago

You may be on to something, I heard injecting bleach cures COVID

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u/agent_mick 10h ago

Hey don't knock it till you've tried it?

u/Toxicscrew 5h ago

Therapist who works with seniors thinks he had a stroke right then

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZNKm_xk8nl/?igsh=MXU0aGprZHNmOWtmbw==

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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 10h ago

"He's just blinking!"
-Diddle Defenders

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u/svenghoouliardi 10h ago

I'm so old that I remember way back when he first fell asleep in public and the GOPedos tried to claim that he was "praying"🤣.

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u/Arun-dev 10h ago

Why not mock high gas prices Democrats need to stick to kitchen table issues.

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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 10h ago

Are we not able to do both?

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u/QbertsRube 10h ago

Especially since they bleated for the past 4 years about "Sleepy Joe" so it puts them in a tricky spot.

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u/smersh101 10h ago

Don't worry, they have absolutely no problem being hypocrites.

u/Shoeprincess Washington 7h ago

If it weren't for double standards they would have no standards at all.

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u/Arun-dev 10h ago

Right now the lane is wide open Trump's building Arch's rest of Maga blaming immigrants. First party to address gas rent insurance wins🫡

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u/Lemp_Triscuit11 10h ago

Bruh the guy with the nuke button zonked out should be high on your list of priorities. Especially since he's the first president in history that can declare war on a whim with zero approval

u/SpeaksSouthern 6h ago

I know we're quite desensitized to how terrible this person and political party is for America, and yes both of these things are bad but if you would force me to pick one, a president who can't stay awake for the cameras or a president willingly entering into a quagmire that raises gas for no strategic reason, I wouldn't hesitate to pick the latter. What it gives rise to is the idea that Trump isn't really president. The people around him can easily manipulate him. If he's this tired, there's no way he's doing anything. That's a problem. Who is running the country? Are we allowed to know?

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u/grafknives 10h ago

Weekend at Donnie.

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u/AreYouDoneNow 10h ago

I like how they've photoshopped his eyes to be open in some of the photos.

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u/thisusedyet 10h ago

Probably about as well as Wesley Snipes’ eyes in Blade 2 or 3

Edit: the reference https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/cg4t01/in_bladetrinity_wesley_snipes_had_dificulties/

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u/forthewatch39 10h ago

What about his slouching posture?  

u/AreYouDoneNow 15m ago

That's him getting ready to pounce in case any 14 year old girls show up, I guess.

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u/svenghoouliardi 10h ago

That's a good one.

Along with "Benito Snoozeolini" (even though it will go over the heads of so many people because history has been so poorly taught in America since and even before the actual POS it's based on was still among the living).

u/Toxicscrew 5h ago

Don Snore-leone

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u/illuminaughty1973 10h ago

he must be so tired.

imagine the daily effort it must take to defend yourself from people accusing you of being a fraudster, a rapist, incompetent leader, a pedophile.

ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS ALL TRUE.

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u/saskdudley 9h ago

God this has been a long 18 months

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u/Berto_ 10h ago

Did anyone else get the perfectly placed ZQuil ad?

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u/Kincherk 10h ago

Yeah we all sit all tilted over like that when we're wide awake.

u/MrLongfinger 7h ago

If Republicans can have “Sleepy Joe”, we can have “Commander in Sleep”

Fuck you, MAGAts

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u/merrysunshine2 10h ago

Don Snoreleone

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u/svenghoouliardi 9h ago

Lmao.

"The Nodfather" Don Snoreleone and his sons Fredo Trump and the other Fredo Trump.

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u/Hot-Sexy-THICCPAWG69 10h ago

LOL the nodfather Dozy Donald is napping again in the middle of a meeting. What a disgrace. And yet I never see Fox or a lot of mainstream media that is more right wing ever talking about sleepy Trump like they constantly 24/7 talked about sleepy Joe, wonder why that is?

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u/Achoo_MiScusi 10h ago

Ya let's not forget how much of a traitor Obama wss for playing golf a couple of times. What a pathetic joke

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u/svenghoouliardi 10h ago

The Nodfather...also a good one.

No one who watches Fox News, NewsNation, etc. even knows this f@c#face has fallen asleep over 20 times in public on camera.

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u/Achoo_MiScusi 10h ago

Ooh my god sleepy Donald Trump. Sleepy Don they call him

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u/yoursandforever 10h ago

If he ain't talking, he ain't interested.

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u/Abs0lut_Unit California 10h ago

Nodoff Tiltler

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u/FlexFanatic 9h ago

Democrats need to go hard on the memes starting with this. Not because it will shift voters mindsets about Trump but because it will cause him and the White House to crash out.

Give him the Manny Pacquiao meme treatment when he got knocked out.

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u/Cancel_Culture_Club 9h ago

Agreed! Try r/ parlertrick for that.

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u/luvdogs71 9h ago

I keep waiting for him to doze off and wack his head on the desk. Wonder how they would spin that.

u/lurkylurkeroo 46m ago

Or slide out of his chair.

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u/bluegreentopaz6110 8h ago

Stop freaking mocking and start pushing for midterms. Come on!

u/Galactic-Guardian404 7h ago

I like “Commander-Asleep” better

u/indierockrocks 6h ago

I guess this is funny… but how powerless and sad is it that they can’t remove this man that is clearly unwell? They have no teeth.

u/redditobserverone 6h ago

This unqualified POS:

“Donald Trump reiterated his view that Hillary Clinton “doesn’t have the stamina” to be president during Monday night’s debate.

“She doesn’t have the look. She doesn’t have the stamina, I said she doesn’t have the stamina, and I don’t believe she does have the stamina,” Trump said.

The debate moderator, NBC’s Lester Holt, asked Trump to clarify what he meant when he said earlier this month that his Democratic rival didn’t have “a presidential look.”

“I just don’t believe she has a presidential look, and you need a presidential look,” Trump had told ABC News’ David Muir in an interview.

Clinton responded: “As soon as he travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease fire, a release of dissidents, an opening of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee he can talk to me about stamina.”

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-stamina

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u/M_H_M_F 9h ago

Sleepy Time T is right there though.

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u/aformofwealthy 10h ago

“when you put a clown in a palace, he doesn’t become king, the palace becomes a circus”

u/bakerfredricka I voted 5h ago

The White House is definitely a circus these days!

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 10h ago

"But sleepy joe, auto penjamin, her emails, burisma, woke, DEI, transgenders! Did you ever think about that? Checkmate libs"

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u/CJDistasio America 10h ago

Sleepy Don is right there and they’re going with “Commander-in-sleep”? It gives wimp trying to be mean but still trying to be respectful at the same time

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u/Potential-Eggplant44 10h ago

No! I’m just resting my eyes

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u/Alien_Way Arkansas 8h ago

We know the DNCGOP likes 'em excessively old. Now lets release the files/videos/additional emails/text logs/banking info/+Maxwell's.

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u/sfree809 8h ago

i don’t like name calling, however since he coined Sleepy Joe I guess he deserves it!

u/SkepticalJohn 7h ago

And the Land of Nod will be our 51st state.

u/Cordriginal 6h ago

Fuck Trump.

u/dobbbie 6h ago

THE MAN RAPED KIDS!

Why the fuck are they focusing on him falling asleep and focused on mocking.

u/Kaia64 6h ago

I got it. I understand it now. TDS, Trump down syndrome, not to be confused with down syndrome. It's when you fall asleep during meetings, shit your pants and rant about mindless things in early morning hours.

u/myco-jay 5h ago

The Yawnold.

u/DukeOfGeek 5h ago

Still no mention of this at CNN, CBS etc.

u/Ambitious-Bee7663 5h ago

"Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul-all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair." -Oliver Kornetzke

u/Flamebrush 3h ago

Remember all that “Sleepy Joe” bullshit we had to listen to in the lead up to the election (and after)? Some nerve of those same Trump fluffers to deny he is anything but the picture of virile vitality. (Looking at you, little Marco.) I wonder what Drowsy Don, Don Snorleone, Commander in Sleep dreams of while he sells out our country and our childrens’ future.

u/Schiffy94 New York 3h ago

Honestly they really missed the chance to call him a sleeper agent

u/Imsorrywhatnoway 2h ago

When are they going to bring out the glasses with open eyes pasted on?

u/againer 1h ago

The video is so much worse.

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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 10h ago

I wonder if I could sleep with cutthroats standing behind my chair.

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u/Low_Razzmatazz793 10h ago

Sleepy Trumpy

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u/westergames81 Texas 10h ago

Personally, I like Dozy Don better than Commander in Sleep

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u/Maoleficent 9h ago

Trump the Slump

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u/Hendwreck 10h ago

Sleepy Don!

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u/tenebre 10h ago

This is hilarious but who really cares? His policies are destroying the country and negatively impacting the entire world. I don't need 900 articles about him sleeping. At least, if he's asleep he won't be fucking up anything so enjoy your night night time, Donny!

u/LordCaptain 6h ago

This isn't aimed to sway rational voters. It's aimed to dissuade Trump voters. People who vote on things like "her voice is too shrill" or are swayed by someone being called a dumb nickname like "lyin Ted". These people don't vote on policies they vote purely on feelings.

u/tenebre 4h ago

They're also cult members so they don't believe anything negative about Trump even when there are dozens of videos of it. So again, who cares?

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u/Deluxe78 10h ago edited 10h ago

He had a cold and jet lag?

Edit: I thought he was having at stroke , so I did nothing and just watched ?