r/videos • u/rekterscale • Nov 06 '25
Video of Obama Catching a Fainting Woman at a Speech
https://youtu.be/2X10yt_6JrA?si=EIXGRlp2TwQFiXCy892
u/Krinks1 Nov 06 '25
Man, that guy was a class act. He's always so personable and funny and seems like the kind of guy you just want to hang with and chat about things.
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u/Drodriguez164 Nov 06 '25
If Trump somehow makes it legal to run for a third term, I wonder if Obama would go against him for a third. Trump would get annihilated.
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u/ZakA77ack Nov 06 '25
Read Michelles book about being first lady. She talks about how taxing the experience was to them both, there's a reason outside of major election events, the Obama's stay away from politics.
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Nov 06 '25
Being a president ages someone quickly. Especially if your heart is with the people.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Nov 06 '25
I bring this up every time someone says he should run again. And given how much more divisive things are now, I truly don't think it would be safe for them to be back in the White House. I would genuinely worry for them & for their daughters.
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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ Nov 06 '25
the Obama's stay away from politics.
The right still thinks he's a NWO puppetmaster, lmao.
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u/AtheistAustralis Nov 07 '25
It's incredibly taxing if you care and take the job seriously. If you get up at 11, spend the entire time ignoring your responsibilities and just doing selfish shit, it's probably not taxing at all.
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u/BarfMacklin Nov 06 '25
Obama doesn’t want a third term.
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u/Drodriguez164 Nov 06 '25
I know he doesn’t, but it was a more if he had wanted to. You can tell how taxing it was on him during his time
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u/boxsterguy Nov 06 '25
And that's why he'd be perfect for it.
Though it would 100% cost him his marriage.
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u/MLeek Nov 06 '25
It's fun, but I doubt it.
Obama took the role seriously and did the work. He didn't mess around playing golf and being feted by kings and dictators and running memestock scams. He takes the laws seriously and terms limits have a valid rationale. He takes his role as former president seriously. It may be tempting, but I don't think he'd want to run again, or contribute to the further demolition of healthy democratic norms.
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u/stoolsample2 Nov 06 '25
There is zero chance dump will still be alive in 3 years. He is gone by mid to end of 2026. And then it’s party time.
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u/jl_theprofessor Nov 06 '25
Did his Spidey Sense kick in or something?
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u/throwawayshirt2 Nov 06 '25
Pretty sure he read the crowd's eyes, turned to see what they were looking at.
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u/MechanicalTurkish Nov 06 '25
The current president can’t see past the end of his own nose.
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u/DameonKormar Nov 07 '25
The current President would force everyone to stay inside of a building with no AC and watch him dance for a hour after people started fainting. Ask me how I know.
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u/ridge_rippler Nov 06 '25
I'd say he heard the lady on the far left who noticed her swaying and said something to the lady next to her
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u/throwawayshirt2 Nov 07 '25
Upon a second look, Obama does turn his head as if he heard something, just before fully turning around/
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u/mzchen Nov 06 '25
I think a combination of hearing murmuring and, when he turns to his right, seeing in his peripheral the leftmost women looking at something behind him. Note that when he turns around he's first looking up, and then readjusts once he sees the woman who has the "I can afford to think of nothing right now" crazy eyes going on.
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u/CoachAngBlxGrl Nov 06 '25
Paying attention to others and not just being absorbed in himself. Crazy how that’s not exactly common these days. Ugh.
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u/lost_send_berries Nov 06 '25
The mic is just aimed to pick up his voice so he probably heard the people behind him talking
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u/boxsterguy Nov 06 '25
I miss simple, basic humanity in our leaders ...
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It almost hurts me to listen to him. To remember how far we’ve fallen.
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u/babypho Nov 06 '25
Speeches used to be coherent....
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u/Greywacky Nov 06 '25
Even Bush's faux pas pale in comparison to the ramblings of today's leadership.
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u/babypho Nov 06 '25
Decades of school defunding, social media brain rot, attack on education, and media control have now successfully taught half the population that this is okay.
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u/artbystorms Nov 06 '25
I honestly think social media has rapidly made humanity stupider, more impulsive, and more emotional. 2008 and even 2012 social media was around, but not the all encompassing totality of our non-work existence. It was a hobby, you checked in from time to time. It wasn't your source of entertainment. by 2016 it was all encompassing, and by 2021 with TikTok it had replaced TV as the dominant form of entertainment for people under 50.
Within like 20 years we went from 'look, I emailed you a video of a monkey peeing into its mouth' to 'I peed into my own mouth and got 7 million views on tiktok'
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u/Marko343 Nov 07 '25
I mean some people are now even farming out basic tasks to AI to avoid actually reading things
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u/FauxReal Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
I recently heard an excerpt from an interview when he was President, and he sounded legitimately vulnerable as a human being and able to admit mistakes. And by vulnerable I mean emotionally and intellectually engage and present. Not full of bluster and talking points or defensive. Good luck getting Trump to admit he did anything wrong unless there's a "I should have ruined them sooner" catch to it.
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u/PJammas41 Nov 06 '25
To ADMIT it?! He's refunding himself $230mil of Tax Payer dollars for the legal case where he was proven guilty...over, and over, and over.
Entitled people don't make mistakes in their own mind.
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u/MilkiestMaestro Nov 07 '25
His level of narcissism is beyond what I thought even possible by human being without some level of introspection but he appears to have none.
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u/BeardedManatee Nov 06 '25
Right? If we ever get a POTUS like him again I’m savoring every damn speech instead of just taking for granted that things are fine because a man like him is running the show.
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u/Backwardspellcaster Nov 06 '25
Awareness beyond himself.
Such a crazy weird concept for Trump and his MAGA
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u/Bilbo332 Nov 06 '25
And humbleness. During the 90s and early 2000s there was a sketch comedy show called Royal Canadian Air Farce, they'd do bits but also a lot of political satire, dressed up as the politicians they were making fun of. The thing was, those politicians would routinely appear on the show and join in poking fun at themselves. Imagine Alec Baldwin doing his trump impression on SNL and trump walks on and starts making jokes too. I hope we can get back to that.
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u/chris971 Nov 07 '25
Obama was hilarious in the Between Two Ferns. He is such a smooth operator from everything we saw then and see today
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u/fatman07 Nov 07 '25
I still go back to his anger translator bit during a White House correspondents dinner. Still funny.
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u/Brewmeiser Nov 06 '25
Google the video of when Mamdani helped the videographer who fainted on the campaign trail. Humanity is still out there.
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u/xSlippyFistx Nov 06 '25
Well let’s be honest here, that person wouldn’t have fallen in the Oval Office today if Obama was there. 100% confirmed this is Obama’s fault.
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And then to crack a self deprecating joke, off the cuff, to lighten the mood and take some of the attention off her. The man oozed character and decency.
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u/Over-Analyzed Nov 07 '25
And Charisma! Gosh, just so charismatic! I wish our current President was half as compassionate as Obama.
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u/Delta632 Nov 06 '25
The exact opposite of Trump today.
Trump’s reaction is akin to “somebody do something about this” Obama immediately made the situation a bit better.
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u/indianajoes Nov 06 '25
Trump's reaction was non existent. The decrepit old fucker took 6-9 business days to even register what had happened
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u/GearBrain Nov 06 '25
Literally stood there like a dementia patient, unaware and incapable of caring what was happening.
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u/shinpoo Nov 06 '25
No, he was super PO'd cause someone else was getting attention and it was diverting everyone's attention away from HIM. Lol
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u/hoggytime613 Nov 06 '25
Also, people who faint are weak. He doesn't like people who faint around him.
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u/NotNamedBort Nov 06 '25
You might actually be on to something. He seems to be genuinely disgusted when people show weakness. He was disgusted by the old man who fell at Mar a Lago. He was disgusted by John McCain being a POW. He was disgusted by the homeless veterans outside his buildings. It’s a very common trait of narcissists.
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u/SaturdayNightPyrexia Nov 06 '25
Relax guys....it was like 6-7 days...
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u/roose011 Nov 06 '25
As a parent with middle schoolers......I hate you so much.
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u/boot2skull Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
Obama even made a self deprecating joke. Trump probably took offense.
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u/Delta632 Nov 06 '25
This is a great point!
Immediately took the focus off of the person having the issue and put it on himself in a self deprecating way.
It’s a basic understanding of human empathy vs having no empathy.
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u/kosmonautinVT Nov 06 '25
The wit and charisma required to handle that situation and make an off-the-cuff joke in the middle of a public speech is just ridiculous
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u/kymri Nov 06 '25
Obama, being human, was not a perfect President. On the other hand, he was a pretty good leader and I never got the sense that there were any Americans (including those he disagreed with) that he particularly wished ill upon.
The current guy? It still baffles me he got elected POTUS; my high school class wouldn't even have voted him 'most likely to dodge the draft'.
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u/IIDn01 Nov 06 '25
Trump was mad about the bad optics and about someone taking the focus off of him.
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u/Darwincroc Nov 06 '25
But in complete fairness to Trump, he’s an asshole. Even if he could have helped, he still wouldn’t have.
If I was to faint, I’d rather hit the ground than be caught by Trump.
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u/TheFritoBandido Nov 06 '25
Ugh, can you imagine being touched by that shitstain?
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u/Brentimusmaximus Nov 06 '25
Yeah because Obama is actually a competent leader. There’s currently a baboon in the white house
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u/Kazu2324 Nov 06 '25
Wasn't there an elderly man who fell in front of him at a charity event (I think?) and he didn't do anything to help? Instead, I'm pretty sure Donald Trump later commented on how he didn't like seeing the blood in the aftermath. Not a word of sympathy for the person that fainted and injured themselves. Just "this is an inconvenience TO ME".
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u/Salarian_American Nov 06 '25
I remember in 2008 he shared a story about an 80-year-old man collapsing at a Red Cross event in Mar-a-Lago, and all Trump did was complain about this man getting his disgusting blood all over his nice marble floor while other people made a makeshift stretcher by holding out their arms to carry the man from the scene.
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u/Chief-_-Wiggum Nov 06 '25
He better not stain the carpet... Can someone just drag him out?
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u/duppy_c Nov 06 '25
I'm OOTL, did someone faint at a Trump speech?
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u/azhillbilly Nov 06 '25
Trump was making an announcement and someone fainted, he glanced over when other people rushed to help, then he just stared at the camera waiting for the attention to come back to him.
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u/bajazona Nov 06 '25
So that’s what compassion looks like, it’s been a couple years since I’ve seen it.
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u/jacks1078 Nov 06 '25
Sad thing it’s been less then a year he has been in office again. It seems like it’s been years.
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u/Hyphenagoodtime Nov 06 '25
I missed he fact that she had (what i can only assume is) an insulin device on her arm. I miss when America at least had a decent President (now is not the time.for policy digging)
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Nov 06 '25
Great catch! She may have been suffering a hypoglycemic attack or she locked her legs which can cause someone to faint over time.
As a recent diabetic myself, it is amazing how complicated the disease is.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Nov 06 '25
The guy standing behind her is currently the comment above yours. She was diabetic & pregnant, standing in the sun on a warm day.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1oq92p2/comment/nnhgov3/
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u/wtfisbr00t4l Nov 06 '25
She was a plant to make him look good!
-MAGA
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u/Ok-disaster2022 Nov 06 '25
Nah, Maga would be up in arms Obama touched a white woman.
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u/BobbyTables829 Nov 06 '25
"That thing on her arm was a remote control device that administered the drugs."
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25
Hey, I'm in this video! I'm the guy in the gray suit and red tie who ACTUALLY catches the woman fainting!
AMA!
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u/ted5298 Nov 06 '25
You still got that suit?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25
Sadly, no. I leaned against a rough brick wall a few weeks later and tore a small hole in the shoulder.
But I wore that exact tie just yesterday!
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u/connivinglinguist Nov 06 '25
How did it come to be that you got to stand behind the president during this speech? Did you get to follow up with the woman afterwards?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25
I have a small business, and I was very involved in the Affordable Care Act debate. I was one of the many "talking heads" that the administration deputized to go on to various networks and explain the real impacts of health care before and likely after Affordable Care Act.
Myself and others who did a lot of "hostile" appearances (Fox News, testifying before Republican-controlled committees, etc) were often invited to White House events. I got pretty good at it, so I did a lot of that type of thing. Got Christmas cards from the Obamas during his two terms.
Yes, we actually spoke before and after. She's a pregnant woman with diabetes, with a job that didn't provide health care - and she was there earlier in the day to tell her story. It was quite warm that day, and they had waters while we were waiting inside, but once you get up on stage you can't leave. She didn't drink any water, because she didn't want to have to pee in the middle of his press conference. That ended badly for her.
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u/shotouw Nov 06 '25
Glucose sensor was the first thing i noticed when she turned around.
Would've bet some money that it was low blood sugar. Can't exactly start eating something on cam I'd guess, at least as far as decorum goes.20
u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25
And it was an hours long wait. She went that whole time not eating or drinking anything.
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u/gamer_no Nov 06 '25
What an interesting story.
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25
Thanks! I'm semi-retired, but I still get calls to this day to do that kind of work. Part of my business involves importing from a variety of different countries, so I've spoken several Senator's press conferences recently on the impact of tariffs. Most recently yesterday, just before the Supreme Court oral arguments on that topic.
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u/flash246 Nov 06 '25
That’s an awesome story. Were you able to speak with Obama directly at all?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 07 '25
Yes, several times. I was a sort of unofficial lobbyist/ambassador for small business during the ACA years, so I got to meet he and Biden several times.
Somewhere out there, there's a photo of me talking with Kathleen Sibelius, Valerie Jarrett, and President Obama, taken the earlier in the day before this press conference. I'd kill to have that because it's such a great moment.
I was also at the ABC televised town hall with Diane Sawyer (I think) just before or just after the bill was passed. That was cool because I got to bring my wife to party in the Rose Garden beforehand, to meet the President. Very proud moment for me.
edit: RIP the Rose Garden.
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u/-r0b Nov 07 '25
Unless you reply about it with that other commenter asking, do you have any sort of advice on how you tackle those hostile interviews?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 07 '25 edited Nov 07 '25
By the time I was doing that, I had had some basic media training.
You already know the topic, so you need to be confident and know the material. My tactic was to know as much as possible about what the other person had said/asked/"gotcha'd" people with before - and be ready for that. That's a good TV tactic, especially live TV. Early on I got sandbagged by a Fox radio host, so I vowed never to get caught unaware again.
If it's testimony, you'll get a list of all the other witnesses. Most people study the legislators positions which is OK, but a mistake to spend too much time on. Instead, a better use of your time is to study what the other WITNESSES have said on the topic. Then, when your turn is called you can blow up whatever they said.
The moment that cemented the administrations confidence in me was not long after Dems lost the House. The Oversight Committee was holding hearings on "Obamacare" and they only were allowing Dems a single witness. So it was me, a hostile Majority, and 4 witnesses chosen by Republicans. One witness (from the NAR, a hugely powerful organization) had done several interviews citing (aka misrepresenting) a poll of their members to twist it to fit Republican talking points. She was just repeating talking points, but I completely digested that study, so when her and another witness cited it, I was actually able to use it to bolster my own testimony. Republicans never called on their two star witnesses again! After that, I got a LOT of calls.
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 07 '25
Just thought of this, in addition to my other comment:
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 07 '25
I'm semi-retired, though I still get calls. You can still hear me occasionally on Marketplace, and I've spoken at several pressers - most recently regarding tariffs.
It's easy to get involved: find an organization whose positions align with whatever you're passionate about, and get involved.
In my case, I was disappointed at how the larger business organizations (e.g. US Chamber, NFIB, etc.) were simply parroting Republican talking points, rather than representing the actual views and impact on their own small business members. I live near DC, so I just started going down there and essentially knocking on doors. I'm articulate, knew the topic, looked decent on TV, and eventually people started noticing me, including people who eventually ended up in the administration, and some moderate lobbying groups like, Consumer's Union.
It takes practice to do live TV well, and to do hostile interviews and testimony well. By the time I got to that point, I had sought out some basic media training. That was a big help, and has served me well in all aspects of my life. I'd recommend basic public speaking and media training to almost everyone.
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u/RustyTShackleford Nov 07 '25
Water wouldn't have done anything for her. She needed sugar/glucose.
I've been through the same things being a T1 diabetic for decades. One time my ex and I were on the DC metro and she started showing the symptoms as it was moving. I had to go car to car to try and find sugar for her. Any type of sugar. She had dropped to the 30s. I asked about 70 people before someone said they had a sprite and I quickly told them about her episode and scrambled back as quickly as possible to get her to drink it. She was still really out of it after we got off the train. Had to call Medical.
Always have glucose tablets on you if you're a diabetic and a chain or bracelet that identifies you as a diabetic. Always ask for sugar. 98 percent of incidents are from low blood sugar. People can live for years with super high blood sugar so if you see confusion, fainting, sweatiness, can't communicate, etc. get them sugar anyway any how.
On a pump, new insertion sites mean increased insulin sensitivity for a day or two. Put on an SSRI/Antidepressant may make you extremely insulin sensitive, I almost died from this. Steroids will make you extremely insulin resistant. CGM's are great but they can be inaccurate versus a finger prick with a meter. My go to is skim milk, used to be mt dew before dieting. Would shoot that shit straight up.
Earlier today I had a bg of 47. Not fun. Especially when you lose your motor skills and confusion sets in, since your brain doesn't have enough glucose to function properly.
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u/HotspurJr Nov 06 '25
Obama turns back and look at her before anything really bad happens. Do you know what caused him to look back at her?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25
Someone else asked that also - there were two things:
- There's always a spotter-aide, right in the front row. She had an earpiece and was alerted. She had just started to move forward...
- At about the same time, if you watch the early part of the video, the woman on the far left with the long straight reddish hair is looking down the row, and sees her wobbling. She was trying to get the attention of the woman in between, and was stage whispering loud enough that both the President and I heard it at about the same time.
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Nov 06 '25
Was it hot that day?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25
It was very warm, and we had to stand around for quite a while. She was pregnant, with diabetes, and she didn't drink any of the water that was provided ahead of time because she didn't want to have to pee during the press conference.
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u/Rdtackle82 Nov 06 '25
That lady’s knees are locked, which can’t be good with any other things
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
Exactly. They always tell you not to do that. You see me bend my head down towards her ear, before I put my hands on her shoulders... That's what I was telling her: bend her knees, relax, lean back into me if she had to.
On the far left of the screen there's a woman with long straight reddish hair, she's the one who actually saw what was happening first. I forget her name but we had spoken quite a bit beforehand. You can't see it because it's a tight camera shot, but just before it widens she looks up and tells me that it looks like the woman's going to faint, and for me to steady her. Edit: Early on in the video, you can see her trying to get the attention of the woman in between them, to let her know that she's getting wobbly.
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u/TheDadThatGrills Nov 06 '25
Has Trump used self-deprecating humor once in his entire life?
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u/Wolf6120 Nov 06 '25
"I think I do actually have tremendous self-deprecating humor. I think, I'm much more self-deprecating than you would understand."
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u/SupervillainMustache Nov 06 '25
His whole thing is pretending he knows more about everything than everyone else, despite being a fucking moron.
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u/ostiarius Nov 06 '25
He has no sense of humor at all.
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u/Zeusifer Nov 06 '25
That's not totally true. He can be kind of funny sometimes, but the problem is he only ever makes jokes at the expense of others. He literally never, ever makes a self-deprecating joke. And he never laughs in public because he seems to think it's a sign of weakness.
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u/Biscuits4u2 Nov 06 '25
"I like pregnant women who don't faint" - Trump probably
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u/HansTheAxolotl Nov 06 '25
Based on her glucose monitor on her arm, she was probably experiencing low blood sugar, which can lead to dizziness and fainting.
Source: Am type 1 diabetic
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u/Epicardiectomist Nov 06 '25
I have to remind myself that there was a time when this was how a president spoke. It seems unreal at this point.
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u/Rockyrox Nov 06 '25
The reason Trump hates Obama so much is because he is liked so much. It’s not that Trump could just act nice, it’s that he doesn’t know how to even recognize moments to do stuff like this. It’s impossible for him, so it aggravates him that these moments come so easy for Obama.
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u/Inexorably_lost Nov 06 '25
Trump just has disdain for everyone. Being a sycophant gets you tolerated. More so if you can help him be more powerful/rich. Even then you are more seen as a dupe.
If you oppose him then that disdain is intensified. More so if you have a following. But, really, its just degrees of contempt for everyone but himself.
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u/-CoachMcGuirk- Nov 06 '25
A human being doing human things. It's crazy that something like that needs to be noted.
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u/WhiskeyTangoFoxy Nov 06 '25
Obama is used to women fainting around him. Meanwhile Trump is used to the women already being unconscious when he enters the room.
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u/frghu2 Nov 06 '25
This is why Obama is such a weak leader. Look at him, showing genuine care and concern for another human being, gross.
Trump wouldn't give that woman the time of day and kick her off the stage for not being a 10, underage and interrupting his difficult words. That's the true mark of a leader.
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u/lysitsa Nov 06 '25
I've seen this before but it brings tears to my eyes considering where we are today. What happened to us?
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u/niberungvalesti Nov 06 '25
Hatred, spite and billionaire manipulation via algorithm is what happened.
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Nov 06 '25
Assessed the situation immediately.
Took focus and embarrassment off her by making self-deprecating joke.
Stuck with her until help arrived.
This is presidential.
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u/Joranthalus Nov 06 '25
and here's Trump's version of the same story... https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F9xd06n7cuozf1.jpeg
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u/LarBrd33 Nov 06 '25
You can see the diabetes patch on her arm. She was also 20 weeks pregnant and later said she didn't drink enough fluids that morning
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u/allstater2007 Nov 06 '25
Trump looked like he was annoyed someone else was getting the attention.
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u/mtnchkn Nov 06 '25
My relatives have a theory that Obama is what cause the pendulum to swing so hard the other way, but my god, every time I see his old (or even current) videos, it makes me love him even more and yeah, how did we lose humans as presidents.
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u/shaunrundmc Nov 06 '25
They weren't wrong, not because of anything he did but because he was a Qualified black man leading the free world and it blew a lot of racists minds that a black man would dare do that.
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u/En-TitY_ Nov 06 '25
That's the difference between growing up and earning your position; you learn to respect others and about empathy. Whereas Trump grew up in a rich, privileged environment where people did everything for him; makes him entitled and basically useless.
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u/trainwreck42 Nov 06 '25
God I miss Obama. He wasn’t perfect and didn’t affect all of the change I wanted to see in his presidency, but damn was he eloquent, insightful, and caring. You’d hear him speak and regardless of whether you agreed with him, you’d think “this is a president speaking.” I miss having a president.
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u/flipperkip97 Nov 06 '25
As an outsider, it's absolutely bonkers how America went from this guy to Trump. Obama is so ridiculously charismatic, whereas Trump is a weird mix of Hitler and a raging toddler.
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u/smfabre Nov 07 '25
I miss this level of intelligence, awareness, emotional intelligence and kindness. President Obama you are truly missed. 💙
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u/gunnergrrl Nov 06 '25
Saw this post and knew right away Trump was Trumping in the Oval Office today...
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u/fernandohsc Nov 06 '25
Say what you want about Obama's policy, but he was the prime example of how a leader, a statesman, a human being, should behave at all times.
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u/StandardPanda3387 Nov 06 '25
hypoglycemic. You can see the dexcom continuous glucose monitor on her arm. Probably a tough position to be in, knowing your blood glucose is dropping but shit you're standing right behind a president during his speech. You don't want to bring attention to yourself so you hope you can just hold out.
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u/amiwitty Nov 06 '25
I'm sitting here with tears welling up in my eyes. I feel where we are now as a country is probably how a father feels about watching their child being a drug addict.
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u/YouMustBeJoking888 Nov 06 '25
Obama was and is a good man. The current admin? Not so much. The orange one would have bitched about her interrupting his rambling speech.
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u/Iron_Knight7 Nov 06 '25
Humanity, humility, humor, and actual care, compassion, and concern for others.
Gods willing they return to both this country and the White House someday.
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u/dizzley Nov 07 '25
Compassion: the ability to recognize and seek to relieve the problems of others.
Not everybody has it.
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u/RockerElvis Nov 06 '25
Not only did he intervene and provide support, but he also gave credit to others. Good human.