Dr. Jonathan Reiner
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first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
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The president has severe daytime somnolence.
He falls asleep very often.
He's fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him, in the Cabinet Room.
And there was concern yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day conservances.
And chronic insomnia is a severe illness.
It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, decrease in cognitive effects in older people.
It's equivalent to about increasing your age by about three and a half years.
It increases your cardiac risk of having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure.
And it can produce a decline in your sort of mental functions, like it could increase depression, anxiety.
So it's a real problem.
And the president appears to struggle to stay awake during the day.
And I'd like to hear what the White House has done to evaluate why the president has this increased daytime somnolence and what they're doing to improve that.
Well, first of all, we've never had an adequate explanation of why the president went to Walter Reed in October for off-cycle testing.
The president's team hates taking the president to Walter Reed, and they only take the president there when there is testing that they need to do that cannot be accomplished at the White House.
The White House has a prodigious capacity to test and treat the president and his team.
So you only go to Walter Reed when you need something like a CAT scan or an MRI scan or some other invasive modality.
And it's never been adequately explained why they took the president there.
His physician later said that he went there for preventative testing, which really makes no sense because it creates the kind of concern and speculation
that occurs when the president in a almost unannounced way goes to Walter Reed for unusual testing.
So I'd like to hear much more of a wholesome explanation from Dr. Barbabella about what that testing showed.
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