Dr. Vin Gupta
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with this type of frequency.
It doesn't make any sense.
It's a scrappy, crude screening tool to assess cognitive function.
It barely screens for early signs of dementia.
It is not a great screening tool to understand whether or not, or an assessment tool to understand whether or not you have the executive functioning capabilities to be the president of the United States.
He keeps doing it because I think he understands at minimum that it's an easy test to pass and therefore it's some sort of flex that he's okay.
It's not answering the questions that serious people have about his clear decline and his mental status.
Number three, I would just say that, you know, we talk a lot about him being sleepy in these Oval Office meetings, whether he has a healthcare executive or whether he has the Department of Interior behind his seat, behind the Resolute Desk.
He was just sleeping, very clearly falling asleep for periods of time.
Even if the White House wants to deny it, it's obvious.
I'll say this as a pulmonologist.
I worry.
I mean, we need to understand why somebody so sleepy for multiple periods of time throughout the daytime hours.
That's not normal.
That is not a normal, oh, they're just 80 years old.
That's okay to fall asleep in the middle of the day.
No, usually there's an explanation for that.
And so what is the explanation?
They like to parry it away that he's, you know, the chief executive of the country, and therefore that explains that away.
I'm not so sure that does.