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We’ve gone from Sleepy Joe Biden to Dozy Donald Trump – I know which is more dangerous 86%
By Jon Sopel0%
6/13/2026, 11:09:45 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 39 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Anecdotal, and Availability Heuristic, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 61.4% saturation with 538 hits. Analysis detected 3,431 faulty-reasoning hits from 876 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 78.4% and a BS Rank of 86% (3,082 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.90% of the article peer group.
I am not sure whether the algorithm on Instagram has spotted a predilection that I was unaware I even had, but I keep getting sent reels of a sleeping Donald Trump: dozing off at Madison Square Garden when he’s attending the NBA play-offs; having a quick forty winks at some top table; or even having a little nap during a cabinet meeting, while one of his lapdogs burbles out some sycophantic nonsense to please his sleepy master.
Forget Sleepy Joe, we now have Dozy Don.
And for goodness sake, who can begrudge someone about to turn 80 a little afternoon nap?
Problem is if it was some kindly great-uncle who’s just come back from the golf club and falls asleep during Escape to the Country, then fine.
But it’s not.
It’s the leader of the free world who can’t seem to keep awake while bits of the world burn.
When sleepy Joe Biden left office last year, he was the oldest president in American history; when (if!)
Donald Trump leaves the White House in January 2029 he will have broken that record.
Bravo Donald.
But are these records to be celebrated?
Look at the state of Joe Biden when he shuffled away from power.
In fact, look at the state of Joe Biden in that CNN debate when he quite patently wasn’t all there.
Just as America has the 22nd Amendment, which determines that a president can only serve two terms, is there a need for another that says no president shall serve over the age of 80?
I realise there is a risk of sounding ageist here.
Look at Sir David Attenborough, still a total, bloody marvel at 100.
But – and I don’t wish to demean anything that our greatest living Englishman does – describing how a couple of tree frogs cop off with each other is not quite the same as having your finger on the nuclear button, and deciding on an apparent whim to send the world’s most powerful armed forces into war with Iran, seemingly oblivious of what the strategic dangers might be.
Donald Trump’s rejoinder to this is “look how I’ve aced my latest medical”.
And indeed his doctor, Dr Sean Barbabella, wrote after the May examination that Trump “remains in excellent health, demonstrating strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological and overall physical function”.
And let me say this gently: Donald Trump’s medical records have a history of looking as though they were written by him.
When Trump first ran for the presidency, back in 2016, a medical report was released by his then physician, Harold N Bornstein, which had as a final paragraph: “If elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Now, does that sound as though it was written by a doctor, or by a patient who is rather fond of superlatives?
So I think we can take with a pinch of salt what we are being told, particularly by the president himself, about the state of his health.
Sometimes we just have to use the evidence of our own eyes to see what is going on.
When Trump was posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, over Easter about how “a whole civilisation will die tonight” unless Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz, was that normal to be threatening genocide?
To date, CNN has counted that there are now 37 occasions when Donald Trump has claimed that the war in Iran will be resolved in the next day or two.
There was the evening last month when the president went on a wild posting spree with over 50 messages put up on his platform in the space of three hours.
One alleged that Barack Obama was plotting a coup against him, that he was the most “demonic force in American politics”.
And on and on it went: the 2020 election was stolen from him, supreme court justices had let him down, he raged at The New York Times, random state governors, there were aliens on the moon.
OK, that last bit I’ve made up, but there was a strong element that this was a stream of grievance consciousness, from a man who was fulminating uncontrollably.
This week, Politico is reporting that Trump again is in an absolute funk and raging at all his staff.
There has been a slew of setbacks: pet projects are being held up in Congress; candidates he’s backed have been rejected; funding hasn’t been approved for his beloved ballroom.
And, goddamn it, a court has ruled that the Kennedy Centre cannot be renamed the Trump Kennedy Centre.
Politico quotes a White House staffer thus: “He’s pissed and people are not recognising the level of pissed that he is… he does not like being put in a box.
When you put him in a box, then Trump’s going to blow the box up.”
I should say that when Americans use the word “pissed”, they mean “pissed off”, not drunk.
Donald Trump is teetotal, but can you imagine if he wasn’t, and he really was that kind of pissed?
It doesn’t bear thinking about.
Happy 80th birthday, Mr President.
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