Independent journalist Justin Glawe flagged a telling remark from Secretary of State Marco Rubio made this week, one seemingly made to compliment President Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities – but ended up making “the opposite point,” Glawe wrote in an analysis published Saturday on his Substack.
Testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio was pressed on whether he’d ever witnessed Trump falling asleep during a Cabinet meeting. Rubio said he had never seen the president doze off, and that “on the contrary, the guy doesn’t sleep, which is a big problem.”
“Rubio was trying to make the point that President Trump is a dynamo – a near-superhuman leader who works deep into the night on the complex issues facing the nation and world,” Glawe wrote.
“But Rubio inadvertently made the opposite point: Trump’s lack of sleep, evidenced by his frequently manic, late night Truth Social posting sessions, is a problem for the president’s clearly declining mental and physical abilities. The signs of this decline are available for anyone who chooses to see them.”
Trump’s physical health has been called into question after the president has been observed with swollen ankles, bruising on his hands, a rash on his neck and appearing to doze off during meetings. His mental health has equally been called into question as Trump nears his 80th birthday this month.
The state of Trump’s cognitive abilities has also, according to Glawe, reached a point where it’s become a legitimate threat to the United States’ national security.
“No one in the Trump administration has offered a remotely plausible explanation for Trump’s physical ailments, and any questions about his clear cognitive challenges – the reading flubs, the obvious confusion, the strange slurring, forgetting what he was talking about, flitting from one subject to another for seemingly no reason – are met by the White House with disdain, denial, mockery, and lies,” Glawe wrote.
“Anyone questioning why the US can’t seem to find a resolution to Trump’s war in Iran, rising healthcare costs, inflation, and so much else that plagues the nation has to look no further than the president himself for the answer. If you don’t believe us, spend a few days listening to him and reading his Truth Social feed. Doing so will make the primary cause of our troubles undeniably obvious.”