Donald Trump's apparent naps in the middle of administration meetings have been explained away with a bizarre claim from a doctor.
Dr. Marc Siegel, a senior medical analyst for Fox News, suggested Trump is actually proving his cognitive endurance and health by napping in meetings. Dr. Siegel compared the 79-year-old president, whose physician touted had "excellent health," to Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb.
But it appears Dr. Siegel confused Edison as the inventor of electricity in his defense of Trump's fatigue, The Daily Beast reported. Dr. Siegel said, "Thomas Edison believed in the 10-minute nap, by the way. We wouldn’t have electricity, right?"
Dr. Siegel went on to suggest Trump was passing cognitive tests "every single day" by being in office. He told Laura Ingraham, "This is a disgrace because we don’t need to see President Trump passing cognitive tests, as you just said he passes one every single day. Every single moment, going in and out of press conferences. I have never seen anything like it, actually."
Ingraham would also defend the president and suggested Trump was merely resting his eyes. She said, "We all know that he doesn’t sleep, you know, I’m not a big sleeper either. So, you know, on occasion, I close my eyes if someone is talking for too long, I admit it. But, big deal. I mean, the results speak for themselves."
"What President Trump does on a daily basis, if you sleep three hours or four hours a night, you’re probably going to close your eyes, whether you are 79 or 49. I don’t think that matters."
Dr. Siegel may say the cognitive tests are not necessary, but a different doctor, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, suggested the MRI scan as a routine health check is "not plausible".
Dr. Reiner said, "There‘s no chance that this was just sort of routine preventative care. First of all, it‘s not part of routine preventative care... They disclosed that he had a chest scan and an abdominal scan."
"The president‘s doctor didn‘t even disclose what kind of scan. The president said MRI, all that the president‘s physician said was advanced imaging. Did he have an MRI? Did he have a CT? Did he have both?"
"And what he didn‘t say is whether the president had a scan of his brain. He didn‘t say he didn’t, he just included some data from the chest and abdominal scans. So it‘s not plausible or really credible to believe that they just decided to do some preventative screening for a third time this year."