While I have saved this for later distribution, it looks more like he's checking his phone. Either way, he's not paying attention.
He's obviously looking at his phone. This isn't the burn the meme makes it out to be.
The real fucked up shit is the world's richest man addressing the Cabinet. In a fucking baseball hat.
Yes, outrage farming misinformation doesn't belong here (or anywhere).
Engage with reality, don't cheer on lies because they're lies that you like.
It should be pretty obvious the kind of damage that can be caused by people living in alternative-fact-based realities.
The optics of Musk addressing the room while Trump is disengaged are bad enough without simply making up things that are not there.
"Why is Elon Musk acting as the leader while Trump is disengaged" is a hard question for a reasonable person to deal with.
Saying "lol look at Trump sleeping" when that's obviously not what is happening, makes you come off as unserious and casts doubt on anything you say in the future.
Spreading misleading lies is not the way to engage with the world. (To those of you that are people and not disinformation bots/agents)
How is it obvious that he isn't sleeping? He looks like he's sleeping. Without the caption I would assume he's sleeping as well.
His hands are very close together, he's looking between his hands and we know Trump is a social media junkie.
Without the caption you would assume he's sleeping because someone probably flipped through hundreds of frames of video to find the shot that looked the worst so they could post about it.
Trump, if you're to believe the rumors, uses stimulants and drinks a lot of caffeinated soda. He's not falling asleep in the middle of the day.
It's worse, he's letting an unelected man, the richest man in the world, who paid for his campaign, act as the leader while he reads Twitter.
Him merely being asleep would be preferable over Musk being in the room. Incompetent and lazy leadership by Trump would be vastly better than his simply handing the reigns of power to an unelected non-American.
That's the messaging that needs to be happening. All this is going to do is make the blue team laugh and the red team think the blue team is ignorant.
Meanwhile, Elon is taking a chainsaw to our entire government while we're too busy trying to score points on the other team (who are the people we need to be allying with to protect the US).
his eyes are closed too, conservatives try to say hes posting on truth social.
If optics still mattered, I don't think Trump would have won any election, let alone 2.
That's no reason to abandon truth and give in to rampant misinformation.
Why is a) He even in there? b) still wearing that stupid hat?
He is really old, he'll be 79 in june. How many people that are that age, you hear they die, and you're like, "mmhmm, they had a long life." He should be at his country clubs being racist and assaulting women like all the other republicans. Retire, it's just a job man.
What gets me about this photo is how fundamentally unserious the whole scene appears. The body language of nearly everyone, the lack of focus, the shabbiness of it all… just embarrassing. I’ve seen high school clubs looking more competent and serious.
I know this is just an aesthetics thing, but it gets to me. 🤷
The body language just says "we're all here to blow Elon", except for Trump who is allowed to nap after a hard day of golfing.
What you're picking up on is body language and that's not strictly aesthetics. It's sometimes even more important than verbal language.
Body language predates verbal language by literal tens of millions of years so year checks out.
Musk looks like the sandwich trolley guy telling people about the specials.
It's fucking weird that there are people in this comment section acting like Trump is a naughty schoolboy texting his crush under the desk.
He's Trump. If he was shitposting it'd be on the table and any sycophant that had a problem with it would get told to shut up and get him a hamburger.
hamberder*
Yeah, that was kind of a layup.
Unless he's talking to his FSB handler on his second phone and doesn't want anyone to see
https://www.youtube.com/live/OMpL4Hze__4?si=HOc6PlcqlEMp5HN_
I watched the cabinet meeting but never saw him sleeping. If anyone else wants to double check, I would appreciate it as i hated every minute of that idiot circle jerk.
He is checking his phone or playing flappy bird or something when the pic was taken.
playing flappy bird
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
I don't believe you - I believe he's looking at his phone. Show me the video.
yeah super important meetings require some tweeting time while the billionaire who actually runs the show talks.
every teenager knows this
FYI, some of those cabinet members have expressly ordered their agencies to disregard some of m*sks crap. They aren't even all on the same page.
Should I just take your word for it?
There are tons of easily found articles. I saw a bunch regarding the recent email. Here's merely one, and it references the differences and how the cabinet is not all on the same page. I remember seeing some references explicitly to specific cabinet secretaries or top appointed agency officials directing their agency to disregard it. It's interesting.
A Trump administration official said the move led to “some annoyance” among not only top officials, but even some Cabinet secretaries, adding that the secretaries “are in charge of their own agencies and need to conduct their own reviews for where cuts may be needed.”
“The president respects the decisions of his Cabinet secretaries to tell their staff not to respond to that email because they did so out of interest of national security and they don’t want to obviously risk confidential information.”
Meanwhile, those working in the executive office of the president, for example, were told they do not have to respond and are considered exempt from the email.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/politics/elon-musk-cabinet-officials-opm-email/index.html
You can take my word for it. One of my buddies works for the DoD and the order came in on Monday expressly highlighting to NOT respond to the email.
The DoD email was actually signed, unlike the musk intern hr email.
It was brought up literally during that very meeting.
I bet that room smells like rotting corpses and dog shit.
Only if souls have a smell.
Jesus Christ, every single thing to come out of his campaign and mouth was projection. 'Sleepy Joe' my ass. More like drowsy Donny, who's uppers are always wearing off
#dozeydonald
OT, but what do you mean "Sign-in Required" when trying to read the post on bluesky, weren't they supposed to be better than twitter?
This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users.
Huh. I guess that's a feature Bluesky offers. TIL.
It’s a way to dip their toe into being closed off. Right now it’s a “user choice” so some people can slowly build the wall while feeling good about “blocking AI scrapers” (they’ll get around it no problem) or “blocking stalkers” (they’ll get around it no problem) or “blocking [next week’s bogeyman]” and all of a sudden everyone has to make an account to interact with the website but it was oRgAnIc™
I mean, he's obviously just staring at his phone, but if this had been Biden then they'd have been calling him Sleepy Joe in all the headlines. :|
Let's hope the coke and the ketamine are doing their jobs in Muskrat's body and brain.
This is pure bullshit. You can’t just make claims like this. Donald is resting his neck and eyelids from all the ass kicking he is doing. It’s exhausting Making America Great Again while fending off Musk’s attempts to top him every time he tales an impromptu nap.
/s
Hes doing exactly what he wanted to do as president.
He's just diddling his phone, writing some stupid shit in all caps on his stupid social network.
Musk gets him excited. He's jerking off.
Nah, Stormy made it clear that he doesn't have a two-hander, even with tiny hands.
Trump looks like he's powered down
How do we make that permanent?
Gun practice, or find somebody with the flu to cough on him
More likely he twatting or truthing....whatever the term
What is up with the hand of the person on the bottom left corner?
Looks like a right hand gripping the table
Shadow.
Someone trying to flip the table but ultimately failing.
It’s The Penguin
Looks like the start of a round of Mr Thumb
This picture makes me think of the boardroom scene in the movie Dogma.
Dozin' Donnie.
Good example for other migrant workers.
To me this picture says one thing: these reps and the sycophants that surround them were never representing the ppl. They just represent what keeps them, personally, in power.
🌍👨🚀🔫👨🚀
these reps and the sycophants that surround them were never representing the ppl.
This is always true tho.
He's just playing the the mushroom.
You man the acorn in the mud? There's no stem
I hope they can open a window or something
Ugh I don't want to be that guy but this looks maybe AI generated? I can't find a source with reverse image look up either. Does anyone know if this is legit?
I can find it at https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-administration-news-02-26-25/index.html
With the photo credited to, Brian Snyder/Reuters
AI can't do multiple lifelike faces like that.
Maybe if it was "random" people, but the prompting to get trump, Lil Bobby, and Elmo right without contaminating every face with the same look is too much.
If just really high resolution and almost a dogfish lens.
Plus, the lighting in that room probably cost 20k and they've got the brightness turned down so the presidents can nap.
Nice soft lighting helps people do stuff while trump and Biden nap.
Don't forget we're almost a decade into incompetent geriatric empty suits.
The White House probably shares a lot of traits with a nursing home by now.
I can't even get AI to do two separate faces without just getting two people who look like both. Maybe with more advanced tools and whatnot.
Have you tried Yandex reverse search? It’s as good as Bing’s used to be before they made it worse for safety reasons (it found CSAM too often).
Used it, looks a little like the room and tea cups from here: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Trump_Meets_with_the_Prime_Minister_of_the_Netherlands_(48317650976).jpg
Which is does note as the cabinet room
Doesn't reverse image search need to, uh, index sites with the images first?
Bunch of boot lickers dressed like him
50 l 50 he's looking at memory of "that one time with Epstein and those girls", or in a Big Mac coma.
...and if he sleeps is a good thing!! May reduce the damages.
I read the caption first and was not expecting that to be THAT hilarious. Holy shit.
Dim MAGA and the Sycophants.
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