Trump sparks fresh fears he secretly suffered a stroke - BERITAJA

A caller image appeared to show 1 broadside of Donald Trump‘s look drooping during a maternal healthcare arena astatine the White House, prompting interest online and renewed calls questioning his fittingness for office.

The president besides appeared to naughty awake aft cameras caught him seemingly nodding disconnected during the event, which focused connected maternal wellness initiatives and support for motherhood. As Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed what he called a “fertility crisis,” Trump appeared disengaged.

In consequence to the backlash, a White House spokesperson pointed to an earlier station connected X that read, “He was blinking, you absolute moron.”

Social media guidance quickly followed. Left-wing governmental commentator Harry Sisson wrote connected X, “Trump fell dormant pinch his look drooping successful the Oval Office during a gathering today. This is simply a existent video that should interest each American. He’s not fresh to serve.” 

Trump fell dormant pinch his look drooping successful the Oval Office during a gathering today. This is simply a existent video that should interest each American. He’s not fresh to serve. pic.twitter.com/mNBEC9urnN

— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) May 11, 2026

Another X user, Larry Boorstein, wrote, “Donald Trump’s sleeping connected the occupation again. Trump needs to beryllium sent to a nursing location wherever he could get immoderate superior shuteye. Congress needs to name a assemblage to state Trump incapable to discharge the duties of the Presidency and region him from office.”

When the drooping first went viral

The Oval Office incident was not the first clip Trump’s quality sparked wellness concerns. During a 9/11 commemoration arena attended by Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, videos circulated online appearing to show 1 broadside of the president’s look drooping. The clips fueled speculation that the 79-year-old president whitethorn person suffered a stroke, though the White House ne'er confirmed immoderate specified diagnosis.

One X personification wrote, “Definitely has pronounced drooping connected the correct broadside of look and mouth, emblematic of a aesculapian condition. Fox News blurred retired the backmost of his correct manus which is covered successful makeup.”

Another posted, “Just watching Trump astatine the Pentagon. His rima is slanted — looks very for illustration he had a stroke.” 

A 3rd added: “Watching the 9/11 memorial and seeing Trump. Why is the correct broadside of his rima truthful droopy.”

Policy advisor and investigative journalist Adam Cochran shared a clip of Trump and wrote: “At what constituent are we going to hint successful to the President’s stroke?”

Ben Meiselas besides weighed in, saying Trump “looked perfectly atrocious during his attendance astatine a 9/11 ceremonial astatine the Pentagon” because his look “was very droopy” and that he “seemed addled, for illustration he didn’t moreover cognize wherever he was.”

Doctor lays retired lines of grounds for a hidden stroke

The about elaborate aesculapian claims came from Professor Bruce Davidson of Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine successful January 2026.

Speaking to biographer Sidney Blumenthal and Princeton historiographer Sean Wilentz connected The Court of History podcast, Davidson said, “My belief is that President Trump has had a stroke, and I deliberation there’s respective lines of grounds supporting that. I deliberation his changeable was connected the near broadside of the brain, which controls the correct broadside of the body.” He estimated the arena whitethorn person happened “six months agone aliases more, earlier successful 2025.”

Davidson pointed to respective observations, including videos of Trump shuffling his feet, holding his correct manus pinch his left, garbling words earlier successful 2025, and what he described arsenic episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness.

“The aesculapian term, hypersomnolence — which is characteristic of galore patients aft they’ve had a stroke,” Davidson said.

He besides cited footage of Trump descending the steps of Air Force One while gripping the railing pinch his near manus contempt being right-handed. “All of this is accordant pinch having had a changeable connected the near broadside of his brain,” he said.

The aspirin dose that a expert says proves a stroke

In a abstracted quality connected The Daily Beast Podcast successful January 2026, Davidson focused connected Trump’s reported aspirin intake.

“I publication the study that he was taking 325mg of aspirin, and that is only recommended for group who’ve had a changeable to forestall a 2nd changeable from a partially blocked artery,” Davidson told big Joanna Coles. “When I publication that, I said, well, he’s had a stroke, and he’s taking the correct medication.”

Davidson added, “The American Heart Association’s 2021 changeable guidelines urge a afloat 325mg aspirin pill to forestall recurrent stroke, aft a stroke. It is not recommended for superior changeable prevention, bosom disease, peripheral arterial disease, venous insufficiency aliases different venous illness — only for ample intracranial alloy partial occlusion, aft a stroke.”

He stressed that suffering a changeable should not automatically disqualify Trump from agency but said the president should person due aesculapian attention.

White House denials

Despite ongoing speculation, the White House has many times denied claims that Trump suffered a stroke. After inquiries pursuing the Pentagon ceremony, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers called the proposal ridiculous and said “the reply is perfectly not.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt besides dismissed the allegations successful January 2026, saying, “As the President’s physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, has made clear clip and again — and arsenic the American group spot pinch their ain eyes each azygous time — President Trump remains successful fantabulous wide health.”

She added, “Pushing these clone and hopeless narratives now about President Trump is why Americans’ spot successful the media conscionable fell to a caller all-time low.”

Leavitt besides confirmed Trump underwent a “comprehensive exam” that included vascular testing. According to the White House, doctors identified a chronic vein condition, but nary awesome wellness concerns.