"... even if he doesn’t. Donald Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles starts early and stays on until early to mid-evening. Then it’s over to her deputy Dan Scavino, a true Trump old-timer — they met when 16-year-old Scavino was selected to caddie for him — to do the graveyard shift.... [T]he shifts are about being around to help, aid and occasionally advise, rather than blocking. Still, journalists and lobbyists study Trump’s schedule for when best to try to get him alone. A former aide says the best times to call are first thing in the morning or late evening, but he’s such a night owl that some enterprising hacks have got through at 3am. In the morning, his team wakes and checks Truth Social for what Trump has posted — often a mix of AI memes, criticism of his enemies or his latest views on a war — and any likely fallout. His record is 160 posts in one night. Some come via his adviser Natalie Harp, nicknamed the 'Human Printer' for giving the president stacks of positive press cuttings, others from the man himself...."
Writes Katie Balls, in
"Donald Trump at 80: is refusing to act his age his secret weapon?/The president is still known to work 12-hour days and post all night as he enters his ninth decade" (London Times).
I wondered if there are some kind of barracks or hotel-like areas in the White House. I think not. That means Susie and Dan are most likely curling up on a sofa in their office. How old is Susie Wiles? Isn't it dangerous to be this sleep deprived? But Trump sets the tone, and he seems to be all about conquering sleep, the thief of life.
Genuine Trump quote: "You know, I’m not a big sleeper. I like three hours, four hours. I toss, I turn, I beep-de-beep, I want to find out what’s going on."
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That’s amusing, one second Trump is more feeble and brain addled then Biden the next second he’s a defiant loon for refusing to ‘act his age’. What reflecting pool algae bloom
I guess the California Democrats chose a strategy on how to deal with Spencer Pratt- just end his campaign this week.
Sleep plays a crucial role in clearing toxic waste such as proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease from the brain, and smartwatch data could help warn of problems, according to a new scientific review. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aeg2276
“For decades, we thought about sleep primarily in terms of memory and restoration,” said Maiken Nedergaard, “What is emerging now is the idea that sleep is also a highly organized fluid-transport state that helps maintain brain health. Sleep serves many functions, but I believe brain clearance may be the most fundamental of all.”
Anyone who tells you that sleep can wait until they have died is a dangerous person to be near. Lose them as fast as you can.
It's amazing Trump, who famously sleeps very little (unless you count falling asleep in his chair like Robert Mugabe) made it as long as he did. You had a good run, Donald Trump, but it looks like Alzheimer's has finally caught you.
Why We Sleep ~ Mathew Walker
This book changed my life. If you have not read it or listened to it (I recommend both) then absolutely put it on your 2026 list.It is exceptional, speaks of the evolution of sleep and how dangerous this absolutely ridiculous culture is of “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”
He also is interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast. As is usually the case -- Rogan introduced me to another interesting guest. The insight by Matthew Walker again is amazing.
Susie Wiles just turned 69. But she takes the dayshift, doesn't she? (Though a long day, perhaps.)
I don't care who you, sleep deprivation is problematic especially when you get older. But people are who they are. This is really an area where you can't "make" anyone do anything about it. If they don't value sleep, they don't.
Yancey Ward said...
It wont work though. They might stop him in LA but the movement he started will have knock on effects for years.
The pendulum in California swings. It is an economy propped up by illegal immigration and nanny state theft. All real businesses that produce things are leaving.
It may be the last holdout in 2029 when the immigration sweeps are rolling but as soon as it is just citizens and paper ballots California turns red.
We, up close and personal, saw the effects of sleep deprivation, sleep disorders, and plain old sleep contempt (as in, I'll sleep when I'm dead etc.) in older parents. It really did cause a lot of issues and exacerbated others.
I've been trying very hard to reverse this sort of thing in myself for quite a long while now, with some success but a way to go. I started taking it seriously due to caring for the older generation.
Interestingly, my FIL (the only parent left) who is well into his dementia now in his mid '80s but has battling it for a long while, actually sleeps on a regular schedule, in his bed, and for a reasonable amount of time at night. It's a marked change, and unfortunately it didn't come sooner. But it is what it is.
Regards,
Lori (reader_iam)
Famous short sleepers:
Churchill
Thatcher
Einstein
Tesla
Uh oh.
HITLER!!!
I suspect 'enough sleep' has a bell-curve distribution from people like Trump (and one of my best friends/roommates) to myself, who needs nine or ten hours in bed to get a good seven or eight hours of sleep.
My friend was a fine guitar player who played nights and weekends and worked all day in mundane jobs. He would burn the candle at both ends for weeks, then crash and sleep for 20 hours or more every few weeks.
I can't have any fun or do anything well if I force myself not to sleep, and have never understood how others can.
One disastrous blunder can erase a lot of good work.
“By 1927, Coolidge worked no more than about four and a half hours a day—“a far lighter schedule than most other presidents, indeed most other people, have followed,” as the political scientist Robert E. Gilbert once observed—and napped much of the rest of the time. “No other President in my time,” recalled the White House usher, “ever slept so much.” When not napping, he often sat with his feet in an open desk drawer (a lifelong habit) and counted cars passing on Pennsylvania Avenue.”
My kind of president! First, do no harm!
Napoleon was said to need little sleep, but in reality he had the happy ability to get refreshing sleep in short periods at almost any time.
I'm not so sure Hitler should be called a short-sleeper. He liked to stay up late and sleep late.
"rarely sleeps"?! He nods off all the time during meetings.
Was not Hamlet also light sleeper
If only Trump combined short sleep with longer fasts!!
No sleep but still sharper than those who can’t recognize crooked elections and crooked media!!
And Joe blow Biden did what???
Napoleon was also a short-sleeper. I'm certainly not one. I once slept for 20 hours after two days of non-stop effort on a project.
The hardest-working president since Teddy Roosevelt. Who produces world-changing GOOD things and who LOVES America and the American people. The Left can just fuck off.
Trump inhabits a culture which views sleep as weakness.
I inhabit one which would views his bizarre appearance, screaming insecurity and utter incoherence and inarticulacy as weaknesses. At least some of that must be related to lack of sleep.
A couple of other points are that old people always sleep less and does Trump actually do any work?
From what I can see he spends most of his time on social media and then massively underperforms when made to do the real parts of the job.
If Trump is missing sleep it’s not because he’s sweating over stacks of paper like Churchill, Thatcher or Einstein. It’ll be because he’s watching Fox, scrolling on social media or just laying awake, haunted by the ghosts of former Presidents, stressing about how unsuited he is for his job.
i'm out of touch..
i thought Sundays were one of the days where they tell us that Trump is TOO OLD to be President (or is maybe already dead?)
help me!
which days are: Trump Too Old to work?
and which days are: Trump works Too Hard?
"The hardest-working president since Teddy Roosevelt. Who produces world-changing GOOD things and who LOVES America and the American people."
And everyone else can just F off...
The people that follow Trump hear a different version of the world reported to them in their mega churches and through Fox News, OAN, Newsmax. Much of it is partisan propaganda and the narrative is that there is this scary bizarro world out there and Trump is leading the fight against it.
Gerrymandering, unlimited donations to superpacs, social media has increased polarization in our society.
I don’t know what it takes to reset this but I hope it happens. Our country and the world had a lot of issues to tackle and neither side seems particularly capable. It’s discouraging to me that Democrats seem outfoxed at every turn and they don’t seem to have any new ideas.
I think there are a lot of issues Americans can agree on and I hope this can again become a focus for our society. What unites us.
Trump sleeps in the Oval Office hanging upside-down like Grandpa on the Munsters.
Or like matt murdock in daredevil
Americans spending $400 million more today on gasoline than a year ago.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
Trump inhabits a culture which views sleep as weakness.
I inhabit one which would views his bizarre appearance, screaming insecurity and utter incoherence and inarticulacy as weaknesses. At least some of that must be related to lack of sleep.
Whenever you look to the right on the IQ curve you can see about 20 points. Everything past that seems like insanity.
You are a retard and you justify Trump's actions as incoherence because he is at least 40 IQ to the right of you.
You are constantly wrong about everything and it never deters you from saying stupid things that turn out to be wrong.
You are just a really stupid person.
imTay said...
One disastrous blunder can erase a lot of good work.
Remember when Tim thought COVID was going to kill everyone if we didn't hide in our houses and called people who disagreed with him murderers?
You really need to look in the mirror. You did the same thing when Trump took out Maduro. You will look just as stupid in 6 months on Iran.
He is unlike any person we're likely to see again as President in any of our lifetimes. I think more people should sit back and enjoy the ride, instead of making themselves crazy with hate for the guy. If he had run as a Democrat, they'd all love him. How do I know that?
You need only look at their love for Graham Platner. They'll love anything with a 'D' next to its name.
I just happen to be reading "Why We Sleep -- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams," by Matthew Walker, Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley. I think some of Trump's behaviors can be traced to him not getting enough sleep. 3 or 4 hours is just not enough.
If this was something new I might worry but apparently president Trump sleep patterns are about the same as they've been all his adult life.
it's never seemed to hurt him before why would we think it would hurt him now?
John Henry
Joe didn't get much sleep either.
His lovely wife somehow felt the need to share with us the fact that Joe was getting up seven times a night to pee.
I was a caregiver for a dementia patient for a few years and it never would have crossed my mind to blurt out intimate examples of Mom's decline to a reporter.
In the interview with Navarro she talks about Joe like he's already dead and can't see or hear what she's saying.
Two awful people who deserve each other.
"why would we think it would hurt him now?"
For the left, it's wishful thinking. Since they've been unsuccessful so far in their attempts to kill him, hurting him is the next best option and they've got to have *some* dream to hold on to.
Hillary said she was ready to take the 3AM phone call.
Trump makes 3AM phone calls.
CC, JSM
PS: Biden says "What'd you call me at 3 AM for?!" when it's really 11:45, but he's already called the lid. - jsm
PPS: Obama has no problem with 3AM phone calls, because it's 10AM Kenya time. CC, JSM
it's never seemed to hurt him before why would we think it would hurt him now?
Because he will be 80 years old in a couple of weeks?
More seriously, isn't it still commonly accepted that you need less sleep the older you get? And then there's the whole first/second sleep thing the Prof likes to write about.
Also, there's a pretty common phenomenon of not being able to sleep well in a strange location. Trump certainly does not view the WH as 'home,' and he spends as much time at Mar-a-Lago and his other residences as he possibly can. So he may find himself staring at the ceiling in the Executive Residence at night.
Finally, the POTUS, who either lives in her workplace or takes her workplace (AF1, Mil Aides, etc) with her wherever she goes, has the ultimate work/life balance. All presidents have blended work and private life through the course of the day, whether it's Reagan having dinner with Tip O'Neill, JFK getting BJs from secretaries by the pool, or FDR taking the whole shebang with him to Warm Springs.
Somehow it's only abnormal when Trump does it. CC, JSM
lonejustice said...
I just happen to be reading "Why We Sleep -- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams," by Matthew Walker, Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley. I think some of Trump's behaviors can be traced to him not getting enough sleep. 3 or 4 hours is just not enough.
LOL
Trump is doing much better than you are.
Why would he want to be as stupid and lazy as you?
Freder Frederson said...
it's never seemed to hurt him before why would we think it would hurt him now?
Because he will be 80 years old in a couple of weeks?
And he is still at least 40 IQ to the right of you and gets more work done in a day than you do in a year.
Leftards voted for a candidate who was going to be 80 years old halfway through his first presidential term if he won and were preparing to vote for him again in the next election. Clearly, age isn't an issue for them.
Our two LLR's recommend the same book about sleep deprivation. LOL.
Trump has been losing sleep for 7 decades now. Quite successfully. Pretty soon it's going to catch up with him! Just you wait! Snort.
"Our two LLR's recommend the same book about sleep deprivation."
Who could have seen *that* coming?
Qahveh. Stat.
This gasbag has not been invited in my home on Sunday night for years. Can't say I'll miss what I don't watch. But Scott--don't let the CBS door slam ya on the backside on your way out.
The reason for this post is that Althouse is too young to recall the last time there was a high energy President. I remember stories about a young JFK shaking up a moribund Washington establishment, stories about cabinet officers and staff trying to train themselves to get by on 6 hours of sleep to keep up with the young President.
Except the stories about Kennedy were false. He was so sick with Addison disease and so doped up with feel-good drug cocktails that he may have been less sharp than Joe Brandon.
John Henry
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