CNN’s Jake Tapper interviewed network medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner to discuss concerns he posted on X about President Donald Trump’s health, following Wednesday night’s address to the nation.

JAKE TAPPER: Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as the late vice president, Dick Cheney’s cardiologist for years, was among the many observers alarmed by what he saw from President Trump last night, his behavior. He posted on X quote, “I’m seriously concerned about the health of the president and adding no one should be happy to see the president like this. He looks unwell.” Dr. Reiner joins us now. He’s a professor of medicine and surgery, George Washington University and a CNN medical analyst… TAPPER: So you call his cadence manic and uncontrolled. And then earlier today. And this is not the first time this has happened. And the president appeared to be struggling to keep his eyes open during a public White House event in the Oval Office earlier today. We’re showing the video right now. I don’t know if that worries you. What’s your take on that? What is that? DR. JONATHAN REINER, CNN MEDICAL ANALYST: So he’s he’s done this several times now in the last few weeks. He’s fallen asleep in a crowded Oval Office and he’s also fallen asleep at cabinet meetings with people talking directly to him. And that’s what’s called increased daytime somnolence. And there are a lot of things that there are a lot of things that that can do that. Sometimes people with sleep apnea, people who wake up many times during the night and don’t get restorative sleep, have that. That’s treated typically with CPAP, with CPAP masks. We’ve never been told the president has has sleep apnea. So but it’s jarring to see the president go from basically asleep in the Oval Office to, you know, really this rapid fire pace, you know, during basically a 30 minute speech that he gave in 18 minutes. It was. And again, what I said last night is no one should be happy to see that. Certainly his supporters shouldn’t have been happy to see him so so sort of loud and and almost out of control. And his detractors should not be happy to see him. You know, the president of the United States should be well, but there have been a lot of health issues. You know, he has the he has the chronic he has the chronic bruise. He had swollen ankles. He’s had these mysterious scans. We mentioned the daytime somnolence and then last night’s speech. So I think all of this raises consider, you know, realistic concerns about the health of the president. And it would be great if the White House was a little bit more forthcoming about about that. I can’t be the only person who had concerns after watching.

RealClearPolitics Videos