Tommy Tuberville’s Latest Boast About Trump Gets A Brutal Wake-Up Call | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump has spent a fortune in taxpayer {dollars} on his golf holidays and commonly falls asleep throughout formal conferences and briefings, however Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Tuesday stated he’s “the hardest-working president” in American historical past.

He showered Trump with reward throughout an look on the Fox Business Network.

“We got the hardest-working president ever,” stated Tuberville. “He’s not getting a lot of help from Congress, either the House or the Senate, Republicans either. We’ve done a little bit here, we should’ve done another reconciliation on health care before the first of the year.”

He added, “We have another one we can do. All it takes is a little bit of work, but President Trump sleeps about two hours a day. He’s bound and determined not to just take care of the people, the taxpayers here, but as I said, the rest of the hemisphere.”

Tuberville’s feedback have resulted in widespread mockery from critics on social media.

“Yeah, but he gets all his sleep during important daytime meetings, then spends all night posting lies and whining on social media,” wrote one person on X, with one other person including: “‘President Trump sleeps about 2 hours a day.’ And that’s during cabinet meetings.”

The president’s unorthodox sleep schedule prompted widespread fascination throughout his first time period, however has since turn out to be greater than a mere curiosity: Trump has regularly dozed off in public in latest months and appeared to have bruising on his hand and swelling in his legs.

The White House confirmed in July that Trump has been identified with continual venous insufficiency, which happens when the leg veins don’t enable blood to stream again to the guts, and introduced in October that he was having his second “yearly” checkup in six months.

Tuberville appeared to echo an more and more widespread MAGA narrative Tuesday along with his comment that Trump is “determined,” as quite a few senior administration officers and Trump himself have brazenly argued that the U.S. is answerable for the complete Western Hemisphere.

He went on to reward Trump for the U.S. navy operation in Venezuela final month to oust now-former President Nicolás Maduro, which resulted within the seizure of the nation’s oil, and defended Trump’s ongoing efforts for the U.S. to annex or purchase Greenland.

“What he did down in Venezuela was outstanding,” Tuberville stated Tuesday. “What he’s trying to do in Greenland with the Golden Dome, all the things he’s put together, he’s doing hisself. Only thing we do is we do nominations.”

Tuberville has cheerfully championed Trump on many events earlier than: he not solely backed his baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged, however argued after Trump’s analysis was introduced that it may need been brought on by him “fighting the radicals” on the left.

Last week, Tuberville recommended Presidents Day be renamed within the MAGA chief’s honor.

Tuberville has criticized Trump prior to now, however seems to have been received over after receiving his endorsement in 2020. On Tuesday, he stated Republicans “haven’t done a whole lot for the president” — and must do extra to assist him cross the SAVE Act, which might require proof of citizenship to vote.