'Dozy Don' Strikes Again: Donald Trump Caught 'Nodding Off' During Pam Bondi Speech

US President Donald Trump was filmed with his eyes closed and head drooping during a crime and public safety roundtable in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday 23 March, prompting fresh claims online that the 79-year-old president had nodded off as former US Attorney General Pam Bondi addressed the event.

The clip, shared widely on X, is the latest in a string of moments in which Trump has been accused of dozing during official business. The footage from Memphis shows him sitting beside Bondi, eyes shut for an extended period, even after she turns towards him mid-speech.

The visual alone has been enough for critics to label him 'Dozy Don' again.

'Dozy Don' Moment Revives Questions About Donald Trump's Fitness

This is not the first time Trump has had to address such accusations. In a January interview with the Wall Street Journal, he insisted that similar clips merely show him briefly resting his eyes. He rejected the idea he was napping on the job, saying he was simply taking a moment.

'I'll just close. It's very relaxing to me,' he told the paper. 'Sometimes they'll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they'll catch me with the blink.'

Trump's apparent difficulty staying alert in public appearances has fuelled speculation that he may no longer be mentally fit to lead the country.

His administration, however, has kept to a much cleaner line. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Vice President J.D. Vance are cited as among those who have praised his 'unmatched energy', pushing back against suggestions of cognitive decline and presenting him instead as vigorous, sharp and fully in command.

Critics, though, are not confining themselves to talk of blinks and catnaps. Trump's visible health has been under scrutiny for months, with social media users poring over images of what they describe as bulging ankles, bruised hands and, more recently, a rash on his neck.

As of this reporting, none of those observations has been clarified by official medical statements, and no diagnosis has been made public, but they have fed a running narrative that the president is ageing quickly in office.

Donald Trump's Health Boasts Clash With His Public Image

That perception battle sits uneasily alongside the story Trump prefers to tell about his body. Speaking at a St Patrick's Day event on Tuesday 17 March, he again cited his former White House physician, Republican congressman Ronny Jackson, as proof he is thriving.

'I'll never forget, they said, "Who's the healthiest president?" Because he covered [Barack] Obama. He covered some others — I don't want to say who. And Trump. He said "By far, Trump. There's nobody even close",' Trump told the crowd.

He followed it up days later, on Friday 20 March, at an event honouring the US Naval Academy football team, recalling Jackson allegedly telling him he could live to 200 if he changed the way he eats.

It lands rather differently when set against Trump's own admissions about his lifestyle. He has openly called exercise 'boring' and has never pretended to be a fan of a balanced diet, celebrating his fondness for McDonald's on the record.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, who in this account is described as Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary, spoke candidly about the president's eating habits in a January interview.

'I don't know how he's alive,' Kennedy Jr said. 'The interesting thing about the president is that he eats really bad food, which is McDonald's and then you know KFC and Diet Coke, but he has the constitution of a deity, I don't know how he's alive, but he is.'

Trump will turn 80 in June.