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President Donald Trump gave a backhanded compliment about former President Joe Biden's willingness to sleep despite being photographed during his exclusive interview with FOX News' Laura Ingraham this week.
“The only thing I admired about sleepy Joe Biden is the following,” Trump said. “He’d go to a beach, lay down on a cot — barely able to get his feet through the sand — he’d lay down and within minutes he’s sleeping and have cameras watching.”
“I could never do that. I would never be able to sleep like that," he added before once again bashing his predecessor. "That’s the only thing that I think that was wonderful. It was a disaster, this man was a disaster.”
Dr. Ronny Jackson, who served as the White House physician during Trump's first presidential term, claimed that he was getting by on just four to five hours of sleep nightly.
“I don’t sleep much,” Trump told Ingraham this week. “A lot of people that love what they are doing don’t sleep much, I find. And so far it’s been OK.”
Biden's alleged sleeping habits were frequently the target of Trump's attacks during their 2020 campaigns and the former president's four years in office, mocking him with the nickname "Sleepy Joe" as he's done with several other rivals. Biden frequently visited Rehoboth Beach in his home state of Delaware during his presidency, which included being photographed lounging near the ocean on several occasions.
“He goes to the beach all the time,” then-candidate Trump said during a campaign rally in October. “Somebody told him he looks great in a bathing suit. Typically—typically—an 82-year-old man does not look great in a bathing suit. There may be a couple, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it.”