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Sleepless Trump, 80, Unravels in Overnight Air Force One Posting Meltdown

The Daily Beast

June 18, 2026

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Narrative Analysis: Name Calling

Sleepless Trump, 80, Unravels in Overnight Air Force One Posting Meltdown

Kylie Cooper / Kylie Cooper/ReutersDonald Trump stayed up all night posting on social media when the 80-year-old president should really have been getting some sleep.The president, who has a habit of falling asleep in public, boarded Air Force One to fly back from France just before 2 a.m. local time on Thursday (8 p.m Wednesday ET).Instead of using the transatlantic flight back to the U.S. to get some much-needed rest, Trump spent the time posting on Truth Social.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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