'Boring as hell': Trump reveals why he 'dozes off' during cabinet meeting; has nothing to do with health

President Donald Trump, 79, said he dozing off during the cabinet meetings has nothing to do with his health; he closes his eyes because the meetings are "boring as hell". “It’s boring as hell; I’m going around a room, and I’ve got 28 guys — the last one was three and a half hours. I have to sit back and listen, and I move my hand so that people will know I’m listening,” Trump told New York magazine which delved deep into unpacking the recent health speculations about Trump.

“I’m hearing every word, and I can’t wait to get out,” Trump said.

When Trump closes his eyes, he is listening

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that Trump closing his eyes does not mean he dozed off; he is actually listening. And the one place where Trump never takes a nap is on Air Force One. Rubio said there's an office with two couches which Marco Rubio generally chooses for sleeping. But he covers himself in a blanket like a mummy so that he's not spotted by Trump. Rubio said he knows that at some point on the flight, he knows Trump is going to emerge from his cabin and look for who is awake. "I want him to think it's a staffer who fell asleep. I don't want him to see his secretary of State sleeping on a couch and think, Oh, this guy is weak," Rubio said, asserting that Trump is too healthy and active.

Trump says he regrets taking MRI scan

Trump told The New York magazine that he regrets taking the MRI scan as advised by professionals at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. “It was the worst f**king thing I ever did, and I blame them,” Trump said, pointing at his doctors. “They wanted me to take it. And because I took it, people want to say, ‘Oh, there must be something wrong,’” he added.

Col. James Jones, who serves in the White House’s medical unit and sat in on Trump’s interview with the magazine, said they took a “computerized tomography exam of his chest and his abdomen,” noting the president didn’t actually have an MRI but something “MRI-like.”

“The reason for the imaging, as routine as we stated, is that any patient his age could have things, and we ruled them out,” Jones said. “The story should be about the fact that the results were, uh, perfect. They did not demonstrate any problems.”