'Under pressure' Trump spotted 'freezing' up in Netanyahu meeting

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trump is NOT well

'Under pressure' Trump spotted 'freezing' up in Netanyahu meeting

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— Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair.bsky.social) 2025-12-30T21:20:10.541Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-netanyahu-2674837032/

An "under pressure" Donald Trump was spotted "freezing" up in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Body language expert Judi James, speaking to The Mirror US, believes the encounter at Mar-a-Lago had an unexpected pause that caught Trump and Netanyahu off guard. Trump was spotted freezing momentarily as he spoke with Israel's prime minister, which James has suggested is a sign of growing pressure for the president.

"Losing track or 'freezing' mid-flow is a common experience for most people," James said, "especially when they are tired or feeling under pressure, but it will usually come with compensatory signals like a clicking of the fingers or filler noises or winding gestures to fill the gap and explain the search for the right word, but there are no signs of any of these from Trump here."

James went on to suggest that Trump was not pausing to think about what he wanted to say, but had frozen up. The difference, she said, comes from how Trump speaks in meetings, with a "stream-of-consciousness style with few, if any, moments of showing he's evaluating the wisdom of speaking out of turn."

The "freezing" could be because Trump was unaware that Netanyahu or his team were listening to him, and James suggested Trump was "distracted by the lack of active listening signals from the other side of the table, plus one 'soft power' ritual that a lot of hosts do have a problem with."

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1. Was this like the episodes Sen McConnell had?

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3. I do not know--they did not have a video in the OP

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5. 🙏

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2. Too bad he doesn't turn into a pillar of salt.

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4. look at him in that picture

WTF IS WRONG WITH HIM, UGH, WHAT A FUCKING EMBARRASSMENT HE IS

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6. Maddowblog-Amid health questions, Trump changes his story in weird and unexpected ways

“I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart,” the president said. “Does that make sense?” Actually, no.

Amid health questions, Trump changes his story in weird and unexpected ways - MS NOW

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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/amid-health-questions-trump-changes-his-story-in-weird-and-unexpected-ways

While it’s possible that there was no cause for concern, Trump’s unfortunate record made it difficult to give him and his team the benefit of the doubt. It was against this backdrop that the president spoke to The Wall Street Journal about these questions, and his comments advanced the story in weird and unexpected ways. From the report:

President Trump is taking more aspirin than his doctors recommend. He briefly tried wearing compression socks for his swelling ankles, but stopped because he didn’t like them. And he regrets undergoing advanced imaging because it generated scrutiny of his health.

‘In retrospect, it’s too bad I took it because it gave them a little ammunition,’ Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on his decision to get a cardiovascular and abdominal scan in October.

Broadly speaking, there are a handful of key takeaways from the reporting and interview......

The president, the Journal went on to report, “has at times eschewed the advice of his doctors and scoffed at the medical community’s widely accepted health recommendations.” This is especially true when it comes to aspirin, which he chooses to take daily and which apparently causes him to bruise easily. In fact, the president acknowledged applying makeup to his hands to obscure discoloration.

“His skin is so delicate that Pam Bondi, now his attorney general, caused his hand to bleed when she nicked him with her ring while giving him a high-five at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,” the article noted......

Stepping back, the president’s comments were hardly out of character. Throughout his decadelong political career, Trump has repeatedly expressed his disdain for science and medical evidence on everything from the climate crisis to vaccines to Covid-19 treatments, so it stands to reason that Mr. Inject Disinfectants is going to prioritize his superstitions and baseless assumptions about “nice, thin blood” over the recommendations of those who know what they’re talking about.

The trouble is, this is the same president who believes he has the credibility and expertise needed to give the public guidance on, among other things, how much Tylenol to take and what child vaccination schedules should look like.

In other words, Trump’s comments to the Journal weren’t just important in their own right, they were also a timely reminder to the public that his judgment on matters related to health are better left ignored.