{"id":30170,"date":"2026-01-27T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/marco-rubio-cocoons-like-a-mummy-in-bizarre-strategy-to-hide-naps-from-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:06:00","slug":"marco-rubio-cocoons-like-a-mummy-in-bizarre-strategy-to-hide-naps-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/marco-rubio-cocoons-like-a-mummy-in-bizarre-strategy-to-hide-naps-from-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio &#8216;cocoons like a mummy&#8217; in bizarre strategy to hide naps from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>It&#8217;s a wellknown fact that President Trump doesn&#8217;t <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-5284457\/Donald-Trump-sleeps-four-hours-night-wise.html\">get much sleep<\/a>  a reality that those closest to him experience first-hand, especially during long treks on Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s stamina has put some of his Cabinet members to shame, withSecretary of State <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/marco_rubio\/index.html\" id=\"mol-87dfe310-fb8e-11f0-90ee-3f0d59becb38\">Marco Rubio<\/a>seeking cover &#8211; literally.<\/p>\n<p>A new report says the Floridian often spends his flights with the president huddled under a blanket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s an office with two couches, and I usually want to sleep on one of those two couches,&#8217; Rubio told New York Magazine in a recent interview. &#8216;But what I do is I cocoon myself in a blanket. I cover my head. I look like a mummy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Rubio pretended to pull a blanket over him as he continued to describe his sleeping style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I do that because I know that at some point on the flight, he&#8217;s going to emerge from the cabin and start prowling the hallways to see who is awake. I want him to think it&#8217;s a staffer who fell asleep. I don&#8217;t want him to see his Secretary of State sleeping on a couch and think, Oh, this guy is weak,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the president and those around him saying he doesn&#8217;t take naps, Trump has been caught with his eyes closed on camera, even during public meetings with the Cabinet and inside the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio charitably claims that&#8217;s a &#8216;listening mechanism.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wellknown fact that President Trump doesn&#8217;t get much sleep  a reality that those closest to him experience first-hand, especially during long treks on Air Force One<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s stamina has put some of his Cabinet members to shame, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio seeking cover &#8211; literally<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rubio is officially the ultimate multitasker of the MAGA era<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the New York Magazine interview, Trump gave a different reason why his eyes have been shut during Cabinet meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s boring as hell I&#8217;m going around a room, and I&#8217;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&#8217;m listening. I&#8217;m hearing every word, and I can&#8217;t wait to get out,&#8217; Trump candidly explained.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio is officially the ultimate multitasker of the MAGA era.<\/p>\n<p>He likely has more jobs than any other cabinet member  serving as the acting national security adviser and acting archivist of the US in addition to running the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>But despite his unprecedented triplethreat role, Rubio is finding time to shut down critics of Trump&#8217;s mental fitness<\/p>\n<p>In one candid moment, Rubio recalled how Trump took one look at his footwear and didn&#8217;t hold back, telling him his shoes looked &#8216;shitty.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At a subsequent meeting, he says Trump proved his memory was sharp as ever when he presented Rubio with a surprise gift: a signed box containing a brandnew pair of size 12 shoes.<\/p>\n<p>In another story told by Rubio, during a State Department visit, Trump noticed something that had escaped everyone else: the chandeliers were missing their &#8216;medallions&#8217;the decorative ornamental discs that anchor them to the ceiling.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio watches as President Donald Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Venezuela<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Despite the president and those around him saying he doesn&#8217;t take naps, Trump has been caught with his eyes closed on camera, even during public meetings with the Cabinet and inside the Oval Office<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just days later, Rubio found himself summoned to the Oval Office, where the President had laid out dozens of medallion samples.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t even know how many I need,&#8217; Rubio recalled telling Trump. &#8216;He said, &#8216;I think you need 12,&#8217; and sure enough &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I try to match it as much as I can. It&#8217;s just not natural to me,&#8217; Rubio confessed.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Magazine interview was focused primarily on Trump&#8217;s health, in which he dismissed fears of Alzheimer&#8217;s while <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/galleries\/article-15499799\/Trump-dismisses-Alzheimers-fears-struggles-recall-disease.html\">forgetting the name of the disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like President Joe Biden before him, who, when elected, was the country&#8217;s oldest president, there are nagging questions about Trump&#8217;s health, who, when <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/galleries\/article-10697239\/Trump-75-admits-health-stop-running-president-again.html\">reelected<\/a>, is on track to become the country&#8217;s oldest president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump appeared irritated that the topic kept coming up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I hate to waste a lot of time on this, but if you&#8217;re going to write a bad story about my health, I&#8217;m going to sue the a** off of New York Magazine,&#8217; he told Terris. &#8216;There will be a time when you can write that story, maybe in two years, three years, five years five years, no one is going to care, I guess.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a wellknown fact that President Trump doesn&#8217;t get much sleep a reality that those closest to him experience first-hand, especially during long treks on Air Force One. Trump&#8217;s stamina has put some of his Cabinet members to shame, withSecretary of State Marco Rubioseeking cover &#8211; literally. 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