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A White House guest collapsed behind President Trump during an Oval Office press conference, leading to an abrupt pause in coverage. A spokesperson from Eli Lilly said the man experienced a 'medical situation.
An event in the Oval Office on Thursday was suddenly halted when a White House guest collapsed behind President Donald Trump. The man was at the event for the president's announcement of his weight loss drug cost reduction plan and was seen appearing to faint and then caught by two others nearby as he started to fall to the floor.
SNL Oval Office cold open recreates the November 6 collapse and turns it into a riff on shutdowns, prices, and elections, drawing both praise and backlash.
A White House guest who was attending President Trump’s announcement about lowering the cost of obesity drugs fainted in the Oval Office, causing the event to be cut short. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement shortly after that the man was OK and identified him as a representative of one
During Trump's first term, Mar-a-Lago was referred to as the Southern White House. Now Trump is turning the White House a northern Mar-a-Lago.
In November 2025, a rumor spread online that U.S. President Donald Trump had moved the historic Resolute Desk from the Oval Office to Mar-a-Lago. Nearly every American president has used the Resolute Desk since Queen Victoria gifted it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.
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From jailed jihadist to the Oval Office: Syria's president caps unlikely rise with Trump meeting
Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is expected during his Washington visit Monday to commit to joining the U.S.-led coalition to defeat ISIS, two U.S. officials told NBC News.
The White House denied that Trump was dozing during the Oval Office event and suggested the question was inappropriate.