Trump wandered away from a meeting with oil bosses to stare out a window and ramble about ballroom construction – 20 unforgettable reactions
Say what you like what Donald Trump – and there’s little left to be said anymore – but nobody can deny he’s totally focused on the job.
Take this meeting with the oil industry the other day, where he held a roundtable press conference to convince companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron to invest in Venezuela’s oil infrastructure.
The chief executive of oil company ExxonMobil says Venezuela is currently “uninvestable” as he calls for “significant changes” to the country’s legal system at a White House meeting with Donald Trump and other oil executives.
Sky 501 pic.twitter.com/HPJEQx0ajL
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 9, 2026
Now, maybe it was because he was being told something he didn’t want to hear in the gathering. But at one stage the 79-year-old president abruptly paused the meeting to walk over to the window and gaze wistfully out at the construction site of his new $350m ballroom.
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Trump stops mid-sentence to admire his ballroom:
“Wow. What a beaut… Unusual time to look, but I figured we might as well” pic.twitter.com/uf9kcpzhHi
— FactPost (@factpostnews) January 9, 2026
All while rambling about its good qualities, including how it could withstand any seemingly very violent inaugurations he imagines taking place in the future.
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Trump on the ballroom: “It will take care of the inauguration with bulletproof glass, drone-proof ceilings, and everything else unfortunately that today you need.” pic.twitter.com/RHSt95eoh6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 9, 2026
Trump’s little break during a high-stakes meeting with international implications did not go unnoticed.
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The oldest man ever elected president gets up and wanders away mid-press conference to stare wistfully out the window https://t.co/XdHa9YeRKo
— The okayest poster there is (@ok_post_guy) January 9, 2026
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They’re all just sitting there hoping he doesn’t actually drop his pants to pee in the corner.
pic.twitter.com/P7WmAKGKuK— Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist (@jimstewartson) January 10, 2026
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We need to talk about grandpa https://t.co/uvq8Jn8bv5
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 9, 2026
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A scene from an assisted living facility. https://t.co/fEfjX2VdZy
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 9, 2026
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What a view of his incredibly bald head!!! How is that not a topic??? pic.twitter.com/9ystGQRBlq
— Rich Miner (@richminer) January 9, 2026
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Is there a term for a table full of ass-kissers? https://t.co/nkefyRrBLW
— Rose MM (@esorruzam) January 10, 2026
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— The Disruptor (@IWashington) January 10, 2026
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Spot on, Eric. Grandpa nodding off in a room packed with groveling Big Oil sycophants—an embarrassing tableau of cognitive decline and corrupt fealty from a fading, addled wannabe strongman. Pathetic and un-American.
— Dr. Cole (@1drcole) January 9, 2026
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It’s getting harder for them to hide grandpa’s decline.
pic.twitter.com/9yGLDMEo7s— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 10, 2026
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If Biden had wondered off like this it would’ve been FRONT PAGE NEWS and every single MAGA account on here and the BOT FARM ELON runs would’ve reposted it for the next 2 weeks https://t.co/mGv3swSriS
— The Last Nïnjah (@BookofJahJah) January 10, 2026