Overview
- The White House hosted an Oval Office ceremony Monday where President Trump signed an executive order directing a review of federal childhood vaccine recommendations and urging that the MMR shot be split into separate doses.
- Video of the event showing the 80-year-old president with his eyes closed was clipped and widely shared on social media, drawing renewed public and congressional scrutiny of his daytime alertness.
- Online users seized on a woman standing behind Trump, identified as Jayme Leagh Franklin, and promoted a baseless 'zapper' theory that she pressed a hidden button to jolt him awake.
- Franklin publicly rejected those claims on X by writing, "I'm just pregnant you weirdos," and multiple outlets report there is no evidence supporting the device theory.
- Public-health experts have criticized the administration’s vaccine proposal as medically unsound, warning that splitting established combined shots could raise infection risk and add burdens on families, and observers say the episode will keep focus on CDC processes and presidential fitness concerns.