Donald Trump nodding off on live TV and a turn of phrase used by Stephen Miller during interviews has left MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend asking, “Who is actually in charge here?”

Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast, Sanders-Townsend—a former advisor to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris—argued that Trump aides’ casual reaction to the 79-year-old president’s Oval Office nap last week suggests such lapses have become disturbingly routine.

“When I saw that, it brought up the questions again about, what is the actual apparatus of this White House? Who is actually in charge here?” said Sanders-Townsend, co-host of The Weeknight. “Because that can’t be the first time the president fell asleep. You know how I know? Because they didn’t bat an eye.”

Sanders-Townsend, 35, noted that at Trump’s f

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