US President Donald Trump has also repeatedly mocked his predecessor, calling him Sleepy Joe

US Vice President J.D. Vance has insinuated that former president Joe Biden's wife Jill ran his cabinet meetings in his stead while he slept.

Since assuming office in January, US President Donald Trump has repealed a number of his predecessor's policies and repeatedly branded the octogenarian as incompetent.

In a Fox News interview on Thursday, Vance was asked about alleged tensions in Trump's cabinet, following media reports of a row between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's government efficiency czar, Elon Musk.

Vance confirmed that parts of the rumor were true but denied that there was any "misalignment" in the cabinet.

The cabinet will need to "solve" issues "without some random staffer leaking it," the vice president added, admitting he was "annoyed" by the leak.

"We're not going to have an administration where you have a president who sits there at cabinet meetings asleep while his wife runs the cabinet meeting and nobody's doing anything," he added.

Trump has repeatedly mocked his predecessor as "Sleepy Joe" in reference to Biden's multiple public gaffes during his term.

Biden's mental state became a major topic during the 2024 presidential campaign, and Republicans have often claimed that the octogenarian lacked the mental faculties to be able to run the country.

Yet, it was Biden's disastrous performance in last June's CNN-hosted debate with Trump that revealed his mental state to the public. Biden repeatedly lost his train of thought, made multiple verbal slips and struggled to finish sentences.

Under mounting pressure, he withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed his then-Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee last July.

A few months after the infamous debate, the former president's 73-year-old first lady Jill appeared at the head of a cabinet meeting instead of her husband, leading some Republicans to questions who was really in charge of the US at the time.

(RT.com)