His ‘Sleepy Joe’ nickname for his rival seems to have come full circle, with social media users now calling Mr Trump ‘Sleepy Don’

While the rest of the world can’t peel their eyes away as Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial gets under way in New York, the former president himself appears to be far less enthralled by the proceedings.

Jury selection got under way on Monday in the first-ever criminal trial of a sitting or former president, as he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a bid to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

But, according to some courtroom reporters, Mr Trump appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open – and at one point may have even fallen asleep.

“Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack,” *New York Times *reporter Maggie Haberman reported.

The observation quickly inspired a new nickname for the 77-year-old former president: “Sleepy Don.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The difference here is Trump

    This is the third election in a row where it’s trump tho…

    And if he loses, he’s likely running again. If he wins, 2028 is going to be someone else just as bad if not worse.

    We can’t run a country “paycheck to paycheck”, we have to plan further ahead than “next election”.

    Still, people he had no chance of winning the general election, and he won.

    Because we keep running unpopular candidates against him

    So let’s stop doing that? Biden barely beat trump by the skin of his teeth and Biden is substantiallynless popular than he was four years ago with his own voter base. And that cost over a Billion dollars to beat trump in 2020

    There’s no logical reason not to run a candidate that voters actually like

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      7 months ago

      For the record, I am not downvoting you. Civil discussion is healthy and we need to be having these discussions.