Donald Trump was already a mess -- now he's falling asleep during his own trial

[marmar]

Donald Trump was already a mess — now he's falling asleep during his own trial
Only a few hours into the New York hush-money trial, Trump couldn't stay awake. This guy's in big trouble

By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED APRIL 16, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) "Study in contrasts" is an entirely inadequate phrase to describe the different experiences of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump over the weekend. Regardless of one's opinion about the conflict in the Middle East, there's no doubt that Biden spent Saturday overseeing an impressive multinational effort to shoot down hundreds of Iranian drones, preventing what could have been a devastating attack on Israel. Meanwhile, Trump spent Saturday night babbling for more than an hour at a crowd of thousands in Pennsylvania, who gamely ignored their leader's incoherence enough to cheer whenever he dropped some of the buzzwords they know so well from Fox News.

Trump has never been big on making sense, but close observers have noticed that he's suffering a rapid decline from his already low standards lately. Saturday was a particularly cringeworthy demonstration, with Trump frequently drifting off into nonsense and stumbling over his own words.

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Being in court every day is hard enough for normal people, but Trump is likely to make it much harder on himself with his bad personal habits, starting with his well-documented unwillingness to sleep like a normal person. While most of us were sound asleep at 5:30 on Monday morning, Trump was going full-tilt on Truth Social, with his usual mix of hysterical lies, poor grammar and random capitalization. He's also frequently known to post social media tirades at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning.

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As rich as he claims to be, Trump lacks many of the resources other wealthy defendants, or even ordinary people, might have. He's 77 years old and doesn't take care of his health, probably because thinks doing that would be doing an admission that he's not the genetic superman he so often claims to be. Most people have a network of family and friends to rely on, but the people around Trump are mostly leeches and hangers-on, not folks who genuinely have compassion for him. He was eventually able to hire top-notch lawyers for this case, but that was a struggle. As the Washington Post reports, "most prominent white-collar practices have no interest in taking on such a controversial and combative client as Trump." .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/16/donald-was-already-a-mess-now-hes-falling-asleep-during-his-own-trial/

[gab13by13]

1. He doesn't have an unwillingness to sleep like a normal person,

One of the side effects of Adderall is the inability to sleep.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. It's like a drunk driver

running off the road and then telling the cop who shows up that you were unwilling to recognize the physical boundaries that define it.

[Lovie777]

2. I'm pretty sure they drugged him up...........................

[bamagal62]

3. Wonder what they'll drug

Him with today?

[SupportSanity]

5. They probably used Trump brand Valium

[malaise]

6. By the time this is over the fake emperor will be naled

and exposed.

Can’t wait😀

[Ray Bruns]

7. He needs to try the Homer Simpson method.

https://m.