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

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.”

  • Colour_me_triggered
    5·
    3 months ago

    C’mon! You’re not going to get a catchphrase like “yes we can” twice in one lifetime.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      3 months ago

      Man, you just reminded me how depressing it is both candidates in 2024 are ripping off Reagan’s campaign slogans from over 40 years ago…

      Like, they were both middle aged adults at the time, so I’m sure they don’t realize how much it highlights their age issues.

      But it’s just depressing republicans and Democrats both go to Ronald fucking Reagan when they think of what voters want.

      This shit ain’t representation

      • Colour_me_triggered
        31·
        3 months ago

        The dems will field a left wing candidate when the republican alternative isn’t a nazi populist who has stated publicly that he wants to destabilise the entire world and become god emperor for life. Simply put there’s too much at stake to start taking risks.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          3 months ago

          when the republican alternative isn’t a nazi

          1. That will never happen…

          2. Because that will never happen, it means by your logice will always have a neoliberal as president.

          Which is exactly why Clinton’s 2016 primary campaign was rooting for trump

          Your path just keeps the country slowly moving right when Dems are in control, and sprinting right when Republicans are.

          The end result is we keep going right .

          Like, republicans aren’t just magically going to become sane, especially if Dems keep moving right to try and steal voters from Republicans. It just concentrates the crazy and makes more nonvoters.

          This isn’t an opinion, it’s been happening for 30+ years. Even if you didn’t notice.

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              13·
              3 months ago

              What?

              The entire political system is engineered so that voters always think “it’s too risky to ask for a good candidate”…

              And you’re “making an observation” that we should just keep going along with it in perpetuity?

              I’ve voted for decades, always D, and I’ve only been enthusiastic once.

              In 2008 for Obama before he let us down. And he got a landslide victory despite being essentially unknown nationally and flipped states that had been red for decades.

              The only other time we saw results like that was FDR…

              The people want progressive candidates. If the only thing that’s important is beating trump, then we need to run the candidate most likely to win.

              History tells us that’s a popular progressive, and not an unpopular neoliberal.