His āSleepy Joeā nickname for his rival seems to have come full circle, with social media users now calling Mr Trump āSleepy Donā
While the rest of the world canāt peel their eyes away asĀ Donald TrumpāsĀ historic criminal trialĀ 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 theĀ 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 ā and at one point may have even fallen asleep.
āTrump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack,āĀ *New York TimesĀ *reporterĀ Maggie HabermanĀ reported.
The observation quickly inspired a new nickname for the 77-year-old former president: āSleepy Don.ā
Cāmon! Youāre not going to get a catchphrase like āyes we canā twice in one lifetime.
Man, you just reminded me how depressing it is both candidates in 2024 are ripping off Reaganās campaign slogans from over 40 years agoā¦
Like, they were both middle aged adults at the time, so Iām sure they donāt realize how much it highlights their age issues.
But itās just depressing republicans and Democrats both go to Ronald fucking Reagan when they think of what voters want.
This shit aināt representation
The dems will field a left wing candidate when the republican alternative isnāt a nazi populist who has stated publicly that he wants to destabilise the entire world and become god emperor for life. Simply put thereās too much at stake to start taking risks.
That will never happenā¦
Because that will never happen, it means by your logice will always have a neoliberal as president.
Which is exactly why Clintonās 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 arenāt 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 isnāt an opinion, itās been happening for 30+ years. Even if you didnāt notice.
Iām not saying itās sound logic. Just making an observation.
What?
The entire political system is engineered so that voters always think āitās too risky to ask for a good candidateāā¦
And youāre āmaking an observationā that we should just keep going along with it in perpetuity?
Iāve voted for decades, always D, and Iāve 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 FDRā¦
The people want progressive candidates. If the only thing thatās important is beating trump, then we need to run the candidate most likely to win.
History tells us thatās a popular progressive, and not an unpopular neoliberal.