His ā€˜Sleepy Joeā€™ nickname for his rival seems to have come full circle, with social media users now calling Mr Trump ā€˜Sleepy Donā€™

While the rest of the world canā€™t peel their eyes away asĀ Donald Trumpā€™sĀ 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.

ā€œTrump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack,ā€Ā *New York TimesĀ *reporterĀ Maggie HabermanĀ reported.

The observation quickly inspired a new nickname for the 77-year-old former president: ā€œSleepy Don.ā€

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    when the republican alternative isnā€™t a nazi

    1. That will never happenā€¦

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

    Which is exactly why Clintonā€™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 arenā€™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 isnā€™t an opinion, itā€™s been happening for 30+ years. Even if you didnā€™t notice.

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        5 months ago

        What?

        The entire political system is engineered so that voters always think ā€œitā€™s too risky to ask for a good candidateā€ā€¦

        And youā€™re ā€œmaking an observationā€ that we should just keep going along with it in perpetuity?

        Iā€™ve voted for decades, always D, and Iā€™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 FDRā€¦

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

        History tells us thatā€™s a popular progressive, and not an unpopular neoliberal.