On trial, Trump is a shadow of the superhero his supporters crave
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/trump-trial-superhero-shadowDonald Trump is already in jail. He is pressed into confinement every weekday, except Wednesdays, beginning bright and early, no excuses, at 9.30 in the morning, in the dreary courtroom in Manhattan, where his impulse to mouth off wearies and worries his lawyers, and he must listen, for the first time since his father slapped him down, to an authority telling him to gag himself. He had more leeway when Fred Trump shipped the problem child to the New York military academy where Donald bullied his classmates.
Day after day, Trump slumps in his chair, his eyes narrowing and closing, his facial features sagging, until he suddenly jerks to life, once muttering a seemingly veiled threat to a potential juror that earned him a rebuke from Judge Juan Merchan that if he persisted he would be in contempt for witness intimidation. Without self-discipline, Trump invites being disciplined. Lacking control, he fails to control himself. Time and again, he falls asleep, “appeared to nod off a few times, his mouth going slack and his head drooping onto his chest”, Maggie Haberman reported in the New York Times.
...But the action hero can’t move without permission. “Sir, would you please have a seat,” the judge ordered when he stood up to walk out before adjournment. Superman can’t fly. He may dream of racing like Batman through Gotham, but he is facing the judge on the high bench issue a ruling about his contempt for violating the gag order.
He has lost more than his ability to articulate; he is becoming disarticulated as a figure. “It is a shame,” he whined. “I am sitting here for days now, from morning until night in that freezing room. Everybody was freezing in there! And all for this. This is your result. It is very unfair.” Under the weight of the trial, he is decaying, “haggard and rumpled, his gait off-center, his eyes blank”, according to the Times.
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I've been waiting to see the bully thug disintegrate for 40 years, especially on a maximum exposure stage.
I also revel in hopefully seeing his adoring Magat hordes eat endless crow and maybe do a bit of self-examination. That's probably asking for the impossible, but a guy can hope.
but I'd sure love to see it. You know that the chickenshit wants to.
The only "fighting" he's ever done was on criminal pal Vince McMahon's WWE Wrestling.
...By night, his superpower taps his soiled Depends to overcome others through odor and demented and deranged oratory to become Bullshit Boy, America's Traitor™.
I can see 3 seasons of 8 episodes right off the bat, et tu. We can get financing for the whole thing up front from North Korea.
It's the Greatest Show on Earth! 
