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Showing Original Post only (View all)On trial, Trump is a shadow of the superhero his supporters crave [View all]
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 cant move without permission. Sir, would you please have a seat, the judge ordered when he stood up to walk out before adjournment. Superman cant 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'm waiting for him to start pushing and shoving, and maybe even with police.
lindysalsagal
Apr 23
#2
Thanks, Hekate. Sidney Blumenthal is an outstanding writer & analyst, one of his best pieces here.
Bundbuster
Apr 23
#7
I wish there were cameras in the courtroom to capture him slumping and falling asleep.
Lonestarblue
Apr 23
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