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
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.