His ‘Sleepy Joe’ nickname for his rival seems to have come full circle, with social media users now calling Mr Trump ‘Sleepy Don’
While the rest of the world can’t peel their eyes away as Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial 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 the 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 – and at one point may have even fallen asleep.
“Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack,” *New York Times *reporter Maggie Haberman reported.
The observation quickly inspired a new nickname for the 77-year-old former president: “Sleepy Don.”
Absolute poppycock. There’s maybe a dozen different Dems and Dem-aligned Independents who have enough name recognition and are significantly more popular than Biden.
It’s the DNC leadership and their owner donors standing in the way because he serves their interests. Biden is NOT the least bad candidate possible by a long shot!
Hell, I bet even fucking BETO would stand a better chance of a comfortable win against the worst president in US history, that’s how awful a candidate Biden is!
If our election systems were better, yes, that would be more likely to be successful, and it would certainly be preferred (at least by me). Ranked choice or approval would be awesome!
In no election system is gambling the very democracy of a country on a bad candidate who refuses to own up to and correct his mistakes the smart play.
In fact, it’s EXTRA risky and stupid to insist on such a candidate in a binary system such as the US one.
If and when this becomes the last free presidential election, it won’t be because the people was given a choice and chose poorly. It will be because Biden and the rest of the DNC leadership chose poorly and refused to listen to the warnings and eminently reasonable concerns of the people, effectively disenfranchising everyone who’s neither a member of the fascist Trump cult or an automatically obedient DNC loyalist.