Donald Trump was already a babbling mess -- and he's falling asleep during his own trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The smart move, no doubt, would be to keep Trump at home when he's not in court.
44% : Trump is so profoundly narcissistic that having to sit still in court all day every day would break his already fragile mind.
43% : Getting Trump ready for court likely means a lengthy session to lacquer on his makeup and coax what remains of his hair into that fluffy combover.
42% : The trial had barely started when Trump hit his first wall.
39% : Most people have a network of family and friends to rely on, but the people around Trump are mostly leeches and hangers-on, not folks who genuinely have compassion for him.
37% : There is absolutely no reason to feel sorry for people who choose to work for Trump, but one is almost tempted to have some sympathy for the impossible situation his campaign team find themselves in.
36% : Meanwhile, Trump spent Saturday night babbling for more than an hour at a crowd of thousands in Pennsylvania, who gamely ignored their leader's incoherence enough to cheer whenever he dropped some of the buzzwords they know so well from Fox News.
36% : Sure, Democrats would seize the opportunity to mock him as old and tired -- but every time Trump gets in front of cameras these days, he removes all doubt.
34% : Saturday was a particularly cringeworthy demonstration, with Trump frequently drifting off into nonsense and stumbling over his own words.
31% : Trump is understandably focused on fending off that day when a jury foreman reads the word "guilty" out loud -- but in terms of maintaining what is left of his tattered mental acuity, that's not a great strategy.
30% : There's at least one recording of Trump sounding like a two-bit gangster, and there may be others.
28% : Trump has never been big on making sense, but close observers have noticed that he's suffering a rapid decline from his already low standards lately.
25% : Stormy Daniels will likely be prevented from using the colorful descriptive terms she's employed in media interviews, but on the witness stand she will be asked to recount what sounds like a miserable and effectively coerced sexual encounter with Trump.
25% : Most importantly, Trump himself knows how guilty he is, which is probably why his eye-bags seem to be expanding at a rate that no amount of Sephora products can conceal.
23% : Being in court every day is hard enough for normal people, but Trump is likely to make it much harder on himself with his bad personal habits, starting with his well-documented unwillingness to sleep like a normal person.
23% : It means many more days of Trump trying, and likely failing, to handle the pressure of being a criminal defendant while running a presidential campaign.
21% : While most of us were sound asleep at 5:30 on Monday morning, Trump was going full-tilt on Truth Social, with his usual mix of hysterical lies, poor grammar and random capitalization.
21% : As rich as he claims to be, Trump lacks many of the resources other wealthy defendants, or even ordinary people, might have.
21% : As the Washington Post reports, "most prominent white-collar practices have no interest in taking on such a controversial and combative client as Trump.
18% : Trump knows that's a bad look, which is why he tried to conceal it with brute-force lying.
17% : (Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images)"Study in contrasts" is an entirely inadequate phrase to describe the different experiences of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump over the weekend.
12% : His former "fixer," Michael Cohen, may have credibility issues the defense will certainly bring up, but Cohen can respond that whenever he lied, he was doing it for Donald Trump.

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