Trump Seems Surprised by His 'Day in Court'

The ex-president caught up on some sleep and stated the obvious over and over.

Courtesy of Sawdust City 

Donald Trump seems genuinely amazed that he is in court. Time and again, he has whined about the obvious: “Never before has a former president been prosecuted like this. Never before in our history. This is shameful and simply unbelievable.” 

This is one of those rare occasions when I fully agree with Trump, with every word to be exact. Our system of government has never before been so openly challenged by such a narcissistic, dictator-wannabe. We have never had a single president in all of our 240-plus years as a nation who so openly challenged the belief that “no one is above the law.” Donald Trump has repeatedly broken the law and expects that because he was once president — and could be again soon — the laws of the nation cannot apply to him. I am sure this is one of the things he most envies about Putin, Xi, and the rest of the members of his vile little club of cowards and losers.

As Trump sits in the Manhattan court, watching as the prosecution struggles to find a jury impartial enough to try the sex-offending grifter — clearly, I would be eliminated from being selected for the jury — he is using his time productively. Yesterday, as his lawyer slid him notes with smiley faces and a lightbulb that resembled a heavyset woman bending over to pull up her underwear, Trump’s faux-tough-guy scowl was unwound, and his orange dome dropped ever so innocently toward his chest. He was sleeping. 

As he sat there dozing, no one could be faulted for imagining how silent it would be when sleep eternal came for America’s nightmare. Since that late afternoon when paid actors pretended to be his supporters, and he descended the escalators at Trump Tower, you realize just how much noise and commotion Trump has wrought in our lives — how much pain and suffering he has caused in the world.

Debilitatingly misinformed Americans (some would call them dumb, but not me) believe that the country and the world are less safe because of Joe Biden. 

On Saturday night, while Iran fired drones and missiles into Israel, Donald Trump talked a lot about chaos.

“What’s going on with the world?” Mr. Trump said while telling a story onstage. “Everybody’s fighting. Russia, Ukraine, Israel, the Middle East is blowing up. Everything’s blowing up. China’s going to be next with Taiwan; because of weakness, China’s going to be next. What’s going on?”

Mr. Trump had opened the rally by saying that Israel was under attack, adding that “it would not have happened if we were in office — they know that, we know that, everyone knows that.” Onstage, at rallies over the last year, Mr. Trump has done these alt-universe loops in which if the election hadn’t been taken from him, nothing bad would have befallen the world — no embarrassing Afghanistan withdrawal, no Hamas attack on Israel, no Russian invasion of Ukraine, no inflation. Sometimes, with the way Mr. Trump talks, he can subtly lock more and more people into his inability to process his 2020 defeat. He does this by pairing his personal misfortune with that of the entire globe (Trump Courts the Chaos).

All of these are going on precisely because Trump was president. When you have four years of the United States not being aggressive internationally but maintaining its commitment to some kind of liberal democratic world order, countries like Russia, China, Iran, and others will think twice before acting aggressively. When you have had a president who just turned his back on the liberal democratic system but also let the world’s dictators know that “America is not going to interfere, so do what you want,” things come undone. Trump’s presidency set off a chain of events that led us to the invasion of Ukraine to Chinese threats against Taiwan — China, by the way, does not plan on invading Taiwan any time soon — and you get the fascist in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. 

I shudder to imagine what would have happened had Ukraine been invaded when Trump was president. He would have done nothing. Joe Biden pulled together a coalition that stunned Putin and the Russian army. Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership, supported by Biden, is one of the reasons China and other countries have been kept in check. Trump’s meddling, however, in the affairs of the Congress and his payback to Putin have now threatened Ukraine’s survival. He forbade the Republicans in Congress from acting on the border security bill because Trump needs the world on fire. The hotter and larger the blaze, the better he looks to people — “Remember when I was president? None of this stuff was going on.”

The world was not afraid of Donald Trump. Few respected him. He was a gift that our enemies never imagined would be given, but thanks to the right-wing, fascist movement of the past 26 years, “dumb” (or shall I say misinformed) has been cultivated, and now it is being harvested. Nothing Trump did on the world stage strengthened our nation, and even less he did domestically made us “great again.” We are less united and weaker than we have ever been in our history, all thanks to the snoozing buffoon in the Manhattan criminal court.

Trump is indeed right: We have never seen anything like this in our nation’s history.

And it has all been caused by him. He is a sick, sad person who belongs in jail for criminally insane.