Trump Seems Surprised by His ‘Day in Court’

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

B Kean
4 min readApr 16, 2024
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…

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B Kean

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