The Joy of Making Trump Listen to Mean Tweets About Himself [View all]

The Joy of Making Trump Listen to Mean Tweets About Himself
FOR THE LULZ
The vicious, thin-skinned ex-president was forced to endure readings of social media posts by prospective jurors that mercilessly mocked him. It was great.
David Mack
Updated Apr. 17, 2024 3:25AM EDT / Published Apr. 16, 2024 8:03PM EDT


In his historic New York criminal trial, former President Donald Trump faces the prospect of some very real punishments—including fines and even prison time.

But in court in Manhattan on Tuesday, the former president was subjected to a different kind of punishment that seemed almost expressly designed to torment him: He had to sit silently as mean tweets about him were read aloud.

As prosecutors and defense lawyers sparred over the composition of the jury that will ultimately decide the hush money case, some of the prospective jurors’ past social media posts about the former president were debated for evidence of possible bias. As a result, for more than an hour the notoriously thin-skinned Trump was forced to listen to jokes about his appearance, his likeability, his intelligence, and—to use a phrase Team Trump first popularized—whether prosecutors should “lock him up.”

You can practically hear the staff in the Saturday Night Live writing room sharpening their pencils already.

more...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-joy-of-making-trump-listen-to-mean-tweets-about-himself?ref=home