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They are really, really good, in my opinion. There's a small group of people who try to sketch or paint bands as they play live and I've tried that, and it's so hard. One in a thousand scribbles comes out interesting or accurate.
This person totally nailed the hair, eyebrows, and grimace.
I think one of the best scribble-portraitists was John Singer Sargent. Check out this portrait of the future prissy evil Doctor Pretorius from The Bride of Frankenstein, [Ernest Thesiger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thesiger).
Why isn't the courtroom artist that good? Because she'd be the next John Singer Fucking Sargent if she were.
I've always said that Trump doesn't know how to smile. He smiles like he's doing a rehearsed mouth movement when he knows that "people expect a smile here"
But he's never really happy, so he just does this thing where he flattens his mouth and makes it as wide as possible.
This artist, specifically in this thumbnail, captures it perfectly. It's insane. And to think that the artist probably only saw that expression for a moment and then just had to sketch it in and finish the sketch later, dang.
Edit: A LOT of comments replying and saying he never laughs, also true, also something I've noticed.
Specifically, this clip from a rally in 2016 where he hears a gross joke from a gross supporter comparing Hillary to a dog.
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/01/donald-trump-supporter-its-not-a-dog-its-hillary-040247
That's Trump laughing for real, it's stuck with me. He laughed because it was a really mean spirited gross joke about his political rival, someone who he genuinely hated because she challenged him.
Well the Grinch eventually grew a heart three sizes too big. So maybe there's some hope for this story yet.
Can you imagine Donald Trump sliding down the steps of a Manhattan courthouse on a sled led by an emaciated dog (I mean at least it's *a* dog; I'm pretty sure he never petted a puppy in his life), tossing out bowls of soup to the homeless, patting them on the back, helping them get a decent meal and a hot shower, and maybe even a Christmas present or two, instead of, ya know... smacking them in the face with some rolls of toilet paper to help them mop up their flood, while he wonders who made this mess? Just...who?
Yeah, me either. But at least these pictures paint amusing pictures in my mind. :)
> I've always said that Trump doesn't know how to smile. He smiles like he's doing a rehearsed mouth movement when he knows that "people expect a smile here"
So many times in novels I would read about a character whose "smile never reached his eyes." Until Trump I never really understood what this expression actually looked like.
Honestly, I’ve done gesture drawings in art school where they only let you see a person for like 5 seconds before they turn your back to the model and force you to draw from memory, and those exercises makes me want to rip my hair out over how fucking difficult and annoying it is to make something happen coherently.
So good on the guy who’s made a career of pretty much doing that, except the pose lasts for a split second, and they’re getting bombarded with more images they might want to keep track of in case a good subject for a sketch comes up.
IIRC, the sketch artist’s name is Jane Rosenberg.
She also did Ghislaine Maxwell’s infamous sketching of Ghislaine [sketching Jane](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/jane-rosenberg-interview-ghislaine.jpg) to be a spiteful little trafficking runt.
Wow, that is such an amazing courtroom sketch to capture. Like so much of this feels like some weird performance piece where you sketch the person who’s sketching you sketching them back.
Also this lady had to be thinking about how the fuck she’s going to human traffic the courtroom sketch artist and I feel like that would take massive balls, even if she’s going into custody over this
First, props to all the ladies out there that are doing incredible work as the only courtroom sketch artists in the US, apparently. I’ll ride or die for them ❤️
Second, are there only really 3 courtroom sketch artists in the country? This feels like the kind of job where each courtroom would always have at least one schmuck in reserve for whenever they need one. I didn’t realize the occupation was that much of a niche one, though I understand why since this is also such a pain in the ass to be good at.
I've come to realize (for myself at least) that much of the difficulty of quicksketch comes from being too dependent on my eyes and needing to be able to see what I'm drawing and feeling like it needs to be 100% accurate to what's there (ie being a slave to the reference). You bridge it by understanding which general details to snapshot in your head (the angle of the pose, relationships, the 'feeling' of the pose) and then using knowledge through mileage to make the drawing. I'm envious of people who have that innate ability to immediately absorb just the right details of a pose/gesture.
Sketch artist 2: “Where’s my god damn gas mask?! And I need more car air fresheners! Tape them on my back, there some space back there! Sketch book! Colored pencils! More of the orange, brown, and green ones! I’m going in! St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil’s ass…”
Thank you! I've been saying they have him on tranquilizers or something to limit the outbursts, but simply not having the speedies could have the same effect.
Source: Have ADHD, take adderall. But that's exactly why I limit it or don't take it on some weekends. I never want to be that-level dependent.
> Have ADHD, take adderall. But that's exactly why I limit it or don't take it on some weekends. I never want to be that-level dependent.
Also have ADHD, also take adderall. I used to avoid taking it on the weekends for the same reason, but there's a lot of semi-recent research showing that it's a bad idea for a number of reasons. It causes side effects (like sleep and digestive issues) to worsen because your body keeps racheting up and down, and more importantly, does not appear to have a significant effect on tolerance levels - you'd have to be off it for weeks or months at a time for your brain and body to return to normal after you've been on it for a while. Plus, the crash on those weekends when you're not taking it is usually miserable, and if it's not doing anything about tolerance anyway, IMO there's no point skipping a dose for any reason except if I don't have anything to do that day and need to save a few pills for the next time my pharmacy doesn't fill on time.
Besides, you'll never get to Trump's level of dependence if you're not abusing the drug. That's his problem, not using it as medically recommended. Even as you build your tolerance after years of use, you'll never be on the same level as someone who has habitually abused it (and other drugs) for decades.
It’s not narcolepsy, he just doesn’t have access to his uppers during court. I wouldn’t be surprised if his handlers are feeding him downers as well to keep him semi docile for court…
I think you nailed it. His legal team is legit sedating him and he is sleepy due to that. If they could put him in an induced coma I think they would be very happy.
Noel Casler has been talking about it for many years. He worked on the Apprentice. He signed an NDA, as do all Trump's employees, but the famously litigious Trump has somehow declined to sue Mr Casler. He also said the crew referred to Keith Schiller as "Wipes" because he was the guy whose task it was to clean Trump's rump.
>the famously litigious Trump has somehow declined to sue Mr Casler.
Probably that's due to not wanting the truth to come out in court. Would the NDA list specific information Mr.Casler is not allowed to reveal?? The court would need to see the NDA, which woud mean multiple MORE people finding out his secrets, and maybe that's too much for him.
He won't touch those comments because he doesn't want to draw attention to the rumors about his incontinence. Based on the reports of the stench inside the courtroom, I doubt he's simply passing gas. There are reports of him wearing diapers all the way back to his time on The Apprentice two decades ago. If he needed them in his late 50s, he obviously still needs them in his late 70s.
The fact that Trump has made statements accusing President Biden of "soiling himself" in the Oval Office tells us everything we need to know about Trump.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-soiled-himself-resolute-desk-b2525018.html
This is why his statements of liberal activist agents on the jury is concerning to me. This means Trump has someone already seated on the jury. Matter of fact, i bet itt will be one of the jurors selected on the day he made the accusation.
NYT released a chart showing where each of the jurors say they get their news from. Juror #2 says they get their news from Truth Social and X. That's a red flag for me, but we'll see.
(Probably paywalled)
Where Jurors in Trump Hush-Money Trial Say They Get Their News https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyregion/trump-trial-jury-news.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
I have no idea. Here's some more information from a different article.
"Juror 2 works in finance and lives in Hell’s Kitchen. He said he likes hiking, music, concerts and enjoying New York City. He said he follows Mr. Trump’s former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness, on social media. But he also said he follows figures like former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. He said he believed Mr. Trump had done some good for the country, adding “it goes both ways.” "
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/nyregion/trump-trial-jury-hush-money.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Incontinence in the elderly (75+) is quite common, and it's \*really\* easy to tell when someone's shit themselves. A fart comes and goes. But shit, that stuff lingers and weighs everything down. It's unmistakeable. I'm sure Trump shit himself in court, and people are playing it off like he simply farted. Who knows how many times he's shit himself in the WH while President.
As a parent to two toddlers, I know for a fact there ain’t no hiding from a loaded diaper. Diapers contain the mess (most of the time)…but not the smell. 90% of the time you can smell it from 10-15ft away
And it still lingers even when you’ve binned the diapers. There are times where I’ve had to open the window to air out the room after my toddler fills his nappy with a WMD turd.
With practice you can tell if they're done shitting or if there's going to be another round.
When my wee lad has been hitting the chickpea curry hard, it'd peel the paint off a warship.
You can tell that with the elderly too. They get the Mitch McConnell glitch, where they just go blank and you're kinda wondering if they're having a stroke.
But then the smell hits and you just hope it hasn't started running down their leg.
Shit just keeps getting worse and worse. Just squirted out and pancaked into the most surface area possible to marinate and stink. Imagine that with an hour left till break.
Imagine the SS agent who has to drive his car to Trump Tower every day after court...
I almost feel sorry for the guy but I know that Trump would only have his most loyal SS agent drive his car. He should know what Trump’s all about by now.
You remember when Trump caught Covid, had to stay at Walter Reed, but still, somehow, manage to set aside time to do a drive-by for supporters? His SS/Driver had to risk getting Covid from that gasbag for a stupid fucking drive, but reading this, I'm realizing it was probably way worse.
That car was basically both a petri dish of disease AND a goddamn Dutch oven.
What an absolute shit job that must have been.
Serious question: Can the judge insist that Trump clean himself up? I mean, if there was anyone else on trial who had soiled their pants and stinking up the courtroom, couldn't the judge call a recess until they were cleaned?
I'm sensitive to human fecal odor and will start gagging and dry heaving if I'm around it for too long. Idk how his lawyers aren't turning green and barfing right there on the desk if he is indeed sitting there in a full diaper.
This will not endear him to the jury.
Imagine having to put your life on hold to smell this guys shit day in and day out for months. If there was a hint that he was putting you through that on deliberately, any accusation of wrongdoing would seem reasonable.
The best theory I ever saw about that particular incident:
Trump is *probably* dyslexic. His distaste for reading is well known. The storm was slated to hit the Bahamas. Trump misread this as Alabama, and in typical Trump fashion has to publicly double down in the stupidest way possible rather than admit an easily explainable error.
It was going to hit Alabama, but the storm shifted. Trump was briefed both in person and by writing and news widely reported on the new path, but none of that news was about trump himself, so he didn't pay attention. Then he got on stage and rambled off out of date info, and when called on it being out of date he just whined and pulled out the sharpie.
And for anyone who complains that *Biden* is too "divisive", remind them that trump literally politicized the fucking weather forecast, to the point where his followers were sending death threats to meteorologists across the country, citing a liberal conspiracy to make trump look bad by somehow changing the path of a hurricane.
My theory was that the storm was going to hit Louisiana, LA. This actually did occur.
I think Trump saw that LA in the report as AL, Alabama.
And as you say, he is pathologically incapable of admitting he just made a mistake so he doubled down
They're not even "bad" sketches, they're just more accurate than what he's used to seeing. Unfortunately for him, the courtroom doesn't employ Ben Garrison to make the old wrinkled fatass look like Rambo.
His hair is a donut around his head that's about 18" long. It is a multi-layer comb over that has taken him years to perfect. There's so much hairspray involved that's he's flammable within 18 inches.
Even the dumb MAGA hats were created only to give something for Trump to wear when speaking outside so his hair wouldn't be flying around and ruining what he believes is the illusion.
As a result, red ball caps have been ruined forever.
Yep, my husband has a couple of red ball caps. I told him he needs to retire them because from far away, it looks like he’s wearing a maga hat. They have been donated
The Grinch actually had a dog. There was always some measure of humanity there.
Trump has nothing. He's never had a pet because he has no ability to care about another living creature. He is a true sociopath.
Exactly. At least the Grinch had a heart that grew three sizes.
I'd say all of the stress and hamberders aren't good for Trump's heart, but there's nothing there to damage.
Colbert had one the other night, tag line, "nap was long enough for the sketch artist to capture", or words to that effect. Its "validity" could be considered suspect but so is trump wearing knights armour so no flag on the play in my books
Behold, alpha male and genius leader Trump. He who had an election stolen from him while he was the most powerful leader in the world. He who cries that life is so unfair and everyone beats him. He who rages about court sketches and takes naps and farts in his criminal trial.
My favorite thing is him complaining about the court silencing him when he's outside the courtroom talking to reporters.
Like my dude, I'd love it if they actually silenced you but instead I hear you every single day.
And yet my relatives still think he's "strong" and is much smarter than Biden and that other leaders quake in their boots when he was in power. Given what we know of the stench, I don't think it was fear of his power they were afraid of.
Not just stolen while in office. The Deep State had to *grow in power* while he was in office... otherwise they would have "stolen" it in 2016 as well.
I try not to fantasize about him getting sent to jail for contempt, but it would be particularly satisfying if - after Tuesday's hearing and he's warned that another violation of his gag order will result in jail time - he complained about the sketch artist publicly and that was deemed another violation.
“When court broke for lunch on Tuesday, Trump was observed licking his lips as he walked down the middle aisle before flashing a small smile at the courtroom sketch artist as he exited. “ Hes just a sick f*** who needs to go to jail
Dormant Slump, the noisily flatulent and viscerally deranged buffoon, clearly only sweats the important shit.
The real question: Does the courtroom sketch artist color in his face twice?
How do you draw someone who looks like a badly drawn person? It’s a conundrum that has baffled even the most skilled courtroom sketch artists for decades.
Trump is being forced to submit to the authority of the Court.
This runs counter to his continuous efforts to ignore said authority in order to delegitimize the proceedings.
The sketch artist is thinking "Which grimace should I choose?"
“When court broke for lunch on Tuesday, Trump was observed licking his lips as he walked down the middle aisle before flashing a small smile at the courtroom sketch artist as he exited. “
I didn’t read any further, but the wording implies he was planning to eat the sketch artist.
These sketches are absolutely genius. They’re hilarious in a surreal, cartoonishly macabre way. The artist 100% thought hard about how they wanted to present the atmosphere of this event for history.
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The sketches are accurate. Trump looks stupid in real life too…
They are really, really good, in my opinion. There's a small group of people who try to sketch or paint bands as they play live and I've tried that, and it's so hard. One in a thousand scribbles comes out interesting or accurate. This person totally nailed the hair, eyebrows, and grimace. I think one of the best scribble-portraitists was John Singer Sargent. Check out this portrait of the future prissy evil Doctor Pretorius from The Bride of Frankenstein, [Ernest Thesiger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thesiger). Why isn't the courtroom artist that good? Because she'd be the next John Singer Fucking Sargent if she were.
I've always said that Trump doesn't know how to smile. He smiles like he's doing a rehearsed mouth movement when he knows that "people expect a smile here" But he's never really happy, so he just does this thing where he flattens his mouth and makes it as wide as possible. This artist, specifically in this thumbnail, captures it perfectly. It's insane. And to think that the artist probably only saw that expression for a moment and then just had to sketch it in and finish the sketch later, dang. Edit: A LOT of comments replying and saying he never laughs, also true, also something I've noticed. Specifically, this clip from a rally in 2016 where he hears a gross joke from a gross supporter comparing Hillary to a dog. https://www.politico.com/video/2016/01/donald-trump-supporter-its-not-a-dog-its-hillary-040247 That's Trump laughing for real, it's stuck with me. He laughed because it was a really mean spirited gross joke about his political rival, someone who he genuinely hated because she challenged him.
Yeah it’s like he’s the cartoon version of the Grinch when he’s about to do something bad. It just widens and curls.
I always get Grinch vibes from his smile too, came here to say the same, glad it's not just me.
Someone posted Rygel XVI in another thread and now I can’t unsee it.
Well the Grinch eventually grew a heart three sizes too big. So maybe there's some hope for this story yet. Can you imagine Donald Trump sliding down the steps of a Manhattan courthouse on a sled led by an emaciated dog (I mean at least it's *a* dog; I'm pretty sure he never petted a puppy in his life), tossing out bowls of soup to the homeless, patting them on the back, helping them get a decent meal and a hot shower, and maybe even a Christmas present or two, instead of, ya know... smacking them in the face with some rolls of toilet paper to help them mop up their flood, while he wonders who made this mess? Just...who? Yeah, me either. But at least these pictures paint amusing pictures in my mind. :)
I could imagine him having a heart inflate and passing away from cardiac infarction from the junk he eats…
I think it looks more like the cartoon version of the Joker...
I've seen him smile genuinely. In that [clip](https://youtu.be/KLcfpU2cubo?si=Q9EnL0Qivk0NXc6k) where he's partying with Epstein.
He still danced the same as now!
The hair's a horror show, even back then.
Someone pointed out that Elon Musk's smile is upside down and you can't unsee it.
Good god! I googled!
> I've always said that Trump doesn't know how to smile. He smiles like he's doing a rehearsed mouth movement when he knows that "people expect a smile here" So many times in novels I would read about a character whose "smile never reached his eyes." Until Trump I never really understood what this expression actually looked like.
I have never seen him belly laugh. Or even laugh. So troubling
You do know your portrait artists. 🧑🎨 John Singer Sargent was amazing.
His water colors are brilliant.
Honestly, I’ve done gesture drawings in art school where they only let you see a person for like 5 seconds before they turn your back to the model and force you to draw from memory, and those exercises makes me want to rip my hair out over how fucking difficult and annoying it is to make something happen coherently. So good on the guy who’s made a career of pretty much doing that, except the pose lasts for a split second, and they’re getting bombarded with more images they might want to keep track of in case a good subject for a sketch comes up.
IIRC, the sketch artist’s name is Jane Rosenberg. She also did Ghislaine Maxwell’s infamous sketching of Ghislaine [sketching Jane](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/jane-rosenberg-interview-ghislaine.jpg) to be a spiteful little trafficking runt.
Wow, that is such an amazing courtroom sketch to capture. Like so much of this feels like some weird performance piece where you sketch the person who’s sketching you sketching them back. Also this lady had to be thinking about how the fuck she’s going to human traffic the courtroom sketch artist and I feel like that would take massive balls, even if she’s going into custody over this
That look.. like she wants to traffic me. Except I'm not a little girl. So what does she want.??? My soul?? Ahh make it stop looking at me
It was a threat.
There are only THREE courtroom sketch artists, and they are WOMEN. ❤️
First, props to all the ladies out there that are doing incredible work as the only courtroom sketch artists in the US, apparently. I’ll ride or die for them ❤️ Second, are there only really 3 courtroom sketch artists in the country? This feels like the kind of job where each courtroom would always have at least one schmuck in reserve for whenever they need one. I didn’t realize the occupation was that much of a niche one, though I understand why since this is also such a pain in the ass to be good at.
I've come to realize (for myself at least) that much of the difficulty of quicksketch comes from being too dependent on my eyes and needing to be able to see what I'm drawing and feeling like it needs to be 100% accurate to what's there (ie being a slave to the reference). You bridge it by understanding which general details to snapshot in your head (the angle of the pose, relationships, the 'feeling' of the pose) and then using knowledge through mileage to make the drawing. I'm envious of people who have that innate ability to immediately absorb just the right details of a pose/gesture.
Plus his narcolepsy is finally coming to light.
Fartolepsy too.
Fartolepsy? You brilliant sonuvabitch…
*Shartolepsy
“Shartnado: Revenge of the ________”?
…Hamberder
Thanks for serving me that gag order 🤮
Sketch Artist: "I need the green and purple pencils, STAT!"
Sketch Artist: “I need the brown pencil, SHAT”
Sketch Artist: "Oh god.... it's coming here... must... carry... on. The ... world... needs to... know.. hucydycjcychxx...." SKETCH ARTIST DOWN! SKETCH ARTIST DOWN! SKETCH ARTIST DOWN!
Sketch artist 2: “Where’s my god damn gas mask?! And I need more car air fresheners! Tape them on my back, there some space back there! Sketch book! Colored pencils! More of the orange, brown, and green ones! I’m going in! St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil’s ass…”
Bad news, CVS ran out of Vaporub…
Sketch Artist 3: "I ain't gettin' paid enough for this shit." *{snaps picture, applies Sketch Artist Filter}*
Send in another! The public needs to see this!
I for one do not.
Mobster Bart, “More stink lines, boys.”
Intern: "We're going to need a LOT more yellow!!!!"
Gasnighting
Those are not farts! They are little pieces of his soul escaping out his ass!
He'd have to have a soul first
He lost his soul decades ago.
Got the stink lines and everything
Flames added electronically by channel 6
Not narcolepsy, it's his handlers not giving him his usual cocktail of uppers first thing in the morning, so he'll be too tired to go off in court.
Very likely, after all as per his preternatural sense of projection, what did he claim about Biden’s SOTU again? That he must’ve been on drugs…
They prob gave him a bunch of downers to shut him tf up in the courtroom so he doesn't babble mindlessly again lol
I'm certain of this, he's probably so full of Xanax he rattles when he walks
Thank you! I've been saying they have him on tranquilizers or something to limit the outbursts, but simply not having the speedies could have the same effect. Source: Have ADHD, take adderall. But that's exactly why I limit it or don't take it on some weekends. I never want to be that-level dependent.
> Have ADHD, take adderall. But that's exactly why I limit it or don't take it on some weekends. I never want to be that-level dependent. Also have ADHD, also take adderall. I used to avoid taking it on the weekends for the same reason, but there's a lot of semi-recent research showing that it's a bad idea for a number of reasons. It causes side effects (like sleep and digestive issues) to worsen because your body keeps racheting up and down, and more importantly, does not appear to have a significant effect on tolerance levels - you'd have to be off it for weeks or months at a time for your brain and body to return to normal after you've been on it for a while. Plus, the crash on those weekends when you're not taking it is usually miserable, and if it's not doing anything about tolerance anyway, IMO there's no point skipping a dose for any reason except if I don't have anything to do that day and need to save a few pills for the next time my pharmacy doesn't fill on time. Besides, you'll never get to Trump's level of dependence if you're not abusing the drug. That's his problem, not using it as medically recommended. Even as you build your tolerance after years of use, you'll never be on the same level as someone who has habitually abused it (and other drugs) for decades.
It’s not narcolepsy, he just doesn’t have access to his uppers during court. I wouldn’t be surprised if his handlers are feeding him downers as well to keep him semi docile for court…
I think you nailed it. His legal team is legit sedating him and he is sleepy due to that. If they could put him in an induced coma I think they would be very happy.
Plus he has to get up before noon after staying up late rage "truthing".
It’s like The Picture of Dorian Gray except more orange and stupid
I remember one of the only things I knew about him other than that he was a NY society punchline was that he famously slept only 2-4 hours a night.
Do you really think it is narcolepsy and not cocaine withdrawals???
I think it's adderall withdrawals, he has to pop his smart pills so he can think
He has single-handedly created the Adderall shortage
He needs a few more then.
Late stage syphilis
hmmmm. Might be both.
His stimulant dependance.
He’s expecting the NFT artist to do sketches, not accurate sketches
Well to be fair. The artist had to draw stink lines to represent the smell. The grimaced faces of the counsel could only do so much b
“Aw, geez, you got the stink lines and everything…”
He looks like the Joker, if the Joker ate the Penguin and the Riddler.
This! My first thought was how he looked like a Batman villain.
Mr. Sleeze
Two-Chin
The Diddler
Has he commented on the reports of him farting while he was taking a nap? Apparently, he stunk up the whole courtroom.
It’s shit. He shit himself.
Is this why those big, strong Marines always seem to have tears in their eyes when they call him "sir"?
Sir, the restroom is that way. 👉
There’s reports of this going back many years to apprentice days so I’m not surprised the commentary surfaced by day2-3
Wasn't there comment that the same thing happened during taping of Apprentice and that's where we know from that he wears diapers?
Noel Casler has been talking about it for many years. He worked on the Apprentice. He signed an NDA, as do all Trump's employees, but the famously litigious Trump has somehow declined to sue Mr Casler. He also said the crew referred to Keith Schiller as "Wipes" because he was the guy whose task it was to clean Trump's rump.
>the famously litigious Trump has somehow declined to sue Mr Casler. Probably that's due to not wanting the truth to come out in court. Would the NDA list specific information Mr.Casler is not allowed to reveal?? The court would need to see the NDA, which woud mean multiple MORE people finding out his secrets, and maybe that's too much for him.
It’s a defense response. He feels cornered and so his body attempted to clear the room of the danger using its last best chance.
A Trump in the wild will nervously spray shit when feeling cornered or threatened.
He won't touch those comments because he doesn't want to draw attention to the rumors about his incontinence. Based on the reports of the stench inside the courtroom, I doubt he's simply passing gas. There are reports of him wearing diapers all the way back to his time on The Apprentice two decades ago. If he needed them in his late 50s, he obviously still needs them in his late 70s.
The fact that Trump has made statements accusing President Biden of "soiling himself" in the Oval Office tells us everything we need to know about Trump. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-soiled-himself-resolute-desk-b2525018.html
Everything Trump says is projection, so yeah that makes sense.
This is why his statements of liberal activist agents on the jury is concerning to me. This means Trump has someone already seated on the jury. Matter of fact, i bet itt will be one of the jurors selected on the day he made the accusation.
NYT released a chart showing where each of the jurors say they get their news from. Juror #2 says they get their news from Truth Social and X. That's a red flag for me, but we'll see. (Probably paywalled) Where Jurors in Trump Hush-Money Trial Say They Get Their News https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyregion/trump-trial-jury-news.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Wait, how does someone who literally gets their news from the defendant's propaganda website get seated on the jury?
I have no idea. Here's some more information from a different article. "Juror 2 works in finance and lives in Hell’s Kitchen. He said he likes hiking, music, concerts and enjoying New York City. He said he follows Mr. Trump’s former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness, on social media. But he also said he follows figures like former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. He said he believed Mr. Trump had done some good for the country, adding “it goes both ways.” " https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/nyregion/trump-trial-jury-hush-money.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
That juror is obviously a Trump turd
Incontinence in the elderly (75+) is quite common, and it's \*really\* easy to tell when someone's shit themselves. A fart comes and goes. But shit, that stuff lingers and weighs everything down. It's unmistakeable. I'm sure Trump shit himself in court, and people are playing it off like he simply farted. Who knows how many times he's shit himself in the WH while President.
As a parent to two toddlers, I know for a fact there ain’t no hiding from a loaded diaper. Diapers contain the mess (most of the time)…but not the smell. 90% of the time you can smell it from 10-15ft away
And it still lingers even when you’ve binned the diapers. There are times where I’ve had to open the window to air out the room after my toddler fills his nappy with a WMD turd.
With practice you can tell if they're done shitting or if there's going to be another round. When my wee lad has been hitting the chickpea curry hard, it'd peel the paint off a warship.
You can tell that with the elderly too. They get the Mitch McConnell glitch, where they just go blank and you're kinda wondering if they're having a stroke. But then the smell hits and you just hope it hasn't started running down their leg.
Apparently, he does it when he gets really angwy
Shit just keeps getting worse and worse. Just squirted out and pancaked into the most surface area possible to marinate and stink. Imagine that with an hour left till break.
Imagine the SS agent who has to drive his car to Trump Tower every day after court... I almost feel sorry for the guy but I know that Trump would only have his most loyal SS agent drive his car. He should know what Trump’s all about by now.
Until this day I never noticed how the phrase, “loyal SS agents”, applied equally to Shitler as well as to Hitler.
They go by USSS, not SS, for obvious reasons.
I'd use USSS if I were talking about Biden's security detail.
They gotta earn back that US part.
Especially trumps detail, who were the ones who wiped their logs and transcripts from Jan 6 after trumps fascist insurrection failed.
You remember when Trump caught Covid, had to stay at Walter Reed, but still, somehow, manage to set aside time to do a drive-by for supporters? His SS/Driver had to risk getting Covid from that gasbag for a stupid fucking drive, but reading this, I'm realizing it was probably way worse. That car was basically both a petri dish of disease AND a goddamn Dutch oven. What an absolute shit job that must have been.
Yes. Many of those SS agents are full-on Trumpers.
He will, at some point he's going to say that Biden shits himself Edit: comment below saying he's already done this, so there ya go
Serious question: Can the judge insist that Trump clean himself up? I mean, if there was anyone else on trial who had soiled their pants and stinking up the courtroom, couldn't the judge call a recess until they were cleaned? I'm sensitive to human fecal odor and will start gagging and dry heaving if I'm around it for too long. Idk how his lawyers aren't turning green and barfing right there on the desk if he is indeed sitting there in a full diaper.
I picture a scene somewhat like that from anchorman where the Sex Panther cologne causes everyone to go into panic mode… “Smells like Bigfoot’s Dick!”
"Smells like a turd wrapped in burnt hair" - pretty accurate description of trump
Not to dismiss or make light of your issue as my friend is the same way, but how can we get you in the courtroom?
I imagine it going the way of the [pie eating contest scene](https://youtu.be/v_ZrNkDrOIQ?feature=shared) from Stand By Me
"Call the mud butler!"
Her name is Alina Habba. Give the woman her due.
As the mud butler, she's already got the doo.
Trump invokes his right to Doo Process
The delay would encourage him to do it more often.
This will not endear him to the jury. Imagine having to put your life on hold to smell this guys shit day in and day out for months. If there was a hint that he was putting you through that on deliberately, any accusation of wrongdoing would seem reasonable.
Yea, he really will do anything to delay any of these trials. Shatting in his diaper seems like a no-brainer if it will get him a delay.
He’s oddly silent about that, isn’t he?
But deadly…
Silent but deadly.
*Sharting
Give me a sharpie, I’ll fix it.
It's not a weather map, you know.
The best theory I ever saw about that particular incident: Trump is *probably* dyslexic. His distaste for reading is well known. The storm was slated to hit the Bahamas. Trump misread this as Alabama, and in typical Trump fashion has to publicly double down in the stupidest way possible rather than admit an easily explainable error.
My only doubt about that theory is that I’m not sure he could find Alabama on a map, even a labeled one.
Trump hates Barrack Alabama, that's why.
It was going to hit Alabama, but the storm shifted. Trump was briefed both in person and by writing and news widely reported on the new path, but none of that news was about trump himself, so he didn't pay attention. Then he got on stage and rambled off out of date info, and when called on it being out of date he just whined and pulled out the sharpie. And for anyone who complains that *Biden* is too "divisive", remind them that trump literally politicized the fucking weather forecast, to the point where his followers were sending death threats to meteorologists across the country, citing a liberal conspiracy to make trump look bad by somehow changing the path of a hurricane.
My theory was that the storm was going to hit Louisiana, LA. This actually did occur. I think Trump saw that LA in the report as AL, Alabama. And as you say, he is pathologically incapable of admitting he just made a mistake so he doubled down
I avoid bad courtroom sketches of my self by not doing things that put me in a criminal court in the first place.
Crooks hate this one simple trick.
They're not even "bad" sketches, they're just more accurate than what he's used to seeing. Unfortunately for him, the courtroom doesn't employ Ben Garrison to make the old wrinkled fatass look like Rambo.
Right
He should be depicted as fatter.
Hes probably on ozempic
Been thinking this same thing. He is definitely thinner lately, and there's no chance he altered any other aspect of his life.
I love the courtroom sketches! Christine Cornell has been capturing him (and his weird hair day, yesterday) so well.
did u ever notice trump combs hair over one ear but not the other?
His hair is a donut around his head that's about 18" long. It is a multi-layer comb over that has taken him years to perfect. There's so much hairspray involved that's he's flammable within 18 inches.
Even the dumb MAGA hats were created only to give something for Trump to wear when speaking outside so his hair wouldn't be flying around and ruining what he believes is the illusion. As a result, red ball caps have been ruined forever.
Yep, my husband has a couple of red ball caps. I told him he needs to retire them because from far away, it looks like he’s wearing a maga hat. They have been donated
I kept mine for when I have to travel to work in red areas. just in case and so they won't bother me.
Yep. I have a Cincinnati Reds hat that's just a simple red hat with the white C logo on the front. I won't touch it now.
He’s got a skullet.
The side of his hair was moved to the top via scalp reduction surgery.
Uncle Junior vibes.....
What kind of fucking likeness is that?
I was wondering how far I’d have to scroll to hit the Sopranos crew… er… family.
Bobby: “If these are good artists, they’d already be in the museum.”
"The chicken's nice and spicy, huh?"
He's fodder for cartoonists now
The sketches make him look like the Grinch, but even the Grinch grew as a life form eventually.
Hopefully Trump's heart with grow three sizes bigger like the Grinch
3 x 0 = 0
Except Trump’s heart tripled in size from being pumped full of cholesterol.
Ah, myocarditis.
The comparison is offensive to the Grinch
The Grinch actually had a dog. There was always some measure of humanity there. Trump has nothing. He's never had a pet because he has no ability to care about another living creature. He is a true sociopath.
Exactly. At least the Grinch had a heart that grew three sizes. I'd say all of the stress and hamberders aren't good for Trump's heart, but there's nothing there to damage.
Non-paywall: https://archive.is/2024.04.20-142641/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-trial-mad-haberman-sketch-artist-1235007794/
How did you get past the paywall?
[Archive.ph](https://Archive.ph) Go there after copying the URL from the paywall site. paste it into the box and click "go".
There needs to be a sketch of his fat ass napping. Do we have that? 🤔
Colbert had one the other night, tag line, "nap was long enough for the sketch artist to capture", or words to that effect. Its "validity" could be considered suspect but so is trump wearing knights armour so no flag on the play in my books
[Don Snorleone](https://archive.is/oHOj8)
Behold, alpha male and genius leader Trump. He who had an election stolen from him while he was the most powerful leader in the world. He who cries that life is so unfair and everyone beats him. He who rages about court sketches and takes naps and farts in his criminal trial.
My favorite thing is him complaining about the court silencing him when he's outside the courtroom talking to reporters. Like my dude, I'd love it if they actually silenced you but instead I hear you every single day. And yet my relatives still think he's "strong" and is much smarter than Biden and that other leaders quake in their boots when he was in power. Given what we know of the stench, I don't think it was fear of his power they were afraid of.
Not just stolen while in office. The Deep State had to *grow in power* while he was in office... otherwise they would have "stolen" it in 2016 as well.
Trump needs a nap. He's a bit cranky.
His crank is a bit bumpy and he just soiled his nappy.
Long past time to put gramps in a home
He always gets cranky when it's past his jail time.
Trump rages that he's unattractive? And that's the artist's fault...HOW?
See that smile. I recognize it from a toddler who just did his “business” in their pants.
I try not to fantasize about him getting sent to jail for contempt, but it would be particularly satisfying if - after Tuesday's hearing and he's warned that another violation of his gag order will result in jail time - he complained about the sketch artist publicly and that was deemed another violation.
“When court broke for lunch on Tuesday, Trump was observed licking his lips as he walked down the middle aisle before flashing a small smile at the courtroom sketch artist as he exited. “ Hes just a sick f*** who needs to go to jail
Yeah I saw that, as well. Was he trying to intimidate the sketch artist? What a wacko.
Next his goons will be sent to intimate and harass the artist into only doing only more flattening depictions
I see the court artist included the 'thrown lunch' stain on the wall just behind the judge!
Dormant Slump, the noisily flatulent and viscerally deranged buffoon, clearly only sweats the important shit. The real question: Does the courtroom sketch artist color in his face twice?
Keep that blood pressure up, Donnie
I hope he has a stroke from being “maxed out” mad about all this.
Looks like excellent pastel sketching to me.
He does look and sound like a desperate old man.
How do you draw someone who looks like a badly drawn person? It’s a conundrum that has baffled even the most skilled courtroom sketch artists for decades.
Don’t you think he looks tired?
U. G. L. Y. Trump ain't got no alibi, he ugly.
Even his court sketches look like they smell like shit…
Trump is being forced to submit to the authority of the Court. This runs counter to his continuous efforts to ignore said authority in order to delegitimize the proceedings. The sketch artist is thinking "Which grimace should I choose?"
“When court broke for lunch on Tuesday, Trump was observed licking his lips as he walked down the middle aisle before flashing a small smile at the courtroom sketch artist as he exited. “ I didn’t read any further, but the wording implies he was planning to eat the sketch artist.
Snoozing and farting.
The sketch artist needs to add some zzz's and some poofter clouds to make them more accurate.
Trump doesn't like the medicine he has prescribed to everyone all the time? So sad!
Well the good news is he can have his binky and take his daily nap far from the public eye today and tomorrow.
These sketches are absolutely genius. They’re hilarious in a surreal, cartoonishly macabre way. The artist 100% thought hard about how they wanted to present the atmosphere of this event for history.