With a presidential marketing campaign to run, a quartet of felony circumstances to defend himself in, a Fact Social account to are likely to, and a Mar-a-Lago set listing that gained’t play itself, Donald Trump has quite a bit of obligations on his plate. In the meantime, he solely sleeps 4 or 5 hours an evening, by his personal admission. So he was certain to nod off at an inopportune time at some level, and in the present day, it was in a Manhattan courtroom throughout day one of his hush cash trial.

“Trump seems to be sleeping,” the New York Occasions’ Maggie Haberman reported this afternoon. “His head retains dropping down, and his mouth goes slack.” Later, talking to CNN, she advised Jake Tapper, “He seemed to be asleep. And routinely his head would fall down.… He didn’t take note of a notice his lawyer Todd Blanche handed him.”

Cameras, sadly, will not be allowed within the courtroom, so we don’t have footage of all of this. However you don’t simply must take Haberman’s phrase for it. Erik Uebelacker, a reporter for Courthouse Information, noticed the identical factor:

As did Regulation360’s Stewart Bishop:

Whereas Trump’s supporters will presumably see his dozing as an indication of masculinity or one thing (“Solely actual males go to sleep throughout their hush cash trials!”), as New York journal factors out, it’s a nasty look not simply because of the plain however for one very Trump-specific purpose:

“Sleepy Joe” was at all times a low-energy Trump nickname. Donald Trump’s derisive title for Joe Biden by no means had the zing of “Crooked Hillary” or “Liddle Marco,” and it was too much like different Trump nicknames like “Sleepin’ Bob” Casey and “Sleepy Eyes” Chuck Todd. Now there’s a brand new downside with it that nobody anticipated: It’s straightforward to show it again on “Sleepy Don” when he nods off throughout a felony trial over hush cash funds he allegedly made to cowl up an affair with a porn star.

The excellent news is that he’ll have tons of down time over the following few weeks to provide you with one other nickname for the president.