Donald Trump Is Used to the Finer Things in Life. At the Courthouse, ‘He’s
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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/Former President Donald Trump is struggling to hold it together in court, said his former strategist David Urban on CNN Thursday — and one of the reasons could be desperation for a Diet Coke
Cold and without Diet Coke, former president muddles through the dreary life of a defendant
Former President Donald Trump, seen in a reflection, spoke with reporters after a day of jury selection at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. Jabin Botsford/Press Pool
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The real estate tycoon and political star who once held the nation’s nuclear codes now spends four days a week confined to a drab Manhattan courtroom with harsh lighting and poor climate control.
Donald Trump, a billionaire accustomed to jet-setting between adoring campaign rallies and his Florida estate, has spent two weeks—with as many as six to go—sitting unhappily at the defense table in the city where he built his real-estate empire and his 2016 White House campaign. Though he fumes daily about the 34 New York felony charges he’s facing, the small indignities of being on trial are what appear to bother him most.
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Miserable.’
Former President Donald Trump is struggling to hold it together in court, said his former strategist David Urban on CNN Thursday — and one of the reasons could be desperation for a Diet Coke.
Since the Manhattan hush money trial began, the former president has been caught on multiple occasions falling asleep in the middle of the trial, and coverage of this has enraged him. Earlier Thursday, he posted a denial that he was falling asleep, insisting that he was just resting his “beautiful blue eyes.”
“I was in the courtroom the other day and I saw him lean back sometimes closing — I saw that, I’m actually just going to take this very seriously for one second and say, it did not appear to me that he was ever sleeping,” said anchor Erin Burnett.
“He was paying attention in various positions. However, the way he chooses to do this is to focus on his ‘beautiful blue eyes’ and the optics. He cares about the optics.”
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“Yeah,” said Urban. “Look, it’s — that’s a classic Trump tweet, right, about this. He’s trying to make light of the situation a little bit and say, look, I’m not sleeping, although I have to say, sitting there for hours and hours and hours without a Diet Coke, it’s probably killing him.”
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In fact, he continued, that lack of Diet Coke could be affecting him more than people realize.
“He’s usually, I’m sure, very caffeinated during the day,” said Urban. “And is, as folks who know, drink Cokes and Diet Cokes, if you’re missing one or two a day, let alone, I’m sure he’s missing probably about ten a day. It’s probably rough.”
