On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump woke to a day off from his criminal trial on charges of covering up election interference via falsifying business records, a/k/a his hush money trial. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t on his mind.
For one thing, the multiply-indicted former president seems to have watched Jimmy Kimmel’s Tuesday-night monologue about his behavior, which included referring to him as “Ebeneezer Snooze,” in reference to reports Trump fell asleep in court, and musing over whether Trump’s attorneys are tranquilizing him.
There was plenty more in the monologue to hurt Trump’s feelings, and you can watch that clip below, but Trump went off about it in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Trump seems to be still smarting from when Kimmel, at the Academy Awards, read aloud one of Trump’s posts, to mockery and laughter from the audience. That’s not to say, though, that the memory-deficient defendant remembered any of the details.
In one long, angry, post, Trump mixed up Kimmel’s mockery with actor Al Pacino’s error, in which he forgot to list nominees before naming the winner of Best Picture. He seems to recall, instead, Kimmel announcing “Picture of the Year” and forgetting to say “and the winner is” ahead of it. His full post is at the bottom of this story, but in part, he said:
“Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, “Picture of the Year.””
Scroll to the bottom to also watch Kimmel read off Trump’s review of his Oscar performance on-stage, and to see the Pacino moment that Trump seemed to mix up.
Trump wasn’t done raging, though. He also learned something this week that his lawyers should perhaps have explained to him sooner, or that he perhaps should have been paying enough attention to have heard.
In the jury selection process, the court will dismiss any juror who is deemed to (or admits) having strong enough feelings about the case that they’d be unable to judge the defendant fairly, but both the prosecution and the defense get a limited number of strikes they can use to eliminate a juror that they believe would be detrimental to them.
Trump for some reason thought the strikes were unlimited. He wrote:
“I thought STRIKES were supposed to be “unlimited” when we were picking our jury? I was then told we only had 10, not nearly enough when we were purposely given the 2nd Worst Venue in the Country.”
So far, in two days of jury selection, 7 jurors have been found and sworn in. Twelve jurors and six alternates are the goal. Imagine how long that would take if Trump could reject an unlimited number of potential jurors!
He’s also moved on from insisting that President Joe Biden should be charged with some unidentified and imaginary crimes, while he himself should have “presidential immunity” from all charges, to suggesting that Biden is on his side. He declared, in part:
“Crooked Joe Biden wants PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY to be protected perhaps more than any other living (barely!) individual because if it isn’t, and having absolutely nothing to do with me, he will surely be Indicted and Tried…A President should not be placed in that position…”
Trump has been relatively quiet in court, other than the one incident where Judge Juan Merchan had to warn him not to attempt to intimidate jurors, so it seems he’s letting it all out now that he has a day off.
Below, see the monologue that had Trump in a rage Wednesday morning.
Here’s Trump’s full tantrum.
Here’s the moment in which Trump thought Al Pacino was also Jimmy Kimmel.
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