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Trump Mocked for Dozing Off During Son Don Jr.’s ‘Clueless and Boring’ Speech at RNC

For a guy who calls his opponent "Sleepy Joe," this idiot sure snoozes a lot in public.

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The final night of the Republican National Convention is tonight. I hope Trump got plenty of rest for his glorious coronation as the Republican Pope.

I have a feeling he might have, though. I think he snuck in a few extra Z’s during speeches from both his son Don Junior and his running mate JD Vance. I mean, we’re not supposed to report that he WAS sleeping, only that it LOOKED like he was sleeping, but I mean… You guys can decide for yourselves.

Relaxed face. Eyes closed. Slumped to one side — he seems to favor his right.

Donald Trump is doing himself no favors in this campaign after what should have been a slam-dunk win when someone tried to shoot him.

It’s not like Junior didn’t bring up the “assassination attempt” during his speech. But Daddy seemed to be snoozing:

Then, during the speech by the other man of the hour, his running mate JD Vance, Trump looked like he couldn’t keep his eyes open again.

Now, I don’t want to harp on the fact that he literally uses the word “sleepy” to describe Joe Biden, but… Well, yes I do. The irony is just too much.

And we’re not talking about one network showing these angles just to make Trump look bad. Sure, that first tweet is footage from CNN, and Trump’s fans think anything to the left of Sean Hannity is Marxist. But that second one is from Fox, which means nobody could find any pictures of Trump during Vance’s speech where he didn’t look like he was taking a nap.

Ouch.

We can’t actually know whether Trump’s drowsy behavior is related to any injuries he may have sustained during the shooting last weekend, since he still hasn’t released any reports or medical records.

My guess is that he never plans to release any such thing, and that his injury is far less severe than he has described it as. The bandage will come off, and he’ll say “Look what the world’s greatest doctors were able to do! It barely looks like anything happened at all!”

Maybe he’s just tired from having to think up lies on the spot like that.

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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