Opinion | Trump’s sleepiness in court shows his weakness and vulnerability

The news media used to monitor Twitter (now known as X) 24/7 to catch the latest utterance from four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump. These days, the press obsessively keeps tabs on Trump’s nap schedule in a Manhattan courtroom.

On the very first day of Trump’s falsifying business records trial, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported, “Even as a judge was hearing arguments on last-minute issues in a criminal case that centers on salacious allegations and threatens to upend his bid for the presidency, Mr. Trump appeared to nod off a few times, his mouth going slack and his head drooping onto his chest.” (That earned her a glare from Trump.)