‘Dumb as f---’: Trump forced to hear mean tweets about himself in court

good evening from New York I'm Chris Hayes Wednesday is Wednesday, which must be Donald Trump's favorite work day because his criminal trial in New York for election interference is not in session not on Wednesday, so on Wednesdays he doesn't have to sit a

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room for eight hours where he has to remain silent and can't control what happens and on Wednesdays he doesn't have to listen while his lawyers and the judge read into the record the various nasty things people say about him in the real world because that en Exactly what happened yesterday in Judge Juan Maran's Manhattan

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room, now again for any American, I think other than Trump

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, speaking negatively about Donald Trump's social media posts is the most mundane thing imaginable .

The fact is that he is polarizing and unpopular. two things are true about him, more people dislike him than people by a margin of almost 12%, although that has been higher in the past, it is nothing new and again, in both 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump lost the popular vote in this great complicated country of ours by a significant margin by 2.8 votes in 2016 by 7 million votes in 2020 no election was that close to be completely honest in his elections Trump has shown what Vanity Fair calls the loss of contact with Trump, candidate after candidate backed by the fall, but because That victory in 2016 was made possible by the undemocratic whim of our electoral system, many people came to believe, and this narrative persists, that there is a small group of elites who don't like Donald Trump, real people love them and that perception just exploded in a place where the realest people congregate, where else can you find a representative sample of all the people registered to vote that have a driver's license or pay income taxes in a particular region than in a courtroom jury room this week in Manhattan Criminal Court? real people showed up for jury duty as it is their constitutional privilege and civic duty, where many of them were considered for the first trial of a former president, a group of them told the court from the beginning that there was no way that I could be part of this jury.

I could be impartial about this man, others who made it through the initial rounds of questioning said, "I think I can do it. I think I would be impartial." They then had their social media posts about the former president read aloud in the official record while they and Trump sat and listened, it was kind of like a night Jimmy Kimmel Bad Tweets skin here are just a few examples taken directly from the court transcript cites good news Trump lost his court battle and his illegal travel ban get him out and lock him up watch out for stupid

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djt's posts also included memes like one described by Trump's look that Todd Blanch cites as a image of President Obama and President Trump and says "I don't think this is what they

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t by Orange is the New Black," said another juror, Blanch. posted a one minute and 30 second AI-generated video titled I'm Dumb Like F Trump 2024 Of course, there were some people on the jury who also seemed to support Donald Trump, like the man who told the judge he would love to serve. for New York and one of our great presidents, couldn't it?

He has a job he has to go to and that man is too representative of real, American people, a county, in fact, Manhattan, New York County, New York, New York, where 85,000 people voted for Donald. Trump in 2020 of 700,000, that's what Donald Trump had to endure yesterday. Now keep in mind that this is a person whose entire life, in some ways, revolves around an unhealthy and destructive desire for praise and revenge against those who dare to say anything negative. About him, that desire is so strong that he has an omnipresent helper who reportedly follows Trump and I quote him here because it's almost unbelievable that a wireless printer would provide him with a continuous stream of good news from the Internet, presumably she followed him. to the band in Harlem yesterday after a long day in court where it wouldn't be crazy to suspect that Trump's staff might have instigated these opportunities among the crowd.

Well, yes, Harlem Bodega is famous for the spontaneous Trump crowds that break out in four more years of opportunity. Trump's fragile ego was further on display today in a social media rant against Jimmy Kimmel, who disparaged him at the Oscars last month after Trump attacked him. Remember he did that in the middle of the performance and according to Trump's quote, stupid Kimmel still hasn't recovered from his horrendous attack. performance, especially when he showed that he suffered from TDS, commonly known as Trump Derangement Syndrome. He then confused Jimmy Kimmel with alpacino for about four more paragraphs in that post, which now anyone will tell you and I'll be the first to announce.

Of course, Manhattan isn't exactly representative of all of America, but it's also home to over a million real people, real American citizens, and all of our diversity and complexity, and the people who don't like Donald Trump are just as Americans like that. who, in fact, and again an obvious but underappreciated point, are the majority, as the early days of a former president's first criminal trial have reminded us. Hello everyone, MSNBC has a new and improved app. They will receive alerts and analysis in real time. blogs in-depth essays featured videos and the best coverage of the 2024 election download the new MSNBC app here's how to do it tap the App Store on your phone press search in the bottom right corner type MSNBC click the MSNBC app you click get or on the cloud icon and enjoy it