Noodles

Donald Trump has been inside a half-dozen courthouses over the past year, but he had a new experience walking into a downtown Manhattan courtroom Monday morning: a half-empty room.

The point that I am taking from ALL of this, and the point that I believe reporters intend to make, is that this is an unknown world to Trump. It is disorienting and destabilizing.

The former president slowly walked through the cavernous and dingy courtroom, past six empty rows of benches…

Trump brags about his crowds. They are his energy. No adoring low-lifes today—or for the next two months-, no ornate, tacky White Ballroom and Gold Ballroom: “cavernous and dingy”. It is a world literally unknown to him.

The vacant rows served as a reminder to Trump that he’s in a different setting now that he’s a criminal defendant for the first time.

Yes.

Trump only spoke three times during Monday’s session…

When has Trump ever spoken only three times during several waking (mostly) hours? Never.

Trump didn’t have a platform inside the courtroom…

Nope.

“It looks like the judge does not allow me to escape this scam.”…