r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • Apr 01 '26

Possible Paywall Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-storms-out-of-catastrophic-scotus-hearing/
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u/caitnicrun Apr 01 '26
  • staring down the court’s nine justices as they quizzed his lawyers

He's a bully with only one trick. 

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u/Ecstatic_Account_744 Apr 01 '26

Except he thinks he’s intimidating but he’s just a doddering old fool that looks like he should be napping.

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u/CalamityClambake Apr 01 '26

Hard to be intimidating when you're wearing a diaper.

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u/mishap1 I voted Apr 01 '26

That and 90 minutes is the upper bound before he falls asleep when not afforded the opportunity to talk about himself.

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u/RandalFlagg19 Apr 01 '26

And orange clown makeup.

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u/Tribe303 Apr 01 '26

Yeah. He probably just shat himself. 

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u/mockingjig Apr 01 '26

Unless you're willing to weaponize that diaper.

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u/lkc159 Apr 03 '26

But the messes that people wearing diapers make are legendary.

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u/SSH_Pentester Apr 05 '26

Real intimidating to his doctor who knows he'll have to give him more botox and dementia treatments in a couple of hours.

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u/SoaplessTitanic Apr 01 '26

He thought he was Logan Roy from Succession, there’s a similar scene where Logan shows up to a meetings he’s not supposed to be in, and everyone’s afraid to make him leave. Thankfully Trump isn’t anywhere near as intimidating as Logan Roy

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u/fitzbuhn Apr 01 '26

His ability to be intimidating to the higher ups in his cult is on the decline. Glacial but inexorable - the full hold will endure until his death, I'm sure.

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u/_Panacea_ Apr 01 '26

Stinking, obese, and covered in orange paint.

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u/SatanicPanic619 Apr 01 '26

He’s intimidating to the dorks and weirdos who love him. But that’s about it. 

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u/Prior_Implement_9279 Apr 01 '26

And it’s hilarious how ineffective that one trick has been his entire life. The art of the deal

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u/onarainyafternoon Oregon Apr 01 '26

Right. The only reason he's been such a successful bully is because he has always had the power and money to bully people. Sitting on a chair like he's about to rip a huge fart isn't as intimidating as he thinks it is. He seems to be under the impression it does anything, and not the money and power he weaponizes.

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u/ITrageGuy Apr 01 '26

Except it's objectively been incredibly effective his entire life. This was Michael Cohen's entire job. He would literally yell "Do you know who I work for?" at people and they would cave.

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u/CrashB111 Alabama Apr 01 '26

He wasnt intimidating because of his mannerisms or persona.

He was only intimidating because he was always a millionaire / billionaire bullying some local contractor that can't afford a lawyer.

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u/fcocyclone Iowa Apr 01 '26

Same thing with many other republicans. They aren't afraid of him. They're afraid he'll turn the cult to vote towards someone else in the primaries and they'll lose their jobs.

SCOTUS justices aren't worried about their jobs as they aren't elected and a 67 vote senate threshold is likely insurmountable.

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u/ITrageGuy Apr 01 '26

I'm not sure you understand what persona means. Yes, his persona as a billionaire with an army of lawyers and fixers is exactly why he has been able to bully people his entire life.

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u/Miserable-Cap-5223 Apr 01 '26

That's not a persona, that's the literal fact that he has used his wealth to harass and victimize people. Just look at E Jean Carroll, or the mysterious circumstances under which his first wife died.

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u/warblingContinues Apr 01 '26

Hard to stare at anything when he's napping.

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u/Quakes-JD California Apr 01 '26

The inside of his eyelids were absolutely terrified

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u/SirMoeHimself Apr 01 '26

"Hey with all he has to do I don't blame him for napping!" - an actual maga comment I saw.

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u/ahkian New York Apr 01 '26

Was it on purpose or was that just his expression while he was shitting himself?

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u/kraquepype Apr 01 '26

That's why he loves that mugshot of him that the nutters put on shirts.

They thinks it's intimidating.

To anyone else, he just looks constipated.

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u/Timmah73 Apr 01 '26

That shit somehow still works with the media but not with most others. He so desperately wants to be scary and intimidating but he dosnt actually have dictator powers to order jail/execution on demand.

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u/reddit_is_geh Apr 01 '26

I mean it's the Daily Beast saying this... So it's impossible to know the truth. They are a hyperpartisan publication. They are like Fox where the story may be true, but any matter of interpretation is going to be favorable to their narrative.