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Linda A's avatar

Thanks for the transcript. He's furiously spewing random words. 99% incomprehensible is generous, Tom. But his cult calls that "presidential material."

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Karen RN's avatar

His cult all share one brain cell. And even that one is defective.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Perfect Karen.😁👍

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Dawn Erickson's avatar

That single brain cell accounts for the cult’s collective single digit IQ!

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Dave Dalton's avatar

Complete Sentences cause his followers confusion. They listen for trigger words and dig whistles. PS, they hated English Class during sentence diagramming periods

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Karen RN's avatar

Just like I said back in 2016...the emperor has no clothes and now Attorney General Leticia James has proven it...Sweet

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Michael Green's avatar

If I were a betting man, and I'm not, I might bet that he thinks sitting like that will somehow intimidate the judge because his glare is so powerful. Meanwhile, the judge is thinking, "Do I need to call a recess so he can relieve his constipation?"

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TCinLA's avatar

As Lawrence pointed out tonight, he was there to campaign, which was what he did outside the courtroom.

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JDinTX's avatar

Only for morons, otherwise PUKE

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Richard Johns's avatar

Mr. Witch. The hunt is over! We have you! The only question now is what we do with you. You talked about Gen. Miller being a Traitor, and what punishments were meted out to traitors. Let's go back to the history and see what was done to witches, huh?

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David Holzman's avatar

General Milley. (Beware autocorrect)

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Richard Johns's avatar

Sorry, folks. It was written just before I went to bed and I was fuzzy.

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Gigi's avatar

“Trump sat at the defense table like a truculent pre-teen brought up before the principal, arms crossed and scowling, occasionally rolling his eyes at the judge and yawning during the duller portions of the proceeding.”

You nailed it TC! ⭐️ Not the normal behavior of an adult and certainly not presidential material.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Trump & the press: I hear the world's smallest violin playing.

Can hardly wait for Engoron's

final ruling.😁

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Judith Matlock's avatar

I read recently that before Engoron attended an Ivy League law school that he was a cabbie, so he's got real world experience with baloney flingers.

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Ben - MD, VA, NE Florida.'s avatar

Trump glowers. The pain of not being able to pitch a petulant hissy fit clearly was more than he could deal with. Thus that he rant that even Fox cut. I love it!

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Susan Lorraine Knox's avatar

The true mugshot

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David Levine's avatar

he needs somebody to give him one of those shots suspended in mustard gas, so he only needs one every six months. every time he opens his mouth, he gets himself in deeper.

from a purely psychological point of view, watching him is sometimes even kind of interesting (how's that for qualifying?). but I like most first-person accounts of what it's like to go mad. in this case, the crazy person isn't especially conscious of the legal harm he's doing to himself.

isn't it BEAUTIFUL?

in its way, of course.

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Vague Craig's avatar

As excruciating yet exquisite as a slow-motion wreck, one just can't look away. We can see the trees trembling on the hillside above as the train goes into the tunnel. Rocks begin to tumble down toward the bridge after the tunnel exit.

Will the loser break, and lose it in a public melt down. Might he have a giant red-faced blubbering tantrum so we can mock, ridicule, and laugh at him for the rest of his miserable days? Please, I need to breathe again.

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David Levine's avatar

what you said.

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JDinTX's avatar

If he weren’t as dangerous as Putin

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Karen RN's avatar

Love your new avatar pic David.

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David Levine's avatar

I'm not too crazy about mirrors either. in that Avatar picture, there's a good chance I was in the middle of a mycological investigation.

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David Levine's avatar

...hence the benign smile

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Karen RN's avatar

Lucky guy. I haven’t partaken in one of those for many years. I had some great ones on the beach when I lived in California many moons ago.

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David Levine's avatar

I have absolutely no doubt about that, Karen.

I abstained for many years (after an acid trip involving food poisoning and a few days of mild toxic psychosis in 1972), but mushrooms are just so EASY to HANDLE.

good, clean fun, I say.

too clean, but...

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David Levine's avatar

thank you, Karen. it's one of the few pictures I have that are actually full-face and taken within the last decade. (this is 2018, when we were all MUCH younger and there might have been a day or two uncorrupted by fierce, abiding hatred).

I figured it'd be a nice change of pace. or something.

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Karen RN's avatar

I have very few pictures of me in the last decade. I try to avoid the camera these days. But I found one from several years ago. I must have had a little wine for this one😹

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Susan Lorraine Knox's avatar

It's entertaining to take everything djt says and turn it around backwards and inside out like a dirty sock to discover the truth about where the dirt comes from. TC, I wish you would run for office. Your campaign would singe the trappings of your opponents!

💕 and 💐🌹🥀🍁🌷🪷🌸🏵️🌻🌼

To you

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Alec Ferguson's avatar

The miracle of capitalism. The visible hand.

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Alec Ferguson's avatar

TC and history.

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Christine (FL)'s avatar

Dead in the water. His faulty motor spewing gas fumes and turning the boat in a circle, ass of a stern dipped below the water line. Useless and sinking.

Salud, TC.

🗽

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Liz Ayer, Nyc/MA's avatar

I love seeing him enraged— hey with all that junk food could be a little heart attack in his future…just sayin.

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JDinTX's avatar

If I’m not mistaken, all the actions against chump were initiated before his declaration to run. After all, his crimes have been front and center for all the world to see ever since the moron decided to put himself under the political microscope. Being president is his only get out of jail free card, and path to revenge.

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TCinLA's avatar

No, if you recall, he announced his candidacy two weeks after last year's elections, hoped that DOJ wouldnty go after a "political candidate" or he could claim "election interference" as he does.

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JDinTX's avatar

Thank you for correction. Sure thought it was a tad later. Should have Googled.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

You would think that living in the pockets of lawyers as he does now he would pick up SOME legal vocabulary, if not knowledge. "Why is it that he didn’t honor the decision of the appellate?" The appellate? Is that sort of like a Cardinal? And what 5-0 decision is he talking about? The only defendant barred by the Statute of Limitations was Ivanka, because she had left the Trump Org (he also isn't being sued for anything done before the statute ran, only after). Or is he talking the temporary pause of the appeals court? Has he missed the memo that that was lifted? Are his lawyers too scared to tell him?

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JDinTX's avatar

He is just repeating his previous rants, with likely no connection to reality.

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TCinLA's avatar

That's all he's got. The Big Lie must be repeated endlessly.

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JDinTX's avatar

Right out of Mein Kampf, and if Murphy's translation is to be believed, the bigger the better.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

Right. Hurl the baloney because the low-info types will think he's a mighty swordsman sabering the system. "Did you hear that, Billy Bobby? The appellate made a decision and deez guys are just ruining America."

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Stewart Whisenant's avatar

Nice wrap-up of the Tangerine Turkey's rants against reality. It's a good thing TAFM exists since the mainstream Fourth Estate has abdicated its duty as protector of the Constitution. If Trump gets reelected by some quirk of Electoral College or Supreme Court machinations, he will shutdown Substack and try to kill us all. This post illustrates why the rule of law is so important to the preservation of Truth and Justice in the often dysfunctional affairs of Homo sapiens.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

Didn't watch because I knew you'd sacrifice for us and report back, TC, but if there's any future hint that Trump might upend the courtroom table he's seated at, tear open his shirt to reveal the big S, launch himself through a nearby window and spontaneously combust in midair, then I'd get out my air horn, jump up and down, and cheer 'til the windows crack. But first choice would be seeing him with his wrists manacled together so he can't wave a fist and watching him do the institutional shuffle in the hallowed hall of justice. Someone, please let me know when either of these things is about to happen.

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