Jon Stewart rips into Trump’s attitude in court: ‘Imagine committing so many crimes, you get bored at trial’

Jon Stewart ripped into Donald Trump on the first day of the former president’s unprecedented criminal trial in New York – after Trump appeared to start to fall asleep in the courtroom.

Trump was in courtfor jury selection for the first-ever criminal trial of a sitting or former president. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in an alleged attempt to hide hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump denies the charges.

Despite the day’s proceedings, reporters noticed that Mr Trump appeared to doze off, sparking a slew of online jokes at the former president’s expense, such as naming him “Sleepy Don”.

Stewart had a theory thatafter so many courtroom appearances, he may have just gotten bored of all the proceedings.

“Imagine committing so many crimes, you get bored at your own trial,” Stewart said on The Daily Show.

Stewart referenced a clip of journalist Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper how Mr Trump “appeared to be asleep and repeatedly his head would fall down”. Ms Haberman also described what she saw as Mr Trump appearing “to nod off a few times”.

“His mouth going slack and his head drooping onto his chest,” she added.

Stewart joked: “Hey Jake, what part of ‘head down, eyes closed, drool coming out of his mouth’ do you not… get over here? He’s snoring.” Stewart also imitated the snoring sounds made by cartoon characters.

“There’s a piece of paper going up and down and up and down in his mouth,” Stewart further teased. “He’s asleep.”

Mr Trump’s campaign has furiously slammed the reports that the 77-year-old presidential candidate appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open, telling The Independent in a statement that “This is 100% Fake News coming from