Trump Privately Raging About Sketch Artist, Reports On Courtroom Naps

This is one of the least surprising things I've read all week about how Trump is handling things after being forced to sit in court and keep his mouth shut, for the most part anyway, this past week. As MSNBC's Charles Coleman Jr. told a panel on this Saturday's The Weekend:

"Donald Trump is not used to being in spaces where there are narratives advancing about him that he cannot counteract and that is exactly why he has so much trouble with this gag order," he told the hosts.

"There are things being said about him and he feels as if his hands are tied: he cannot stand the feeling," he elaborated. "And I joked about it at the beginning of the last segment. The truth is that trial is a very long, arduous and exhausting process. For someone of his age, it is a lot of stress to deal with. That is why I fully expect, regardless of what happens with Judge Juan Merchan's recent ruling this week, he is going to pop."

Reporting from Rolling Stone this weekend affirmed the notion that Coleman is absolutely correct on Trump being close to exploding in public given the way he's raging in private:

The former president’s anger during the first week of his New York hush money trial was “maxed out, even for him,” a source tells Rolling Stone [...]

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