It has been noted that former President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump poked fun at Donald Trump after he fell asleep in court several times. She spoke to SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah and said that it makes her worry “narcolepsy runs in the family” via Mediaite.
Trump — host of The Mary Trump Show podcast and strident Trump critic and author of The Good In Us newsletter — was a guest on Wednesday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show.
They opened the interview by mocking Trump for repeatedly falling asleep at trial this week, and Obeidallah raised the subject later in the show to ask Mary what she made of the naps:
DEAN OBEIDALLAH: Hello, Mary L Trump, how are you, my friend?
MARY TRUMP: Hello, Dean Obeidallah! Hanging in there. I’m a little sleepy! (laughs)
DEAN OBEIDALLAH: Well, so is that a family thing? Is that genetic?
MARY TRUMP: Yeah, I’m a little worried that narcolepsy runs in the family, but hopefully not.
DEAN OBEIDALLAH: Oh, yeah. We will talk about the sleep and everything–
…
DEAN OBEIDALLAH: He so, you know, a lot of people made light of it, of course, but I also think it’s meaningful that Donald, in the first two days fell asleep for part of the trial.
This is his first criminal trial of his life. You would think he’d be riveted. So I think he has no control.
I don’t mean narcolepsy. I it’s either a side effect of a medication or he’s just tired. He’s an elderly man. He’s 77, and maybe he naps every day. We just don’t know. We don’t know what he does anymore. What? What do you make of it?
MARY TRUMP: Well, I think it we can’t underestimate the extent of the depth of the narcissistic injury he’s suffering.
One, he’s in a situation in which he has no control and and worse, he is under the control of somebody else. There is somebody else in that room with all of the authority, and he has none. So that’s that’s already problematic for him.
Secondly. Sorry, I can’t help laughing. Just because Donald is so mean, to other people, he’s so insulting and and demeaning that, there was a bit of schadenfreude, when the judge read into the record certain, posts that prospective jurors, jurors had put on their social media pages.
You know, Donald invited the Thai boys to, the White House, but they decided they’d rather go back to the cave, for example. And just pointing out, how stupid he is, and and he has to sit there and take it.
This is. I know this word is is needs to be retired after November, but this is unprecedented in his lifetime. And it’s a moment that, unconsciously, he’s probably been dreading for the last five and a half decades.
So part of him was probably always terrified that it was going to come, but also, he probably never believed it would because he always gets away with everything. And here we are. And trust me, he understands how serious this is.
