A CNN panel on Tuesday openly ridiculed former President Donald Trump for reportedly nodding off during his appearance in court on Monday.
When asked for her opinion on Trump apparently falling asleep during his own criminal trial, panelist Lulu Garcia Navarro offered a simple and somewhat sympathetic explanation.
"He's old," she said. "And old men take naps. It was a long proceeding."
Navarro went on to say that she didn't think that the brief nap was that big of a deal -- but that the Trump campaign's response to it was.
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"Did you see what... Trump's people actually did? They denied it," she said. "They said it did not happen and that it was lies... It is not only Donald Trump on trial, it is actually again, as with everything to do with Donald Trump, reality and truth itself. And there will be a segment of the population who actually do not believe that he nodded off. If this had happened on television and we were playing that tape, it might have had an impact in the way that people perceive this trial."
Host Jim Acosta argued that it was standard "Trumpian silliness" to deny that he nodded off in court, and guest David Frum then zeroed in on Trump's complaint that his trial would prevent him from attending the high school graduation of his youngest son, Barron Trump.
"The silliness is this claim of high school graduation," he said. "There are internet sleuths who have pointed out that Donald Trump has never attended any of his previous children's high school graduations."
Frum then suggested that reporters should ask Trump on the spot to name the son who will soon be graduating because "Trump often seems to be unaware of his son's name."
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