Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) led the fast break in mocking President Donald Trump for apparently napping again, this time during one of the most exciting sporting events to hit New York City in a while.
The MeidasTouch Network and others circulated clips of Trump dozing off during Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the hometown Knicks and San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden on Monday.
A yell by Knicks owner James Dolan appeared to rouse him at least temporarily.
"WAKE TF UP," wrote Ocasio-Cortez, a reliable nemesis of the president who brought her trolling A-game.
Others called out the heavily booed Trump for prompting inconvenient crowd-control measures just by attending, and then appearing to catch some ZZZs as if it were a cabinet meeting or something.
He has been caught getting extended shut-eye or "blinking," as his staff likes to frame it, on multiple occasions while questions about his age swirl. But doing it amid 20,000 or so screaming fans while being fully aware cameras are on him? Yeah, "The Nodfather" got posterized.
A squad of responders to AOC's social media dagger were happy to do it:
- "Shut down half of New York, got the whole building booed, and then fell asleep. The most expensive nap in American history."
- "The president of the United States shuts down midtown Manhattan to attend the finals and then slept through it. This is the timeline we live in."
- "All that extra security so piggy could take a nap."
- "Wasting all those people's time just to take a nap."
- "Causes chaos and ruins the game for true fans… Sleeps through the game. He will have plenty of naps in prison."
- "Geeeeeeeezus!! Even in that amount of noise?"
- "Does Trump have any real supporters on here because anytime he gets called out for his buffoonery I get inundated with bots defending him."
- "Was it really worth it? Why did he even have to be there? So he could take a nap? What an insult to basketball fans. Keep this rubbish out of our sports."
