Biden Laughs At ‘Sleepy Don’ Trump At Private Fundraiser — Claims Trump ‘Knows He’s In Trouble’

President Joe Biden laughed about former President Donald Trump sleeping in court, and told supporters that Trump “knows he’s in trouble” in his bid to defeat Biden in November.

One of the most high-profile subplots of the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial has been Trump falling asleep in court over and over again over the past few weeks . The Biden campaign almost immediately dubbed Trump “Sleepy Don” to parody Trump’s own nickname gag and Biden referenced the name at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

President Biden used the appellation at a campaign event for the first time when he spoke Friday at a closed-door campaign fundraiser at The Sanctuary at the Lotte Hotel Seattle in Seattle, Washington.

Biden opened his remarks with a cocky statement about “when we win” and drew laughs by mocking Trump:

THE PRESIDENT: Folks, thank you. (Applause.) I’ll tell you something else — (inaudible) get up here. I want to tell you something else. When we win, he ain’t staying in Washington State. (Applause.)

GOVERNOR INSLEE: Uh oh! (Laughter and applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: Go talk to Trudi. (Laughs.)

GOVERNOR INSLEE: Go get it. Have fun tonight.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.

Hello, Seattle! (Applause.) And thank you for the warm welcome. But please keep it down because — (laughter) — Donald Trump is sleeping. (Laughter.) “Sleepy Don,” I kind of like that these days. (Laughter.)

Elsewhere in the speech, Biden referenced “when” Trump lose again, “not if”:

Trump says when he loses again — if he — he says “if,” I say “when” — (laughter and applause) — he loses again, he says there will be a “bloodbath.” His words. A “bloodbath.” He means it.

The president went on to hit Trump repeatedly in the speech, telling the crowd he “knows he’s in trouble” by citing Trump’s wide-ranging interview with Time Magazine:

I know everyone is feeling that enthusi- — I know not everyone is feeling that enthusiasm. The other day, a defeated-looking man came up to me and said, “Mr. President, I’m being crushed by debt, and I’m completely wiped out.” I had to say to him, “I’m sorry, Donald, I can’t help you.” (Laughter and applause.) “Nothing I can do to help.” (Applause.)

Look, Trump knows he’s in trouble. You know, he has bragged about he’s the reason why Roe v. Wade was overturned, and now he’s worried the voters are going to remind him of that and all the cruelty and chaos that has caused.

Well, let me ask you: Are we going to hold him accountable or not? We are, right? (Applause.)

Trump did a long interview in TIME Magazine. You ought to read — I’m being deadly earnest about this. You ought to read it.

He said, quote, “states should monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate the bans.”

Monitor women’s pregnancies? What have we become here?

But, look, chaos is nothing new to Trump. His presidency was a chaos. Trump is trying to make the country forget how dark and unsettling things were when he was president. But we’re never going to forget.

Trump and Biden are about even in national polls, with Trump leading by about half a point in the FiveThirtyEight average — a lead that has narrowed by almost two points from a few weeks ago. But Trump leads in five of six battleground states in a new raft of New York Times polls.