While the world feasts over Trump trial, New Yorkers are sick of the circus that they say is killing business and turning courthouse into a tourist trap [Video]

17:27 EDT 22 Apr 2024, updated 22:57 EDT 22 Apr 2024

As the world’s media gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse ahead of the opening arguments in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial, one New Yorker summed up the growing mood among many:

‘I don’t give a s***,’ the young woman said, shrugging off questions about what it felt like to be witnessing history.

She had been dragged to the spectacle by a visiting friend from California, for whom the novelty of seeing a former president grilled over an alleged affair with a porn star still fascinates.

While everyone else remains enraptured by the legal wranglings surrounding the world’s biggest showman, the city that never sleeps is growing tired of his ongoing circus – and wishes it would move on to another town.

Monday was the first time a court had heard legal arguments in a criminal trial of a US president – current or former. 

But Trump’s appearances at Manhattan …