See you on a Tuesday in November

Donald Trump threw a fit because his lawyers arranged to provide lunch to the plaintiff’s lawyers during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago (this is standard practice during depositions and it would be considered aggressively rude not to do it).

“And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain. You could really almost see it,” [Roberta] Kaplan told Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative attorney George Conway, a longtime Trump critic. “And he said, ‘Well, you’re here in Mar-a-Lago. What do you think you’re going to do for lunch? Where are you going to get lunch?’”

Kaplan said she told him that his attorneys had “graciously offered to provide” her team with lunch — a common civil practice between opposing legal teams.

“At which point there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile and he just threw it across the table. And stormed out of the room,” Kaplan shared, adding that Trump specifically yelled at his lawyer Alina Habba for providing them lunch.

“He really yelled at Alina for that. He was so mad at Alina,” she said.

Revenge, however, was not far away:

Kaplan detailed the end of the deposition when she was set to leave, saying that Trump told her: “See you next Tuesday” – a phrase that is often used as a derogatory euphemism directed at women.

I had never heard of this before, and it took me a minute to figure out it’s alluding to an acronym, that would be considered a funny joke by a dull-normal 13-year-old boy.

Speaking of which:

“We come in the room and I say, ‘I’m done asking questions’ and immediately I hear from the other side, ‘Off the record. Off the record. Off the record.’ So they must have planned it. And he looks at me from across the table and he says, ‘See you next Tuesday,’” she recounted.

Kaplan said that she was initially confused, as their next meeting was set for a Wednesday. “You could tell it was like, it was like a kind of a joke again, like teenage boys would come up with. But again, I wasn’t in on the joke,” she said.

“I wasn’t in on the joke, so I had no idea. Then we get into the car and my colleagues are like, ‘Robbie, do you know what that means?’ And I’m like, ‘No, what are you talking about?’ They tell me and I’m like, oh my God, thank God I didn’t know because had I known, I for sure would have gotten angry. There’s no question I would have gotten angry,” Kaplan said.

Last week Kaplan won an $83.3 million verdict against Trump for lying to the public about raping her client E. Jean Carroll.

Until fairly recently I wouldn’t have imagined I would be writing sentences like this about a major party presidential candidate, but here we are.