'Judges didn't have time to stop laughing': Trump's failed hush money trial bid mocked

Former President Donald Trump was dealt a humiliating blow on Monday when a judge immediately dismissed his push to delay the April 15 date of his Manhattan hush money trial.

Trump, whose attorneys had been arguing the delay was necessary in order to pursue a change of venue, were summarily denied by Judge Lizbeth Gonzalez, clearing the way for the former president's first criminal trial to begin later this month.

Commenters on social media, including legal experts, were triumphant that the former president's gambit — the latest in a long series of attempts he has made to block or stall out his various legal problems — crashed and burned.

"The Appellate Division issued this order so quickly the judges didn’t even have time to stop laughing," wrote conservative attorney George Conway.

"DENIED: No change of venue for the election interference hush money trial. SAD!" wrote legal and political commentator Allison Gill, better known by the online moniker Mueller, She Wrote.

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"Good," wrote author Patrick S. Tomlinson. "Single judge declines to advance Trump's venue change motion to a full appellate panel. Change of venue and stay motions denied. Sounds like NY is done screwing around with this d-------."

"NEW: The ruling that the screaming toddler must go to bed without supper is upheld," wrote the account "The Exhausted Lib."

The Manhattan trial, which was brought by District Attorney Alvin Bragg and was also the first of the four cases to return an indictment, centers on falsification of business records Trump allegedly made to conceal hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, to keep details of an affair quiet ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Bragg is prosecuting this falsification as a felony, arguing that it was effectively done in service of an illegal campaign finance scheme to benefit his election campaign off the books.