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Former President Donald Trump wished his wife Melania a happy birthday Friday outside the courtroom where he faces criminal charges linked to hush money paid to an adult movie star he's accused of having sex with — and it went about as well as could be expected.

Trump's best birthday wishes — delivered outside the Manhattan criminal courtroom where key witnesses include disgraced tabloid publishers, imprisoned former fixers, and alleged mistress Stormy Daniels — were roundly ridiculed after video of the press conference hit social media.

"Wild and unpredictable" testimony is expected when Donald Trump's lawyers finally get their chance to cross-examine Stormy Daniels during the former president's New York hush money criminal trial, according to an attorney.

Former candidate for Manhattan district attorney, Janos Marton, said prosecutors will keep their line of questioning to Daniels as close to the language of their indictment as possible — but for Trump's defense, it will be open season as they try to destroy her credibility.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem scrambled Friday to justify her admission to gunning down her family's dog and goat in a gravel pit — by saying she'd also killed horses.

The Republican governor recounted the killings in her forthcoming memoir, "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward," saying the 14-month-old pup had an "aggressive personality" and proved herself "untrainable."

Donald Trump took a "bonafide nap" Friday as his attorney managed to bore the jury in a criminal trial tied to the former president's alleged payment of hush money to an adult movie star, a legal analyst said from inside the courtroom.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman reported from his front-row seat in Trump's Manhattan criminal court trial that neither the former president nor the jurors appeared titillated by attorney Emil Bove's cross-examination of ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.

Donald Trump's Friday morning claim Manhattan's Criminal Courts Building is "heavily guarded" so his supporters cannot attend his trial was torched by a top CNN anchor. The ex-president, facing 34 felony charges in New York, had been urging his followers to show up and protest on the courthouse steps, but few have.

"I’m at the heavily guarded Courthouse. Security is that of Fort Knox, all so that MAGA will not be able to attend this trial, presided over by a highly conflicted pawn of the Democrat Party. It is a sight to behold! Getting ready to do my Courthouse presser. Two minutes!" Trump wrote Friday morning on his Truth Social account.

Donald Trump believes the courtroom for his hush money trial is being deliberately kept freezing, he said Friday.

Speaking to the "press" at the Manhattan courthouse where he is facing 34 felony counts in his hush money trial, Trump bgain by wishing his wife Melania a happy birthday, before heading into his latest conspiracy theory.

Donald Trump exhorted his followers to come to the Manhattan courthouse where he's on trial — and expect to face resistance from law enforcement.

The former president is facing felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment intended to boost his election chances in 2016, and he has repeatedly called his supporters to protest outside the courthouse — and has falsely claimed that police would likely try to block them.