Stormy Daniels Mocked for Courtroom Sketch

Courtroom sketches of adult-film star Stormy Daniels testifying during the hush-money criminal trial of former President Donald Trump are inspiring social media mockery from conservatives.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal during his 2016 presidential campaign. Both women claim that they had affairs with Trump, which the former president denies.

Daniels has faced heavy backlash from the former president's MAGA faithful while testifying this week about her alleged affair with Trump. Her testimony has included several lurid details of their supposed sexual encounters and an admission that she "hates" the ex-president.

On Thursday, Daniels' sketched appearance in the courtroom prompted a number of conservatives to focus their ridicule in posts to X, formerly Twitter. One crudely drawn sketch that significantly distorted Daniels' facial features was singled out in particular.

"The courtroom sketch artist just drew a perfect likeness of Stormy Daniels' soul," wrote conservative pundit and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk while sharing the sketch.

"Scary," @MatthewJshow responded.

"The next villain in the conjuring universe was just born," wrote conservative podcaster Cash Loren.

"Whew! Vengeful, vindictive and vile," @_starandrea78 wrote. "Perfect likeness of Stormy."

Mockery of Daniels was not limited to the single sketch, with others from Thursday and images that were not sketched in the courtroom also making the rounds.

"I think the sketch artist for Stormy Daniels is MAGA," wrote Jackson Lahmeyer, founder of "Pastors for Trump," while sharing a more detailed sketch of Daniels.

"This courtroom sketch of @StormyDaniels is accurate af. #horseface," @1stAmerican89 wrote in reference to a less-detailed sketch.

"Very talented sketch artist," wrote @therealZNO while sharing a non-courtroom sketch of Daniels as the villainous character Gollum from The Lord of the Rings.

Not all of the Daniels courtroom sketch reviews on Thursday were negative. CNN journalist Jake Tapper shared two sketches, including one that had been been cropped and mocked by conservatives, while referring to the artists Christine Cornell and Jane Rosenberg as "the masters."

Newsweek reached out for comment to representatives for Daniels via email on Thursday.

Trump has also been mocked over his appearance in sketches drawn during his criminal trial and recent civil trials.

Images created by Rosenberg during the early days of the hush-money trial inspired jokes from social media users and suggestions that the ex-president was wearing a "smirk" when first presented to prospective jurors.

Trump sketches made by Cornell during the second E. Jean Carroll civil defamation trial in January prompted some to claim that the former president looked like a character from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats or Dr. Seuss' character The Grinch.