Donald Trump was warned to control himself or be kicked out of court for loudly muttering that the E. Jean Carroll trial was a 'witch hunt' and a 'con job'.

Judge Lewis Kaplan warned he would have the 77-year-old president removed if he continued to disrupt the columnist's testimony with comments from behind the defense table.

Trump threw his arms in the air in frustration, shook his head, then said: 'I would love it. I would love it'.

Before the tense exchange, Carroll told the jury in the $10million defamation trial that Trump's 'lies' had sparked so many death threats she bought bullets for a gun she kept by her head.

A New York jury found last year that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. The new trial is to decide how much he'll pay in damages for comments he made while he was president - including: 'This woman is not my type!'

The jury were shown some of the torrent of vile messages she received including some emails threatening her life.

Choking up, Carroll said that 'many, many' commented on her appearance, with the overall message that she was 'too ugly to go on living'.

'DAMMMN YOU ARE SO UGLY A KOMODO DRAGON WOULDN'T TOUCH YOU WITH A TEN FOOT POLE…GO BACK TO YOUR CAVE', one read. 

Another photo showed Carroll's face next to an alien and the words: 'Both tell fictitious made up stories'.