"Not America," Donald Trump muttered as he exited the courtroom following his testimony.

"It's not America. This is not America," he repeated, his voice rising as he slowly walked toward the courtroom exit.

Court was adjourned, with closing arguments scheduled for Friday.

"Do you stand by your testimony in your deposition?" Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, asked Trump on the witness stand.

"100% yes," Trump responded.

"Did you deny the allegation to defend yourself?" Habba asked. "Yes I did, that's exactly right," Trump responded.

"Mr. President, did you ever instruct anyone to hurt Ms. Carroll?"

"No, I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency," Trump answered.

The judge struck everything after the word "no."

On cross-examination Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan asked whether this is the first trial with Carroll that Trump has attended. He said yes.

On redirect, Trump affirmed he was represented by counsel.

Trump then stepped down from the stand, his testimony over after all of three minutes.

Prior to Trump taking the witness stand, Judge Lewis Kaplan reminded the parties, outside the jury's presence, that a prior trial found "Mr. Trump in fact sexually abused Ms. Carroll by forcibly and without consent inserting his fingers into her vagina" and that "Ms. Carroll did not make up her claim of forcible sexual abuse."

Kaplan said the prior trial also established Trump's statements of denial were defamatory and that Trump "knew they were false, had serious doubts as to the truth of what he said or made those statements with a high degree of awareness that they were probably false."

The judge reminded the defense that Trump cannot make any argument "disputing or undermining those determinations." He said "there is cause for concern" that Trump's testimony might contain inadmissible evidence.

"I want to know everything he is going to say," Kaplan told defense attorney Alina Habba.

"That he stands by his deposition," Habba responded. "He is going to say that he did not make the statements to hurt Ms. Carroll."

Habba said Trump will also say that he had to respond to the allegation and did not instruct anyone to disparage Carroll.

Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, complained that while Habba was giving her proffer, "Mr. Trump said under his breath that he never met her and had never seen her before."

Kaplan said the jury would be instructed that, regardless of what Trump says on the witness stand, "he did it."

Trump was overheard saying he was not at the first trial and that he does not "know this woman" as Habba tried to affirm Trump understood the confines of his testimony.

"So he will comply with the rulings?" Kaplan asked. "That is my understanding," Habba replied.

The judge has limited the examination to three questions: Does he stand by the deposition? Did he deny the allegation because an accusation had been made? And did he instruct anyone to hurt Carroll?

"Defense calls President Donald Trump," attorney Alina Habba said as Trump took the stand in his own defense.

After walking out of the courtroom, former President Trump remained absent for the remainder of the plaintiff's closing statement, during which E. Jean Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan asked the jury to punish Trump for the "humiliation and mental anguish" he inflicted on Carroll.

"The evidence was as shocking as it was unmistakable," the attorney said. "Imagine for a second what it would feel like to go to sleep in one world and wake up in another world, one in which the president of the United States ... is attacking you.

Death threats followed death threats, which the lawyer said is what Trump wanted. "Donald Trump had said that Ms. Carroll should pay dearly and that Ms. Carroll had entered into dangerous territory," she told the jury.

She said the jury's compensatory damages award should include the cost to repair Carroll's reputation, which an expert testified could cost as much as $12 million.

"While Ms. Carroll built that career over five decades, Donald Trump shattered it in a matter of hours," she said. "People are not dying to write to an advice columnist who the president says is a disgrace."

The attorney also asked the jury to award punitive damages, arguing the defamation has not ceased, even after an earlier trial last May held him liable for sexual assault and defamation and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages.

She declined to name a dollar figure for the award, but said it should be at least as much as the $12 million repair campaign plus additional compensatory and punitive damages.

She urged the jury to consider one question: "How much will it take to make him stop?"

"You actually have the opportunity, maybe even a responsibility, to put an end to this by requiring Donald Trump to pay an amount of money large enough for him that it will finally make him stop," she said.