Trump Can't Fight the Laws of Presidential Eclipse
Don’t worry about the thin squealing you hear wafting in from the White House. It’s just the sound of the last thousand cubic meters of gas escaping the rapidly deflating Trump presidency.
This doesn’t mean we’ve heard the last from Donald Trump—or that during his descent from office he’ll be incapable of causing mischief and detonating crises. But given the way the attention economy works, with each passing day he will become less and less relevant as the bilge and sewage of his “rigged” and “stolen” election protests move deeper and deeper inside the A section of the newspaper and our focus toggles instead to the Biden presidency, Covid-19 fallout, the economy, foreign entanglements, natural catastrophes and the endless surprises the future brings. Trump’s slide from the political A list to the B list and maybe even the C list will be secured on Jan. 20, when Joe Biden takes the oath, so if you plan on missing him once he’s gone, prepare yourself for his vanishing act now.
Of course, our ex-presidents never really go away. If they write a book (as Barack Obama just did), take up painting, skydive, or become linked to a sex offender, they can swiftly slip back into the news cycle for several days or even a couple weeks. But their reentry is never a sure thing. While president, they command a billion eyes for everything they do and another billion pairs of ears for everything they say because they wield the power of the American state. They can drop the H-bomb, if they choose, knee-cap the careers of their political rivals, remake the courts with nominations, declare emergency powers and all the rest. Once out of office, drained of immediate power, they lose this competitive advantage for attracting attention. While still a big face in the crowd, an ex-president must now compete with everything else churning news and can no longer count on making a splash no matter what they say or do.
No other modern president has marshalled such constant attention over such a long period while in office as Trump, so dialing him down will be that much harder a task. So far, Trump’s Twitter following has continued its steady rise, but the press has begun to disengage.
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And that's what bugs Donny, the likelyhood that hell be rendered irrelevant.
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"Don’t worry about the thin squealing you hear wafting in from the White House. It’s just the sound of the last thousand cubic meters of gas escaping the rapidly deflating Trump presidency."
