In returning to the no-business-like-show-business metropolis that propelled him to tabloid-fodder fame so many years ago, former president Donald Trump also returned to the very stage where he thrives the most.
In the currency of today's attention economy, Donald Trump is the world's richest man.
There was something about Tuesday, and about the five days that preceded it, that was somehow both familiar and deeply abnormal. Yet all that familiarity obscured what was something genuinely new under the American sun: the moment-by-moment chronicling of an ex-president leaving for court, entering court, charged with felonies in court, leaving court in a motorcade headed for the airport to board his private plane, the one with his name very publicly painted on the side.We got to see it all, as has become our way.
-- There was a main character you can't look away from: A Newsmax anchor awaiting Trump's court appearance called him the "star of the show." -- There was disinformation built to sell product: Though no mug shot was taken of the former president during his time in court Tuesday, people raising funds on his behalf quickly ginned up a fake one and blasted it out to rally the troops and lighten their wallets.
"At that moment, that is not a conquorer. That is a granddad having a very bad day." commentator Van Jones said on CNN after watching the former president's dejected facial expression as he left Trump Tower before the arraignment.
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