Unsurprised by the Trump Tax Story? The Feeling Is Mutual.
It’s been four years of this grift, and it’s hard to know what to add to the noise
What is there left to say about Donald Trump’s rampant corruption? I told you so? Too obvious. But it’s all too obvious. Yes, a lot of things are happening at once, so why am I not having the same kind of reaction to the news I might have had in 2016 or 2017? Am I dead inside? (Obviously, yes.)
Over at The Atlantic, Quinta Jurecic nails the mood: “Trump is boring in the way that the seventh season of a reality television show is boring: A lot is happening, but there’s nothing to say about it.” It’s growing harder to make art that truly critiques a person who says the quiet part loud. (Every time I see a half-assed Trump New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt, I think, “Wow, got him!”)
It’s nearly a month until Election Day. What is left to say? Jurecic writes about the “censorship through noise” that Trump creates. If we turn toward art or our families or joy or anything else except Trump, we can deny him “the thing he wants most of all: undivided attention.”
