Damn, I hate what has become of us.
I know there are those who think that this is all part of Trump’s “genius” or “magic” that he is able to always change the media’s subject whenever it doesn’t favor him. While there is no doubt that Trump is indeed a master at media manipulation (it’s not that hard when you are huge celebrity and the media knows that talking about whatever your newest dustup is, no matter how inane, is good for their ratings), I tend to think that this phenomenon is more about luck that some sort of amazing skill at pulling off eight-dimensional chess moves.
After all, Trump’s first two tweets on Saturday morning where about him making incredibly lame excuses for why he felt he had to settle the Trump University lawsuits for the good of the country:
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