Sometimes you’ve got to leave it to the professionals to show you how it’s done. Jada Pinkett Smith’s astonishing revelation last week that her marriage to Will Smith had been a sham since 2016—thus painting her husband’s slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars in a very new, and bewildering, light—rightly earned her the A.W.I. title last week, with 43.6 percent of the vote. After that attention-grabbing masterstroke, Jim Jordan’s endless, failed attempts to become Speaker of the House seemed amateurish, earning him 36.5 percent but, naturally, no majority. Meanwhile, Donald Trump—perhaps hindered by the gag order imposed on him by a federal judge—took a discreet 9.5 percent.
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
