We had a more evenly distributed result last week among our Attention Whores. It’s true that Donald Trump won handily, with 38.6 percent of your votes—and he might be tough to beat again this week, with all his foaming-at-the-mouth fantasies about manacles and jumpsuits and perp walks. But he was followed by a respectable near dead heat among SVB head Greg Becker (13.3 percent), Ozempic (13.3 percent), and Lauren Boebert (12.7 percent). The also-rans: Emmanuel Macron, Xi Jinping, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and King Charles. (Although Charles may simply be saving his strength for early May, when there’s apparently some to-do in the U.K. that he’s expected to attend.)
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …