The idea that you could be coronated King in a lavish ceremony involving a horse-drawn carriage worthy of Cinderella, and several costume changes, with 20 million people watching … and still be regarded as a relatively demure chap is one we didn’t anticipate. And yet here are the stark results of the voting: Donald Trump, 40.1 percent; George Santos, 22.8 percent; King Charles III (see above), 15.6 percent; and Marjorie Taylor Greene, 10.2 percent; followed by Taylor Swift and Matty Healy, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Juan Carlos, and Larry Page. So Charles, who is not unfamiliar with long, long waits, settles in and gets comfortable in anticipation of an A.W.I. crowning that, based on the evidence, might never come. Time for an impromptu rant about modern architecture?
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
