A court-related nail-biter of a finish last week—a week that began with Prince Harry taking the stand and ended with Donald Trump heading that way too, assuming any lawyers craven enough to represent the Most Innocent Man in History let him anywhere near it. Trump won out, with 37.7 percent to Harry’s 36.7 percent. Casey DeSantis rode her black leather summer wear to a distant third (8.7 percent), and the rest—All Those Republican Candidates, Lauren Boebert, Hannah Gadsby, Chris Licht, and Elon Musk, in that order—trailed badly.
This week, we introduce a special—and perhaps occasional—Grand-Master Edition of the Attention-Whore Index, an opportunity to celebrate a particular subset of these estimable over-achievers. Were this competition truly designed to welcome all comers, every one of our participants, even chronic high pollers like the Spare and the Rump, would be swept aside each week by an army of Instagrammers. We don’t mean to suggest all Instagrammers are necessarily attention whores—perish the thought!—but if you’re Instagramming, you’re not exactly avoiding attention.
