Last week’s top Attention Whore Index finishers all coasted to the virtual winners’ podium on the strength of their (day)dreams. Donald Trump’s reveries about a late golf champ’s genitalia got him 41.4 percent. Tucker Carlson’s musings about Trump spanking “a bad little girl” were good for 23 percent. And Elon Musk’s reflections on buying the election for Trump and eventually ruling the world earned him third place (15.2 percent). Can a pair of faux-reclusive quasi-royals compete with that? (They cannot. The Sussexes were fourth, with 9.4 percent.)
If you’re wondering how much lower it can all go, read on. But first:
