All through this feature’s brief year-end hiatus, the elite class of Attention Whores kept in fighting trim. At that level of professionalism, holidays are an afterthought. One A.W.I. mainstay who ignored neither the season nor the spotlight was Donald Trump, with his festive message to the death-row inmates whose sentences President Biden had commuted to life in prison: “I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL!”
Clarence Thomas kept his hand in as well when it was revealed that—oops!—he’d forgotten to disclose still more free trips (private plane, yacht) bestowed by his favorite billionaire-conservative patron. And Lincoln County, Oregon, received some unwanted but well-earned attention after an anonymous letter circulated in the community encouraging citizens to report and track “brown folks,” just in case they were undocumented immigrants.
