Donald Trump’s joyless stampede through U.S. politics and culture resulted in another poll-topping A.W.I. performance, this one comprising attacks on comedians and an ordered-up prosecution of a former F.B.I. director—just because they (like so many people) got under the insecure, hypersensitive president’s papery, orange-rubbed skin. Trump’s 67.9 percent left normally strong contenders Sarah Ferguson (e-mailing obsequious notes to Jeffrey Epstein) and Melania Trump (flogging engraved Christmas ornaments) in the dust—with 11.5 percent and 8.8 percent, respectively. Even the sentencing of a former president of France to prison barely registered: Nicolas Sarkozy managed only 1.1 percent of your votes.
But that was then. Here comes another competition, right after:
