It might feel as if the wider world is circling the drain, but here in Attention-Whore Index Land, all is as it should be. Donald Trump won handily (47 percent) for the fourth time in five weeks, reaffirming at least for the moment that Elon Musk is his sidekick, rather than the other way around. Trump’s nonstop offensiveness might in itself have been enough to secure first place, but he iced the victory with his Oval Office sandbagging of Volodymyr Zelensky. (“This is going to be great television”—spoken like a true Attention Whore.) Future historians will have to determine whether the United States handed Vladimir Putin not only Ukraine but much more, just because the reliably ill-dressed Trump didn’t like what Zelensky wore to their meeting.
The tiresome, overconfident Musk finished second (29.3 percent), while an endless, if barely audible, drumbeat for Meghan Markle’s new lifestyle series was enough to earn the duchess third place (12.7 percent).
