What really impresses isn’t so much that Donald Trump again won the A.W.I. polling—with 58.3 percent—but the range he showed in doing so. Lying about Beyoncé, suing Rupert Murdoch, ordering up a $200 million White House ballroom, complaining that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” a teenage girl from him, threatening Vladimir Putin (again), cheating at golf (again) … this is no ordinary Attention Whore. A distant second place went to Ghislaine Maxwell (19 percent), who suddenly was everywhere, meeting with the Justice Department, appealing to the Supreme Court, and—by week’s end—getting herself transferred from a Florida prison to a more convict-friendly, minimum-security “Club Fed” facility in Texas. Epstein himself, competing from Hades, placed third (9.5 percent).
Another Index coming right up, after this:
