Entertainment
Donald Trump, as president, was a cultural phenomenon. Were we ‘addicted’ to the storylines? – ABC News
As with any zeitgeisty TV drama, we were glued to our screens right to the bloody end. What does that say about us?
“None of you not a single one of you can look away,” Donald Trump wrote in 2015, as he campaigned for the Republican nomination.
He was talking about just how absorbed we were becoming in the drama of an orange-tinted reality TV celebrity running for President.
“Admit it,” he wrote. “You people want to see just how far this goes, don’t you?”
OK, full disclosure: he didn’t write that.
The Onion did.
That prescient Onion headline: “Admit it: You people want to see how far this goes, don’t you?”(ABC)
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