Tired of Winning Yet?

Matt Bai: “If he became president, Trump said, America would all of a sudden start winning again… We’d win so much, Trump said, that we’d eventually grow tired of winning. He knew what he was talking about. Because Trump had been winning all his life… Winning, in Trump’s mind, wasn’t about us. It was about him. It’s about ratings and primacy. Trump wants more than anything to exist outside of himself, to occupy your screens and your emotions.”

“Of course Trump’s idea of winning feels deflating to most of us. It’s exhausting. It’s disorienting. It’s like putting your face up to an industrial fan every hour of the day… But you can’t really blame the president. He told us right from the start that we’d get tired of the whole noisy routine. We were just too busy gawking to listen.”