Last week I wrote about our current president being a reality show president.

When I first started thinking about this, I was thinking that approval ratings were the metric that a Reality Show President would use. But he doesn’t seem to care about those. He seems to care about attention, especially media attention. (I’ve read that he used to call in “tips” to the NY newspapers to get his name in the paper.) I wonder if people booing at him at sporting events matters to him. I would guess yes, but it’s hard to tell.

What are the implications of a reality show president? It means his emphasis is on the show business part of the presidency (how does it look, especially on TV) and not on truth, following the rules or competence.

The bad press about when Secretary of Defense Hegseth talked about matters relating to military matters on Signal didn’t matter to our president because it’s a matter of following the rules, and who cares about rules? Hegseth still looks good, and he got press coverage, and that’s all that matters. I am sure the President also really appreciated the talk that Hegseth gave to the generals about looking good. That’s important!

When Kash Patel, Director of the FBI, announced falsely that they had caught Charlie Kirk’s murderer, it didn’t matter that it wasn’t true, because he got attention.

Appointing people who don’t know how to do that job doesn’t matter if they know how to get attention and are loyal to him. I could go down the list, but you know the names. There are very few people he appointed who are actually competent in their jobs. But as I said earlier, competence doesn’t matter. Getting things done doesn’t matter. Just how it looks to the media. Especially on Fox News.