Trump’s eternal quest for attention has led to the announcement of a presidential bid | Rebecca Solnit

Pundits who prophesied Trump will ride high seemingly forgot that the wheel that turns up, also turns down - and the midterms proved it

The incredible shrinking Trump announced, in the most predictable news of the year, that he's running for president again. In his eternal quest for attention, he had to be dissuaded from doing it before the recent election, so he wouldn't do what he most aspires to do, which is to steal attention from everyone else, including the candidates in the party he may or may not still head but definitely disrupted.

He would like lots more attention from you and me and everyone else, and he would also like some qualified immunity from all the criming he did during his last presidency. By the way, he stole a lot of classified documents and tried to steal an election and there should be lots of legal consequences for both of those more newsworthy things, though I wouldn't bet on that. I'd much rather talk about everyone and anyone else, but within the parameters of this assignment I will have to talk about them talking about Trump.