President Donald Trump is a master performer. He is a symbol and character more than a man, a type of performance artist.

But he is not the late Andy Kaufman playing Tony Clifton as Donald Trump, who is trying to speak some type of truth to power. Instead, the president’s performance is that of raw and corrupt power, and being freed from nearly all constraints on his behavior. For his MAGA supporters, such a role model and leader is exciting and cathartic.

Beyond Trump’s power to command attention as president, he understands modern media and the attention economy — and more importantly, how to manipulate it — like few others in recent American history. You can’t teach this. Trump has the “it” factor — and he knows it.

Ultimately, the world is his stage, and he is going to command it fo

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