Is this… Could this be
what takes Trump down?

Donald J. Trump’s entertainment value has tanked

By Randi Hacker

July 2, 2026

Trump, friends, is boring.*

His entertainment value has plummeted. As Heather Cox Richardson points out (at 20:04) about his flop rally in Pennsylvania: he trotted out and perseverated on his familiar shtick, but his vibe with his audience is “just not working anymore.”

Even hosting the UFC, the fourth most popular major sports entity in the USA according to Fox News, on the White House lawn didn’t boost his ratings. Oh, and then there was this at the Great American State Fair, where the crowd was sparse, and his own supporters, people in red hats, walked out while he was speaking.

Let’s face it: Donald J. Trump’s entertainment value has tanked.

And here in the United States, we are all about entertainment. In fact, I would argue that entertainment is the core principle of American culture. We will watch or do anything if it’s entertaining: from eating bugs on a reality show to driving monster trucks over other cars to watching cat videos on our phones to electing a felon to the highest office in the land. Which sounds like a sitcom, but it’s not. Alas.

I think he [Trump] wants nothing more than to drop a nuclear bomb on someone: It’s not important who; Iran will do it if it comes to that. This is inarguably terrifying and will certainly do nothing to increase his entertainment value.

During Donald J. Trump’s first regime, we were kind of entranced by how entertaining he was. We congratulated ourselves on our wry parsing of what he’d done and our predictions about what he might do next. We gave him nicknames. We imitated him. We revelled in the entertainment to be had in criticizing his mad and cruel behaviour.

But here, two years into his second, inexplicable regime, two years into his biggest con ever, it is clear that it’s just reruns of the same old stuff: lies, bloviation, confabulation, cruelty, vulgarity, money.

And tell me, how many times can a “deal/no deal” be reported as “Breaking News”? Surely this completely contravenes the definition of breaking in this context.

Don’t get me wrong: I still think Donald J. Trump is a clear and present danger to the US and the world. I think he wants nothing more than to drop a nuclear bomb on someone: It’s not important who; Iran will do it if it comes to that. This is inarguably terrifying and will certainly do nothing to increase his entertainment value.

And that might just be the thing that turns America against him and takes him down at last.

* With apologies to John Berryman.

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Feature image: United States Department of Energy – National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, Public Domain, Link

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Randi Hacker lives in the American Midwest.