Why Is Trump Still Hogging the Limelight?

A reader sent me the question above and speculates: Once you give that sick type of person attention they can’t live with less. They freak out without it!

That’s a solid answer, but there is another.  At this point, Trump understands that maintaining popularity is the only thing that will prevent his going to prison.  If he can return to the White House he may even try to pardon himself. At least he’ll have executive privilege and other kinds of power to protect himself and foil attempts to prosecute him.  Even if he never wins public office again, the Justice Department might think twice about taking actions that will send tens of millions of hateful idiots into hysterics.

Another way to answer the question is to look at the media.  If they would simply stop covering him, he’d become irrelevant more or less immediately.

Why does anyone care what Trump will say in a speech on Veterans Day?  We already know that he’s a draft-dodger who has nothing but contempt for U.S. military personnel, that he bypassed the Marine Corps’ justice system and pardoned war criminals, and that he thinks our generals are incompetent.  Do we really need to hand him a microphone and let him carry on about how much better a president he was than Biden?

Just shut him up.