Biden’s The Interesting One

For eight years, American politics has been built around a mistaken assumption: that Donald Trump is interesting. Trump has definitely gotten more boring in recent years. His schtick is tired, his signature riffs have lost whatever ability they once had to shock, and he’s having to resort to more and more inflammatory statements to get anyone to take notice. The “Trump is boring now” article has become a subgenre unto itself, and many of the country’s pundits have written one over the last few years.

But that isn’t quite what I mean. I mean that Donald Trump has never been particularly interesting, at least on a human level. Trump was marketed to us as the man who would finally make politics engaging, who would add a little spice to our bland elections. He behaved in new ways — refusing to act “presidential” because, if he acted with dignity his audience would “be out of here right now… you’d be so bored.” He said things that were beyond the pale and lied with an unprecedented flagrancy and frequency. He seemed like a fascinating character at first. Here was a brash, wealthy businessman who had been a reality-TV star, a Twitter addict, and a brittle narcissist. He’d had a turbulent personal life, which he lived almost entirely in the public eye. A whole cottage industry emerged that was devoted to digging into Trump’s psyche — books and articles that attempt to lift the veil, to let us know what makes this man tick.

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