"By now, it is a truism that Donald Trump is a showman: a President who lauds appointees with talk of "central casting," and workshops his riffs onstage while gauging the crowd's reaction. "He succeeded in making all political and media actors into actors," Olivia Nuzzi writes, near the end of her much anticipated new memoir, " American Canto." Nuzzi evidently includes herself among these figures, which strikes a note of surprising passivity. If she's an actor, it's because she made herself into one."
"Now the memoir at the center of it all is here. Plus: The Scandalous Rollout Was the Best Part of Olivia Nuzzi's Memoir Keep reading " How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe "American Canto" arrives following a media bonanza around the reporter's relationship with R.F.K., Jr. The book itself isn't nearly as interesting. Why would Trump pardon Hernández when he is also ramping up a military campaign against drug traffickers abroad? By Molly Fischer"
A salacious drama involving two journalists, a lightning-rod politician, and head-spinning accusations dominated media gossip and centered on a reporter's high-profile relationship with R.F.K., Jr. Publicity around the episode proved more compelling than the substance it amplified, and the rollout eclipsed the underlying material. Observers portray Donald Trump as a showman who turns political and media figures into performers, and the reporter is depicted as including herself among those performers. Separate coverage highlights the rise of ultra-luxurious stadium suites and examines Donald Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted on drug-trafficking charges.
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