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\n <\/div>\n\n Firing off another classic Truth Social. Few things were more inevitable than Donald Trump involving himself in the ongoing Sydney Sweeney jeans-homophone debate<\/a>. That Trump would deign to get involved in a culture war is nothing new, but he has been especially attuned to just about everything happening on phone all summer. Never mind the jobs market, never mind the myriad wars \u2014 everyone is posting and so is Trump. He lit into Gayle King after the New York Post<\/a> (his favorite read) wrote that the CBS host\u2019s future at the network was in jeopardy. \u201cGayle King\u2019s career is over. She should have stayed with her belief in TRUMP. She never had the courage to do so. No talent, no ratings, no strength!!!\u201d he wrote on Truth Social<\/a> on August 4. Whereas Trump\u2019s pop-culture zingers had some liveliness to them \u2014 who can forget his updates on the Kristen Stewart\u2013Robert Pattinson saga many years ago<\/a> \u2014 his long-winded nature on Truth Social lacks both a coherence and pop. He\u2019s rambling for rambling\u2019s sake. Maybe the humidity is getting to his brain this summer too.<\/p>\n The CBS host is not the only television-broadcast fixture Trump has been obsessing over, suggesting \u2014 perhaps \u2014 that he would much rather be a guy who is on TV than a guy who tweets about TV. Trump dug into Charlamagne tha God<\/a>\u2019s appearance on Lara Trump\u2019s show (and wondered aloud why the radio host is allowed to refer to himself as a god) in addition to his ongoing thoughts on the late-night television landscape. Though he doesn\u2019t take responsibility for the cancellation of Late Night With Stephen Colbert, he was quick to call out<\/a> Colbert\u2019s \u201clack of talent\u201d before fixing his gaze on the \u201cless funny\u201d Jimmy Kimmel and the \u201cvery insecure\u201d Jimmy Fallon. (Seth Meyers heads \u2014 we\u2019re safe for now.)<\/p>\n Though not quite itching for a new album, Trump has also been singularly obsessed with Taylor Swift over the past few months. When he stood up for Sydney Sweeney\u2019s right<\/a> to promote jeans, Trump also went in on his nemesis, Taylor Swift. \u201cJust look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can\u2019t stand her (HATE!). She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT,\u201d the president wrote a few hours before he posted about King. This was the second time he went in on Swift this summer, reminding people in May about his one-sided feud. \u201cHas anyone noticed that, since I said \u2018I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,\u2019 she\u2019s no longer \u2018HOT?\u2019\u201d the president wrote in reference<\/a> to the time he posted<\/a> \u201cI HATE TAYLOR SWIFT\u201d last fall following her endorsement of Kamala Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n That Trump has been singularly focused on pop culture comes at a time when his reputation \u2014 and that of his administration<\/a> \u2014 has been under fire due to the mishandling of the Epstein files<\/a>. Is it possible that the president would tweet about a jeans commercial to distract the populace from ongoing investigations around his alleged involvement<\/a> with the New York financier<\/a>? That his posts have only become increasingly unhinged, unedited, and unstoppable might lead one to assume Trump has given up on maintaining any sense of coherence or control over the country he ostensibly runs. There are problems at every level, but as far as he\u2019s concerned, none are as great as the television landscape.<\/p>\n
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