{"id":2284601,"date":"2026-02-16T20:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284601"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:29:44","slug":"how-presidents-have-blurred-the-line-between-politician-and-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-presidents-have-blurred-the-line-between-politician-and-celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"How presidents have blurred the line between politician and celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/gavin-newsom-profile-spring-2026\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">Vogue profile<\/a>, reporter Maya Singer calls California Gov. Gavin Newsom \u201cembarrassingly handsome.\u201d He\u2019s a possible 2028 presidential candidate, and the profile is a reminder of how the line between politician and celebrity can be fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p><i>Here &amp; Now<\/i>\u2018s Tiziana Dearing speaks with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cla.purdue.edu\/directory\/profiles\/kathryn-cramer-brownell.html\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Kathryn Brownell<\/b><\/a>, a professor of history and director of the Center for American Political History, Media and Technology at Purdue University, about the role of celebrity and charisma for presidents in the past and present.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis article was originally published on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/02\/16\/president-celebrity\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '1004707423007566',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><script>\/\/ Facebook Pixel Code\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '261265778234049');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wlrn.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Vogue profile, reporter Maya Singer calls California Gov. Gavin Newsom \u201cembarrassingly handsome.\u201d He\u2019s a possible 2028 presidential candidate, and the profile is a reminder of how the line between politician and celebrity can be fuzzy. Here &amp; Now\u2018s Tiziana Dearing speaks with Kathryn Brownell, a professor of history and director of the Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/How-presidents-have-blurred-the-line-between-politician-and-celebrity.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284603,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284601\/revisions\/2284603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}