Oxygen, Please. Stat!

"There's no such thing as bad publicity." P.T. Barnum

Over the years, the one thing Trump has been successful at has been garnering media attention, most often for negative reasons. He’s lived his life according to the P.T. Barnum philosophy of publicity. The 2024 campaign has been no exception. Whether it’s mugging and thanking imaginary fans at the 9/11 memorial ceremony or claiming during the debate that Harris “put out” or repeating racist lies about pet-eating immigrants, Trump continues to indulge in the only skill that he’s truly mastered — sucking all the oxygen out of the room.

Since the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris has been traveling the country, doing retail politics — campaigning in the swing states and building enthusiasm from the ground up. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has largely been absent from the campaign trail — doing one campaign event per week and leaving the rest to his toady surrogate, J.D. Vance. Yet most of the “buzz” around the presidential race has still been around Trump.

The media hav…