Trump's American Reality Show...
If the lead-up to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination announcement feels like reality-TV drama , it’s because that’s exactly how it was designed. But instead of a one-year contract as Trump’s errand boy, the “winner” on Monday night will likely nab a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land and a chance to reshape American law and jurisprudence for generations. The high stakes of the announcement were nevertheless preceded by a day of wild speculation and tea leaf-reading, designed, some conservatives briefed on the nomination process believe, to prevent a leak of Trump’s decision by flooding the zone with contradictory information. It’s characteristic of a president who revels in the political press spinning its wheels, and is naturally inclined to the sort of primetime TV drama that he helmed as host of NBC’s The Apprentice . “There are few people in politics, or entertainment for that matter, who have a better understanding of marketing than the p...