Attention Seeking

Some of the Olympic swimmers might be hurt by the escapade and Brian Lochte’s lies, but there’s a good chance he won’t be.

Before the Games began, Ryan Lochte’s post-Olympics plans consisted of moving to Los Angeles to become a celebrity. “I see me being a designer,” he mused. “I see me being a model, I see me being a TV star.”

However much some may wish it to be different, I see none of these things being very much affected by his actions in Rio.
—-Ryan Lochte: an Olympic tale of gold medals and white privilege

I think the author is probably right, but I don’t follow celebrities, so I may never know. Donald Trump, on the other hand….

People run for the presidency for all sorts of reasons. But Donald J. Trump may be the first to run because he sees a presidential campaign as the best way to attract attention to himself. There seems to be no other driving passion in him, certainly not the passion to govern.
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One can well imagine a postelection Citizen Trump crowing that while Hillary Clinton is saddled with four years of headaches and a measly $400,000 salary, he is using the attention he got to make billions more as a media mogul.

Now who’s the loser?
To Trump, Even Losing Is Winning

It will be interesting to see.

 

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13 Responses to Attention Seeking

  1. nick says:

    Yes, once you’re a celebrity, you can do no wrong and your devoted fans will forgive you almost anything as being just part of your whacky, eccentric personality. You have to do something really heinous and outrageous to alienate them.

  2. In this celebrity focused culture, where self-aggrandizing is not only allowed, but encouraged, it wouldn’t surprise me to have Ryan suffer no consequences. Making our athletes rich and famous at each country’s expense is why I can barely stand to watch the Olympics. Something went off the rails here, a long time ago.

  3. tammy j says:

    I recently read an article that said trump never had any intention in winning.
    it started as a media joke that would benefit him… and it has.
    as you say… it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
    as to ryan lochte…
    what an ego!
    it seems our whole celebrity wannabe country is egomaniacal!

  4. Rummuser says:

    Lochte eventually admitted that his behaviour was immature. I hope that the same statement will come from the other attention seeker too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-7RMDkJ3x0

  5. tammy j says:

    oh good grief.
    the word class escapes me.
    even my little Jacob has outgrown ‘potty’ humor.

  6. Looney says:

    I agree with regard to Trump’s character, but am a little skeptical that Trump is the first person to aspire to political office who had some narcissistic tendencies. Also, Trump’s imagined reaction to a Hillary presidency presumes that Hillary won’t sell Taiwan to China for a $billion donation to her, um, “charity”. I expect that she would finish the presidency with a net worth higher than Trump’s.

  7. Cindi says:

    Almost everyone at my work is into the Olympics.
    I could care less.
    I’m not competitive in the least.
    I don’t see the point.
    I also hate watching sports and now this arrogant swimmer…
    it all makes me ill to think about it.

    and Trump and Hillary, they both make me ill too.

    • Cathy in NZ says:

      that’s my stand as well, on Olympics – but then again, my head/body maybe having it’s own Olympics – on strategy = what goes in which box; weight lifting = don’t make box too heavy; gymnastics = seeing items best fit in which box/other….and so on!

      as for D Trump and H Clinton – they are people far away in another land…

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