On a voice – Clare Malone in The New Yorker:

‘The Manhattan grand jury’s indictment is a complex story, and an early test of whether the media has learned any lessons about how to healthily metabolize a Trump news cycle. There’s the political angle: Trump is fund-raising off of the indictment, and Republicans are calling the prosecutorial work of Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, politically motivated. There’s the Bragg angle: he killed an earlier Trump case before bringing the current charges, the legal underpinnings of which even some sympathetic onlookers have called into question. And there’s the historical context: what does it say about this moment in American democracy that the former President and current G.O.P. front-runner could end up in jail? Back in 2017, around the time Axios published its Trump-news-cycle chart, I vividly remember getting into the car after a lovely, long beach weekend, turning on the radio, and having the Trump-filled news rush into my ears, pushing out the pleasant crunch of shell gravel, popping beer tops, and waves. He was as inescapable as a sunburn. On Monday, as I watched Trump’s private plane touch down at LaGuardia—and then his motorcade wend its way on the Grand Central Parkway toward Manhattan—that moment came back to me; the Trump reprieve is officially over. His voice will be back in your head soon enough.’

Read the article here.

A strange metaphor – inescapable as sun burn. Use more sunscreen.

The excitement about Trump in Europe seems to have faded away.

Now Tarantino should make a biopic about Trump and then it’s all over.

Testosterone as a secret or not so secret weapon.