TRUMP’S SECRET WEAPON: People Don’t Want To Be Bored, And Trump-Hatred Has Become Boring.

UPDATE: How boring? This boring:

We watched the Trump rally, then tried to hang around for some of the WHCD, but we got tired of the blah-blah from faces we didn’t know and when they launched into giving themselves awards, it was way too tedious. It’s just another banquet. Who would watch an industry banquet — giving out awards to itself — on TV? There was a long draped table on the dais, and little heads slumped back behind big, embarrassing floral arrangements.

I’d be bored if I were in the industry and forced to attend and sit at one of the stodgy tables, so why would I watch such a thing on TV? Because it’s on television? Because at some point — they’re promising — a comedian will appear behind the lectern and tell jokes? Because the jokes will be about the President? But all the comedians have for years been telling all the Trump they can think of. What could possibly be new?

Nothing. Nothing at all. Under Obama, the press was allowed to pretend that it was made up of celebrities on a par with Hollywood stars. Under Trump, it’s been stripped of that delusion. And they’ll never forgive him for that.

Related: For Kennedy, the waiting for WHCD headliner Hasan Minhaj to be funny was the hardest part.