Trump \"joked\" that Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump and also serves as a White House strategist, has \"become much more famous than me,\" adding: \"I'm a little bit upset about that.\"<\/p>\n
Ah ha ha ha. Ha. Ahem. Cough.<\/p>\n
That's not to say Kushner will follow Comey's trajectory. He almost certainly won't -- because Trump values nothing as much as he values loyalty to family. <\/p>\n
But even though Kushner isn't on his way out of the White House anytime soon, Trump's aside about his fame is revealing -- in two ways. <\/p>\n
1. Trump views the entire world through the lens of fame and notoriety: Trump's measure of success is money, sure. But, even more importantly, it's fame. Lots of people are rich. Not all of those people are also cultural figures. He is. And he uses himself as a measuring stick by which to gauge others and his interactions with them. <\/p>\n
Trump is a public figure who embraces that status with both arms. Fame is the way you can tell the winners from the losers in life. <\/p>\n
2. Trump makes very little distinction between good press and bad press: Like most people who crave and court the spotlight, Trump isn't someone to split hairs about how positive or negative the coverage of him is. <\/p>\n
Sure, he will thunder about how the media is so against him. But true defeat in Trumpworld is not bad press, it's no press. <\/p>\n
Trump's asides and \"jokes\" -- not to mention his tweets -- are almost always more revealing than his formal speeches and statements. This \"famous\" comment is no exception. <\/p>\n
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