. >> jia tolentino, author of "trick mirror, reflections on self-delusion," great writer who am i have admired for a very long time. thank you. >>> still ahead, there is one man who knows how to hold our attention. what does that mean for the next four years of donald trump. next. years of donald trump. next. >>> in some ways the defining feature of the last decade of political discourse has been donald trump is the center of attention. he has dominated the headlines daily since he first came down the golden escalator at trump tower 10 years ago. that is often because trump has a kind of weird, feral genius for getting attention and also, he understands our attention economy. he is, more than any other politician i have covered, willing to embrace negative attention just to keep himself at the center of the conversation. there is a real question of what that does to the national discourse. also a real question of whether he can keep that up in a second term at the ripe old age of 78 when his shtick is getting worn pretty thin. a staff writer for the new yorker who has covered the weigh