Nepo Baby of the Week: This F***ing Guy
Every now and again, the circumstances of one’s life converge in a single incandescent moment to illustrate how absurd this world really is. Take, for instance, this scene from my Thursday afternoon this week: I had just cracked open my second Diet Coke of the day when I found out from a chain text message that Donald Trump had been convicted. The exact words that ushered this knowledge into my life? “Daddy Trump is CUMvicted on ALL Charges ???? UH OH.”
UH OH, indeed! As both a U.S. citizen and a writer of nepo baby content, I knew that Trump’s verdict would have a seismic impact on my life. North West’s widely derided Lion King performance at the Hollywood Bowl performance was a strong contender for this week’s column, but now, how could we possibly talk about anything else?
“Daddy Trump” is the nepo baby to end all nepo babies—the son of a real estate mogul who somehow managed to fail upward out of the family business and into a TV career, and once that languished under the weight of his unbearable personality (and, okay, fine, the general collapse of TV viewership), he went and clawed his way to the top of another dying institution—our crumbling democracy. Now, he’s our first former president to be convicted of a crime, and while incarcerated people are not even allowed to vote, this man—this man—can run for president. Washed-up and legally embattled reality stars everywhere are taking note. Jen Shah’s release is supposedly coming in August 2028, so keep an eye out for that senatorial campaign, I guess!