Politico Magazine declares that 'The Trump Show Is Over' (but this isn't about Mueller or Russia)


The cover of the just-released May/June issue of Politico Magazinethe physical magazine, as opposed to the websitedeclares in all-caps that “THE TRUMP SHOW IS OVER.” A gif version of the cover produced for social media (above) animates the conceit, as a hand holding a remote control switches off a grainy TV image of the president.

But the storytitled “How the Trump Show Gets Old” inside the magazine and on the webisn’t about what you may think it’s about (the Mueller investigation or other existential crises facing the Trump adminstration). Rather, it’s about the fact that, as the story’s subhead puts it, “A big slump in season two is a hallmark of the president’s entire career. This time the ‘show’ is the White House, and his response will affect the world. So what are we in for?”

Senior Staff Writer Michael Kruse intially does something that many others have done: He draws parallels between Trump’s time on NBC’s “The Apprentice” and his adminstration to date. For instance,

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