Trump is a prime example of ignore him and he will go away?
Trump is a prime example of someone who's a celebrity simply for being a celebrity, the first that I was aware of. Ever. In history. He predates Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian by decades, by generations.
When I was a kid, I couldn't figure out who this guy was that kept appearing in the paper. Him at Studio 54, for example. Granted, he wasn't the only one. I scoffed at the likes of Bianca Jagger and Andy Warhol at the Disco too, but at least Bianca was Mick Jagger's ex-wife, and Andy Warhol was some sort of so-called modern pop artist something whatever. So at least there was a reason for them being known. Fact is, all them people in Studio 54 photos were annoying, movie & pop stars, assorted weirdos, glitzy self indulgent attention seekers. But here was this doofus in a tux that simply didn't belong.
Donald Trump was a nobody. But he kept turning up in the papers for absolutely no reason. Why do you think nobody likes him in New York? We've been drowning in his image since 1970s for absolutely no reason. I only found out in 2016 why - it was because he paid for his own publicity, even calling radio & tv stations, newspapers, changing his voice pretending to be his own PR agent.
He didn't build a real estate empire, he built a celebrity empire, a cult of plasticated personality, if you can call it a personality, because he's a little bit short on that as well. Really, think about it, can you define his personality? He's just a salesman selling himself and the himself he's selling is whatever anybody wants to hear that's listening at the moment. Check out interviews of him from decades ago when he was trying to impress himself upon the New York audience.
So to say it's just a matter of ignoring him and he'll go away is absolutely incredulously beyond false. His fame was made to counter the fact that he WAS being ignored. Always. By the public, by a lack of friends, by his father. We all know he has major daddy issues.
Which is where his fandom comes in. Loners, outsiders, rejects who could never truly fit in and yet still don't even have enough to be at least a misfit with at least some aspect of interesting or whimsical from the angle of oddity. THAT'S what they identify with, a man of personality-less pablum consistency offering to vent their pent up anger.
