Track whether coverage of this spectacle displaced reporting on the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling or the federal judges blocking Trump's voting restrictions—both far more consequential to your rights.
This is a classic distraction play: using a ceremonial national event for personal branding during a week packed with constitutional crises (Supreme Court birthright ruling, voting order blocks, Bolton plea, Iran military action). The governance harm is minimal—norm erosion around civic ceremony politicization—but the media-volume mismatch is extreme and the timing suspicious. The B-score dominates by 50 points.