Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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From renaming Lake Ontario to outlandish memes, Donald Trump has rewritten the rules of political communication. For The National, CBC’s Ashley Fraser breaks down how the U.S. president used distraction to dominate the attention economy — and asks: is the strategy deliberate?

00:00 The art of the distraction
01:21 Is it a deliberate strategy?
01:53 Simple, soundbite messages
02:52 A challenge for journalists

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