<em>Will & Grace & Donald</em>

This post reveals plot points about the Season 9 premiere of Will & Grace.

Earlier this year, the New York Times technology columnist Farhad Manjoo conducted an experiment. For a week, he tried to ignore news about Donald Trump. And for a week, he failed. He could find, Manjoo noted, “almost no Trump-free part of the press.” What he learned instead from his Trump-filled “Trump-free” period was that “coverage of Mr. Trump may eclipse that of any single human being ever”—and that the president is helped along in his osmotic form of fame by his apparent transcendence of politics themselves: Trump permeates the world’s events and the stories that are told about them, even when the stories are not about the workings of government. The 45th president, as a result, has become profoundly unavoidable, there even when he is not—“the ether,” , “through which all other stories flow.”