https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/08/25/25376648/what-the-tweet-of-trump-eclipsing-obama-means
Trump’s presidency is about how he experienced Obama’s presidency, about how it perpetually preoccupied and consumed his thoughts like a Zahir. And so we have a presidency that reflects Trump’s madness and not the common form of a presidency, which combines periods of absence with those of presence.