A void appeared during a CNN interview between Brianna Keilar and Trump’s lawyer and top aide Michael Cohen. The void, which lasted for three eternal seconds, and was instigated by a complete collapse of shared understanding (Keilar lives in the real world where Trump is not doing well in the polls; the latter lives in another unknown world where something else, something completely different is going on). This void was most terrifying. In it, all thought vanished, and from it words could not emerge. There was just this emptiness. Finally, the lawyer says: “Says who?” Meaning: Who is saying Trump is in slump? He has no idea of the world Keilar is talking about. And his words are as empty as the void he exposed us to. They are barely nothing covering totally nothing.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...