08 September 2018

Battle of the Trump Administration Alumni: Bannon vs. Flynn vs. Cohn vs. Spicer vs. Manigault

Let's see how some well-known Trump administration alumni have fared in Google web searches since the presidential election (using Google Trends): Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Gary Cohn, Sean Spicer and Omarosa Manigault.


Overall, Bannon is the "winner." The peaks coincide among others with the person's introduction to the public limelight (e.g., Bannon) or when they left the administration (e.g., Spicer) or when they published a tell-all book (e.g., Manigault) or when they struck a plea bargain (e.g., Flynn).

A compared breakdown by state:


Only North Dakota and Minnesota (Spicer), and Vermont (Fllynn) were more interested in someone who wasn't Bannon.