> The most powerful man in the US right now is just a reality TV star.

That's a strange characterization; he was famous across the country before there was even a concept of "reality TV".

He was known by an order of magnitude more people after he became a reality tv star.

	▲	bnjms an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Right. He parlayed his fame into reality stardom. I added it’s a word way to put it. He became more famous generally but he was already known to NY and powerful people.