It was inevitable that Sarah Palin would endorse Donald Trump for president, or Donald Trump would endorse Sarah Palin for president, from the moment she arrived in New York on her “will she or won’t she” One Nation tour back in 2012. The two reality TV celebrities munched pepperoni pizza together and chewed the fat about politics and media stardom as news cameras, paparazzi and tourists all took pictures from the other side of a window. The cable news networks all excitedly carried the silent luncheon live on TV. It was reported in Entertainment Weekly, as well as the New York Times.

These two political hucksters have managed to combine celebrity and xenophobia into a new breed of conservativism