It is not exactly that ‘nothing matters’…It is that nothing matters long enough to matter.
“His tornado of news-making has scrambled Americans’ grasp of time and memory, producing a sort of sensory overload that can make even seismic events — of his creation or otherwise — disappear from the collective consciousness and public view … if memory serves, which it generally does not anymore.”
The Year the News Accelerated to Trump Speed, by Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 29 December 2017