Writing in The New York Times about “The Post-Truth Presidency,” Timothy Egan similarly notes that, unlike earlier tendencies to “choose to believe what we want,” this time, these issues regarding the credibility of US presidential candidates did not concern subjective matters of “character” but “existential facts.” 1 A particularly persistent narrative around his election has been the idea that it marks a watershed moment signaling that we live in ‘post-truth’ or ‘post-factual’ times, in a world either “without facts” or “where facts do not matter” (Sullivan). Trump as the forty-fifth President of the United States of America. One of the defining moments of last year-and one that, for many, certainly fueled anxieties of ‘the end of the world’-was the candidacy and eventual election of Donald J. In recent media discourses, the world has been presented not only as radically changed by war, populist politics, and global terrorism but also as most graspable in a postapocalyptic rhetoric. Although Morton’s specific object of inquiry is environmental destruction, many cultural commentators echoed a similar feeling when looking back at 2016. In his 2013 monograph on media theory and climate change, Hyperobjects, Timothy Morton claims that “he end of the world has already occurred” (7). Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert, Jingya Shao, Nadine Wollmann, Boris Alfred Artur Zielinski Brendan Day, Maria Gileva, Jenny Hoang, Caroline Lyle, Maša Ocvirk, Adam Pekár, Anna-Krystina Ramacher, Annika M.
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