Jim Acosta

Kayfabe: staged public feuds that secretly benefit both sides

Shaan explains 'kayfabe,' a wrestling term for a pre-agreed fake fight, and applies it to Trump vs. CNN's Jim Acosta: the daily clash produces juicy content for the network and rallying attention for Trump, so neither side actually stops it.

“there's this wrestling term called kayfabe, K-A-Y-F-A-B-E, and he's like Okay, what kayfabe is, is like, you know, in wrestling, it's basically— wrestling is a fake fight, right? WWE, it's like a prearranged sort of agreed-upon fake fight where I'm the hero and you're the heel”