“He’s still using a lot of the kind of moral-emotional language that we know attracts attention,” Robertson said of Trump’s social posts as a whole. Advertisement“Thank you for your attention to this matter” is a phrase that asserts control of a situation and its messaging. “From a clinical standpoint, the repeated use of the phrase ‘thank you for your attention to this matter’ may read as more than formality. “It’s assuming that everyone is giving this attention,” Robertson said. AdvertisementIt’s true that this formal ending doesn’t often accompany the memes Trump posts criticizing other politicians or a call to buy his son’s new book.
