Power elite theory played a significant role in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s among certain sectors of the academic establishment, and among some individuals who would come to constitute the New Left. C. Wright Mills, for instance, in The Power Elite argued that Big Business, Big government, Big Labor and a growing military-industrial complex were coming to dominate American society and politics (Mills 1956). Mills was also one of the first to see that emergent mass media were coming to be a powerful force that served the interests of dominant elites. In this chapter, I describe how Barack Obama overcame his outsider status as a mixed race man of color who was able to win elections and the Presidency of the United States in 2008 and 2012, in large part, because of his mastery of media spectacle and use of broadcast and social media to mobilize a strong base of supporters. I discuss the Obama presidency and how reaction against an outsider man of color as U.S. President helped enable the victory of Donald Trump, following Obama’s presidency, a spectacle of the crisis of the U.S. constitution and system of law I engage in the following and concluding chapter.