He had a toddler's reaction to being fact-checked by an astronaut on Twitter, and because he's him that has policy and spending implications for our government. While he's "just an advisor with no direct power" (to one audience—a court) but "in charge" to another and to all appearances very much is running some important operations.

This shouldn't be ignored, it's one of a thousand things that have happened lately that, very much in living memory, would (any one of them!) have for-sure and for excellent reasons been the end of someone's influence on public life. All of those matter.