The vapid Jake Paul is a note-perfect sports hero for these Trumpian times | Ade Khan

Jake Paul earned a reported $ 40 m after for meeting Mike Tyson on Friday night in a highly anticipated fight in Arlington , Texas .

Paul is the embodiment of the United States having a problem child: an outlandish, insensitive, careless white man enraptured in his own ability to cause controversies.

The underwhelming sparring session between Paul and Tyson was backlit by an increasingly mainstream agenda of conservatism into popular culture.

A shift has taken place, shrouded in the spectacle of grandeur and showboating. Where Jake Paul’s toddler-aged boxing career will go from here is unknown. He needs to fight boxers his own age, rather than faded MMA fighters and fellow YouTubers , to be taken seriously. But however he goes about things, you can be sure he will continue to popularize behavior that is, well, problematic. - Ade Khan is a writer from Bangladesh and a lecturer in creative writing at Columbia University ..