{"id":381518,"date":"2018-10-18T18:38:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-terrible-trump-portrait-that-explains-everything\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T18:38:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:38:56","slug":"the-terrible-trump-portrait-that-explains-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-terrible-trump-portrait-that-explains-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"The Terrible Trump Portrait That Explains Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this business, you eventually become enured to Monday mornings that are the mental equivalent of a car accident. You get used to it, mostly, until a morning comes along that is more cognitively akin to a plane crash on the interstate during rush hour, and you find yourself wondering again if investing in a time-share on Neptune might be an idea whose time has come. That was this past Monday, in the form of a painting that falls somewhere in the shade between \u201cDogs Playing Poker<\/a><\/span>\u201d and Revelation 6:1-8<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Those watching Lesley Stahl help Donald Trump self-immolate<\/a><\/span> during their \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview on Sunday night spotted it first, right there on the wall above the vat of Starburst candies: a pastel creamsicle nightmare rendering<\/a><\/span> of Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush sharing a drink and a hearty Republican belly laugh with The Donnybrook himself.<\/p>\n

Cue the squealing tires and shattered safety glass; I saw this thing<\/a><\/span> before I could so much as blow on my first cup of Monday morning coffee, and I\u2019m still trying to come to grips with the experience.<\/p>\n

The internet had a field day, of course. Before Tuesday even had a chance to put its pants on, Twitter was bursting with Photoshop jobs<\/a><\/span> that turned Missouri artist Andy Thomas\u2019s annihilation of time and history into a legitimate cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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One recreation has Trump sitting with Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Bill O\u2019Reilly and other noteworthy perpetrators of sexual assault and harassment unmasked by the #MeToo movement. Another has Trump replaced by a miniaturized version of the baby blimp<\/a><\/span> that has been following him around the world. Still another puts Plaid Shirt Guy<\/a><\/span> over Trump\u2019s right shoulder once again, looking appropriately astonished.<\/p>\n

Yes, all in good fun, and next week some…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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