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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump portrait: you couldn't create a creepier Yuletide scene if you tried
With all the horror of this week, here's something on the lighter, creepier, side from The Guardian
Trump portrait: you couldnt create a creepier Yuletide scene if you tried
The absence of intimacy in the Trumps official Christmas portrait freezes the heart. Can it be that hard to create a cosy image of the presidential couple, perhaps in front of a roaring hearth, maybe in seasonal knitwear? Or is this quasi-dictatorial image exactly what the president wants to project? Look on my Christmas trees, ye mighty, and despair! ...
You couldnt create a creepier Yuletide scene if you tried. Multiple Christmas trees are currently a status symbol for the wealthy, but this picture shows the risks. Instead of a homely symbol of midwinter cheer, these disciplined arboreal ranks with their uniform decorations are arrayed like massed soldiers or colossal columns designed by Albert Speer. The setting is the Cross Hall in the White House and, while the incumbent president cannot be held responsible for its architecture, why heighten its severity with such rigid, heartless seasonal trappings?
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Trumps shark-like grin has nothing generous or friendly about it. ... In this picture, he gives full vent to his inner tyrant. If this portrait contains any truth about the state of America and the world, may Santa help us all.
You couldnt create a creepier Yuletide scene if you tried. Multiple Christmas trees are currently a status symbol for the wealthy, but this picture shows the risks. Instead of a homely symbol of midwinter cheer, these disciplined arboreal ranks with their uniform decorations are arrayed like massed soldiers or colossal columns designed by Albert Speer. The setting is the Cross Hall in the White House and, while the incumbent president cannot be held responsible for its architecture, why heighten its severity with such rigid, heartless seasonal trappings?
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Trumps shark-like grin has nothing generous or friendly about it. ... In this picture, he gives full vent to his inner tyrant. If this portrait contains any truth about the state of America and the world, may Santa help us all.
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Trump portrait: you couldn't create a creepier Yuletide scene if you tried (Original Post)
pat_k
Dec 2018
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CatMor
(6,212 posts)1. Not hard to do when both people are creepy and weird.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)2. The grinch who caused a shutdown just before Christmas
couldn't care less about what's supposed to be he meaning of Christmas. He's absolutely indifferent to the thousands of federal workers who will go without paychecks, many of them working anyway including his own Secret Service.
But we're all allowed to say Merry Christmas! At long last!
Jim__
(14,077 posts)3. Trump could read the article, look at the picture, and not know what they're talking about.
It's such a nice picture.
akraven
(1,975 posts)4. Can we just say
ICK!!!
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)5. I call it "Filthy Shades of Orange" nt
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)6. Melanie and donald are inauthentic aka as fakes. Compare to the Obamas...
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)7. Melania looks like she's wearing a full body condom.
Which would be understandable...
populistdriven
(5,644 posts)9. His hair looks like a penis
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)8. I'm not trump fan but that article is over the top