I was perusing the White House Flickr feed looking for an image for a post I am working on, and came across a couple of shots that I wanted to quickly highlight.
For example, this one:
As a photograph, it is great as it captures a specific moment of absurdity and boredom on Musk’s part. It also draws attention to the ongoing insertion of Trump-branded symbology into American politics.
On the one hand, meetings suck (even important ones). But on the other hand, this is a meeting of the cabinet of the US government, and it is centered around merch.
You will note that at this cabinet meeting, everyone got “Gulf of America” hats.
And man, Rubio more often than not looks miserable while all the other members of Team Trump are having a grand time.
See, also.
But, again, Trump loves his merch. And actually, as I have noted before, I think the constant ways in which he brands himself, and not the country or the office, is not healthy nor appropriate.
This photo looks like the Easter Bunny is about to be sent to CECOT.
I know art is subjective, but sometimes it feels like the White House photographers are trolling Trump with some of these images, like the one above (and the one I used for the main photo for this post at the top).
For example, this is a really good photo, but the blurred foreground and the black and white make it look like Trump is both somewhat ominous and also in a bit of a fog. Although given his official photo and the way he has leveraged his mugshot, he may have requested ominous.
Not to mention the unflattering sideshot.
The unholy trinity of stupid health care policy.
Which is just a reminder of how much Trump likes TV charlatans.
Same theme, different TV charlatan.
Let me conclude on a geeky note. Is that the Genesis device?
