What in God’s Name is This?Posted on February 13, 2018, 9:16 am by Keith Koffler
For decades, Americans are going to trek to the National Portrait Gallery and have to look at this. I’d say centuries, but if this is how we portray our leaders, we definitely won’t last that long.
Let’s start with the composition. You have cartoonish-looking man in a chair. The man and his chair seem to have been pasted into a painting of a garden. The juxtaposition isn’t jarring or thought-provoking. It’s just peculiar. The president looks peculiar.
Now, he does look resolute. As if he intends to remove not just a few weeds from the garden, but every last one of them. Once, he smoked a lot of weed. Now he removes a lot of weed. See those pinkish-red buds behind him? They are going to bloom, dammit!
But I guess this is the perfect metaphor for a society that, at least among its elite, is trying to erase all traces of masculinity from the culture. ...
Rest of article at White House Dossier.