Not only is he Auric Goldfinger, now he’s Big Brother from 1984.
That’s the almost inevitable comment made after a giant portrait of Trump showed up as a banner on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Building
I’m flabbergasted. I’ve seen giant portraits of Dictators and leaders of military juntas, but I can’t recall anything like this for a sitting US President.
It’s evidently his Inaugural Portrait, which looks unsettlingly like his Mug Shot.
Did this really need two thread? Couldn’t you have just added it to your one from yesterday?
Nah – they’re two different topics. One is fun and happy (Trump as Goldfinger, if you need the clue), while the other is dark and foreboding and creepy (Trump as fictional authoritarian).
Maybe both existing threads can be combined in a single thread entitled, “Which despotic leader and/or megalomaniac criminal is Donald Trump cosplaying today?”
Given how much he clearly loves the role, vernacular, and trappings of being a dictator (and he even told us he was going to be “only on Day One” as if strongman leaders ever voluntarily relinquish power) it is surprising that anyone is still discounting that his desire is to turn the United States authoritarian regime.
As for Goldfinger, Trump is somehow even more inept. He’s what the villain would be like if the film were directed by Mel Brooks. That being said, he has plenty of ambitious people surrounding him that are perfectly happy to try to use his authority and populism to effect their own dystopian visions of a totalitarian or anarcho-fascist state.
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Agreed.
It’s bad enough that people will take the same news article and post it to the Schadenfreude thread, the “how has Trump pissed you off today” thread, the “stupid MFer” thread, the “Stupid Republican idea” thread, and so on. We have a ton of threads on the same topic in the Pit.