# Jon McNaughton's latest Trump atrocity **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175 "2019-08-24T19:51:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/1 "2019-08-24T19:51:07Z")
> Yech. That’s not a thumb sticking out of that pallet… Caution, some posted reply pics are NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/2 "2019-08-24T20:09:09Z")
This is the most understated, least retarded McNaughton painting ever. Sure, he is super wrong about how history will see The King of the Jews and The Chosen One, but at least the pants-on-head symbolism and revisionist nuttery is greatly tamped down. That he’s sitting in a cathedral is somewhat underplayed and there is not one single solitary glistened-teared bald eagle to be found. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/3 "2019-08-24T20:21:15Z")
Lots of paintings I’ve seen also have a bafflingly mesomorphic cheeto. Our standards of yech are lamentably much lower than this. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/4 "2019-08-25T15:37:43Z")
All the best artists smirk as they unveil their masterpieces. Everyone says so. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/5 "2019-08-25T16:37:09Z")
[Moderating] All I’m seeing in this OP is a Twitter link, a cryptic comment, and something about a Trump atrocity. None of those things seems to relate to art, so I’ll be moving this. Given that it’s about some sort of “atrocity”, I assume that the BBQ Pit is the correct place. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/6 "2019-08-25T17:25:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > [Moderating] > > All I’m seeing in this OP is a Twitter link, a cryptic comment, and something about a Trump atrocity. None of those things seems to relate to art, so I’ll be moving this. Given that it’s about some sort of “atrocity”, I assume that the BBQ Pit is the correct place. You could have salved your bewilderment by clicking the link. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/7 "2019-08-25T17:29:02Z")
McNaughton also did this one - [Obama Foreign Policy](https://jonmcnaughton.com/patriotic/obama-foreign-policy/). It depicts the President playing golf and ignoring the threat of a third world country which is developing nuclear weapons. And the President is Barack Obama. McNaughton is apparently serious. There’s no hint that he’s aware of the irony in his choice of subjects. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/8 "2019-08-25T18:33:05Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > This is the most understated, least retarded McNaughton painting ever. Sure, he is super wrong about how history will see The King of the Jews and The Chosen One, but at least the pants-on-head symbolism and revisionist nuttery is greatly tamped down. That he’s sitting in a cathedral is somewhat underplayed and there is not one single solitary glistened-teared bald eagle to be found. I don’t know. Based on what we can see in the corner of the painting, I imagine it’s a vision of what the air in America will look like after we switch over to burning clean coal for all of our energy needs. Or, possibly, the steam over the oceans as they boil away when the Earth starts approaching a Venus-like atmosphere. Either way, I think it’s safe to say the painting is a fair representation of how Trump will be remembered by history. Well, I say history, that’s kind of an iffy term after every living thing on Earth is dead, but, you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/9 "2019-08-25T21:08:39Z")
I’m pretty sure the picture behind the curtain is a new color scheme for Air Force One. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/10 "2019-08-25T21:54:55Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > You could have salved your bewilderment by clicking the link. I still think the Pit is the best place for this, so folks can say what they really think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/11 "2019-08-25T22:20:06Z")
Dear god, that’s fucking hilarious. Like, total MST3K level fodder. It’s just BEGGING for parody. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/12 "2019-08-25T22:32:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > McNaughton is apparently serious. There’s no hint that he’s aware of the irony in his choice of subjects. I do hope he receives all the photo-shopped mockery he so richly deserves. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/13 "2019-08-25T22:34:56Z")
[A bunch of people already are, it seems](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jon-mcnaughton-trump-memes-1631806) And it isn’t the first time: “[One Nation Under Cthulhu](https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/blogs/art-spotlight-one-nation-under-cthulhu.htm)” ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/14 "2019-08-25T22:40:28Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I still think the Pit is the best place for this, so folks can say what they really think about it. I agree, as there was already a [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=880758) a few days ago. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/15 "2019-08-25T23:28:47Z")
That painting is the beautiful-est, patriotic-est, accurate-est, most wonderful painting I’ve ever seen in my life. Now, do I keep my Medicare and survivor benefits, Don? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/16 "2019-08-25T23:34:05Z")
Holy God, I see these are for sale, who would actually buy one of these besides Jeffrey Epstein or something? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/17 "2019-08-26T00:19:11Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Holy God, I see these are for sale, who would actually buy one of these besides Jeffrey Epstein or something? Pence. ETA: And Lindsey Graham. ETAA: And come to think of it, Roger Stone and Devin Nunes. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/18 "2019-08-26T00:23:24Z")
I could see Hannity with one. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/19 "2019-08-26T00:25:20Z")
Ok I bet Rush Limbaugh would buy one too! And then sell it to his listeners for 200% profit. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175/20 "2019-08-26T00:30:45Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I could see Hannity with one. [Vice](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwp8d7/meet-the-maga-painter-creating-pro-trump-art-sean-hannity-loves): > [@](#): > > The day after Donald Trump stunned the predictors and won the presidency, Sean Hannity showed his Fox News viewers what he thought “this election is all about." He filled the screen with a painting depicting Barack Obama defiantly standing on the Constitution while a dejected man in a hooded jacket sits slumped on a park bench, ignored by the president. > > The 2011 painting was called the “The Forgotten Man,” a phrase Trump himself had used in his victory speech the night before when he pledged that “the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.” Hannity was so taken with the painting by Utah artist Jon McNaughton that he called him that day and bought the 40” x 60” original. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-mcnaughtons-latest-trump-atrocity/839175.md?page=2)