President Trump’s Mug shot!

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Trump’s jail spectacle is historic, but it won’t harm him politically. — Sam Levine (writing in the Guardian)

Mugshots define eras.

Bugsy Siegel peering malevolently from beneath his fedora in a 1928 booking photo summed up the perverse romance of gangsters in the prohibition age…

Now comes what Donald Trump Jr described as “the most iconic photo in the history of US politics” before the booking picture of his father glaring into the camera was even taken…

Trump’s hostility shines through as he turns his eyes up toward the camera above him and in his taut, downturned mouth as he is booked into the Fulton county jail on charges of trying to steal the 2020 presidential election….

The picture … conveys the message many of Trump’s supporters want to hear – belligerence…

The former president’s supporters are already embracing the booking photo as a badge of honour and defiance. It will be held up as evidence that their man will not give up the fight …

For Trump … the picture is likely to prove yet another money spinner. The mugshot’s rapid appearance on T-shirts, posters and, well, mugs glorifying a martyred Trump can be expected.

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My comment:

This photo is a clever, well rehearsed propaganda “victory” for Trump. Another victory for “image” over substance in our increasingly media-maddened society. Americans can never get enough of cleverly packaged “heroes” — whatever the dark and criminal reality lurking behind the con.

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Pathetic, I agree. Imagine having such a vapid, meaningless life you wait around for DAYS for a picture of a man you don't know and will never meet.

Like it's a holiday.

Who's obsessed again?
The wheels of justice and karma turn slowly and not always in the direction we expect, but a gutter creep who steals from cancer kids has finally been arrested and booked.

Life is good.
 

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