Just the right note of defiance!
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Must admit (and will do so under oath) the faceless bureaucrats at Blaska Policy Werkes were transfixed upon the release of Donald J. Trump’s police mug shot late Thursday 08-24-23. Photograph was taken by a true camera artiste after the 45th President submitted peacefully and patriotically to face criminal racketeering charges.
The Fulton County Sheriff’s artwork will be stapled to the walls of thousands of machine sheds and honkytonks south of Richmond.
We think the image may be hypnotizing us. (Let us know if we quack like a duck.) Miracles may be attributed to it. (“Ida” Hutchinson doubling his polling to 2% would qualify.)
The photograph is studio quality, well composed and lighted. As artful as anything by Diane Arbus, Annie Leibovitz, or Richard Avedon. Captures the controlled fury of an organized crime boss who only wants to Make America Great Again but is stymied at every step by the Deep State and Joe Biden’s child trafficking ring.
This is the photograph Trump should choose for his Forever postage stamp. Will define his visual history as does Alexander Gardner’s 1863 photo of Abraham Lincoln or the 1941 Yousuf Karsch photograph of Winston Churchill. As iconic as Marilyn Monroe’s white dress blowing upward in The Seven Year Itch and George Orwell’s Big Brother.
Jonathan Turley, the GWU law professor and Fox News apologist, called the mug shot “a type of trophy kill.”
Indeed, CNN kept it on-screen for most of the night. (Haven’t checked but it may very well have burned into the cathode ray tube of our b&w Philco.) We were unaware that defense attorneys factor the impact of their clients’ booking photographs. (Our public defender never did!) But Turley confides:
We often discuss the long-standing question of whether it is better for your client to smile or not smile in a mugshot. Some believe a smile conveys a lack of contrition while others view a frown as looking guilty. In the first mugshot of a former American president, Trump rejected both the “carefree smile” and the “disapproving frown” and went with seething scowl. It is a mugshot that unfortunately will resonate with both extremes in our political system.
— Jonathan Turley, “The snap and the scowl“
We remember former Texas congressman Tom DeLay smiling, seemingly unconcerned, in his booking shot for money laundering. His conviction was ultimately overturned. The hardened criminal in the cop shot below took a different approach (guessing her fluffy puppy got his own mug shot):
Blaska’s Bottom Line: THE MUG SHOT feels like unalloyed Trump. No focus grouping, no polling. This unapologetic RINO must admit the man is the most instinctual performance artist of our time. (Alright, sometimes I kid but now I’m not.) We can only hope that our own police mug shot is as evocative as that of the godfather, Donald J. Trump!
It is our wish that every American’s criminal booking photograph be as compelling.
15 responses to “Trump’s mug shot is a masterpiece!”
Dave, you beat me fair and square and manly-like!
https://schmaltz.typepad.com/wal_sheeit/2023/08/fun-with-defendant-p01135809.html
Li’l Petey displays the typical despicable Lefty approach to philosophical/political differences; suspend/deny constitutional protections, ignore centuries old jurisprudence, and jettison personal beliefs for people with the temerity to see things differently.
Quoth Li’l Petey on Donald Trump: I’ve marched against the death penalty,BUT I’M WILLING TO MAKE AN EXCEPTION HERE
Li’l Petey was promptly, and hilariously b!tchslapped into the cheap seats by the estimable Mordecai The Red, and another (arguably) deft bloggeur who shall remain nameless.
Li’l Petey is a typicalSchrödinger’s Douchebag who laughably sees himself as part of the solution, blissfully unaware that he’s THE PROBLEM!
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It’s a new icon – classic. In b/w it’s an Avedon.
Gary Knowles
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“In b/w it’s an Avedon.”
Agree, Gary. Or a Leibovitz.
The Donald’s hair is perfectly moussed and shiny, makeup not too orange except in the frown lines.
That fierce resting face is a spontaneous bit of theater.
There should be betting odds put on how many hours Trump spent practicing his faux Churchill scowl, as Hitler did here: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hitler-rehearsing-speech-front-mirror-1925/
Me 5 to 1 on more than 25 hours.
I would guess he worked on it while on the flight to Georgia. But, that scowl is very natural for him.
Republicans and Democrats will be buying t-shirts with this great mugshot.
I want one.
Real(80)ity,
The t-shirt could have “Presidents Behaving Badly”printed above the mugshot.
I suspect this image will end up on a postage stamp; one can only hope.
Shirts with “Inmate P01135809” below the picture should sell well.
Best bulldog shot ever. When I saw it, I wanted to dance. Couldn’t be better
May be double replying; but absolutely loved this defiant bulldog shot. Couldn’t be better.
Works for me.
Waiting to hear when the first miraculous cure will be attributed to it.
Ah, the donald, always playing the tough guy. But real tough guys don’t have to play act. And being a flabby, wide-assed 215 with a spray tan and a cheesy comb-over doesn’t help the image.
And now the liar-in-chief is channeling S.T. Coleridge: “…- I’d fly far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir, never to be seen or heard from again”. We can only hope.