Just silly, or might it also play on legitimacy & this @WhiteHouse beyond the trappings? 📷Kevin Dietsch @UPIPhotos #Pence #missinggrownups pic.twitter.com/gpIe3eexae
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 10, 2017
This week in Trump Land was pretty much true to form. After the good (enough) news of the House passing a healthcare bill, Trump freaked out over the Senate’s Russia investigation and fired the FBI Director without letting his staff know. In other words, we saw a little calm, followed by a self-destructive binge and an ensuing political and media storm.
The visuals though seemed a little different. We weren’t seeing that much media mockery. Instead, we were seeing scenes of clear ineptitude and stress, pictures of real political damage (and ammunition for opponents down the road). If feels like the Teflon is wearing off and Trump is burning through the insulation afforded by respect for the Office. We saw photos, like the unintended ones of Trump and the Russians in the Oval, or the late night Conway pic or Spicer squirming through his press briefing, that captured the administration looking desperate, chased out of their parallel universe. (More evidence of that are Ivanka’s pics, often reposted by the White House, trying to defend and deflect.)
I was especially taken by the TIME cover by Benjamin Rasmussen. I don’t think we got our message across very well in the tweet but we couldn’t help appreciating the juxtaposition of DT’s head and the crown-like chandelier. With Trump’s Comey meltdown, are we seeing the would-be king, in the most courtly space in the White House, beating a retreat? In terms of Trump’s viability, could things be coming to a head?
Don’t miss that great photo of the Aussie Senator, by the way. As a point of comparison, it shows how retrograde things in Washington really are.
This should have read: Everything odd then makes perfect sense today….
Everything odd then is perfect today. Torturous glare. Hired help. Best worst pretend face. Framed. @NBC #Comey pic.twitter.com/qSho2bsJWV
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 10, 2017
James addiction pic.twitter.com/YJlROsZvQ4
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 11, 2017
Of all the collateral damage, isolates the embarrassment and ravaged careers Trump leaves in his wake 📷@drewharrer #RodRosenstein #Comey pic.twitter.com/Nc4neHavwI
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 12, 2017
House of pain.
📷@PressSec @GettyImages #Flynn #18days pic.twitter.com/tcQUSBeX6h— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 9, 2017
King of the road. pic.twitter.com/geXi4A57t6
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 11, 2017
Under (political) fire, the visual go-to. 📷@ivankatrump/instagram #TheBerlinCollection #SemperFi pic.twitter.com/zBs5GWjojZ
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 11, 2017
#Lavrov – @realDonaldTrump meeting has just started | В Овальном кабинете началась встреча С.Лаврова с Д.Трампом#RussiaUSA #РоссияСША pic.twitter.com/7raFrkWhiC
— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) May 10, 2017
Visual coup. https://t.co/4K0qZFrxT9
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 10, 201
Been fascinated by this filtered gram by @WhiteHouse PR head @Scavino45. Like Romantic painting from the 1730s. Flight into the sublime? pic.twitter.com/R1H8FgmtOj
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 11, 2017
Quarantine. pic.twitter.com/sdIAxuOQ49
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 10, 2017
Just getting started, #healthcare bill priming visual epidemic. Mind the mask. 📷@olsongetty @gettyimages Ron Blum IA #GOP #townhall pic.twitter.com/0xndxbDgoS
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 9, 2017
In contrast to Beltway boys club, Aussie’s 1st senator to #breastfeed in Parliament. That’s #healthcare. 📸 Sen. Larissa Waters @CNN pic.twitter.com/QnENtP0XgF
— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 9, 2017
Hold the lilies!
RT 📷@andrewfeiler
Mother’s Day. Guns. #YouCantMakeThisUp pic.twitter.com/Rnsci5c9f1— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 8, 2017
— Michael Shaw
Photo: Kevin Dietsch/UPI Photos via Instagram. Caption: A child attempts to remove the seal from the lectern as Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks at an event honoring military families. May 9, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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