MLK, Immigration & Shutdown: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

On eve of #shutdown, vanity lights speak to just that. How things have devolved. 📷@melinamara @washingtonpost #posturing pic.twitter.com/Ms5PqiVQeU

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 19, 2018

The visual news week is typically filled with events and topics that are more distinct.  Not this time. In a short week, with Trump a constant blur of contradiction, most of the news tied back to race and immigration. Trump’s racist comments last week about immigration policy echoed through a poignant MLK Day, the DACA/CHIP hardball surrounding re-funding the government, and even  45’s most excellent physical and cognitive health check up. (He can walk and chew gum at the same time.) Not to completely forget about #MeToo this week, the pic leading of Trump with Hope Hicks and Sara Sanders was telling too.

So much sentience and might in the shadow and the angle. That, and the contrast. So fitting this year. #MLKDay 📷@WinMc @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/DjAC8psCDh

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 15, 2018

Rather pointed. 📷Kevin Dietsch @UPI #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/QnLJinm9dU

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 15, 2018

Still one more lead pic, this with WAPO story how the pathological Trump driving every faction on both sides crazy. Woo is me! 📷Jim Watson @AFPphoto https://t.co/NVQAN7M51n pic.twitter.com/NE3UruFoVH

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 18, 2018

NYT uses irregular @dougmillsnyt pic from Capitol ceremony yesterday to illustrate Trump’s inexplicable and bizarre undermining of GOP’s shutdown avoidance strategy. Cuts off his nose to spite his face? https://t.co/Eg8wUWaO0k pic.twitter.com/jwrz7KvWBS

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 18, 2018

Today we remember a great man and his work. We read his sermons. We recall his sacrifices. We give back. In doing these things, we raise our gaze and renew the spirit in which we serve one another. Such is the calling of #MLKDay. pic.twitter.com/UpNNtZJ8n5

— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) January 15, 2018

And your head in the other frame, the one with the white pilgrim-igrants from Holland (just a little south of Norway) about to hook up with the Mayflower. On #MLKJrDay, you can’t help but telegraph. https://t.co/OrYK7lXcmd

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 15, 2018

After years living in the U.S. for 30 years, a 39-year-old immigrant in metro Detroit was deported this morning to Mexico. Escorted by ICE agents, he said bye to wife and 2 kids before boarding. He was brought to US from Mexico when he was 10-yrs-old, too old to qualify for DACA: pic.twitter.com/KFPeweaMbG

— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) January 15, 2018

Symbolism of bystander (agent?) looking the other way. https://t.co/yzA6ghMzYI

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 16, 2018

Somehow missed this last week. #Trump presser with PM of #Norway, in front of their flag. How that mind works. 📷Oliver Contreras @SipaUSA pic.twitter.com/CC1V1kwsQm

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 16, 2018

Some of my best friends. 📷#markwilson @GettyImages #MLKDay proclamation pic.twitter.com/6tk3O50iqC

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 14, 2018

Quite an alignment here. As well as evoking his deferment, recalls Trump’s shameful McCain attack: “Heroes don’t get captured.” Photo: Mark Wilson/GettyImages #BobDole ceremony pic.twitter.com/1oLiBRfDy0

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 18, 2018

Somehow doesn’t instill a lot of faith about Dr. Jackson’s medical report. @somogettynews #Trumpcheckup #WalterReed #bodylanguage pic.twitter.com/T30lMxLvMB

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 14, 2018

#Reuters circulating this from their interview yesterday. The extremely rare pic of Trump solely with women staff. (We don’t recall another.) Of course, Hicks and Sanders both down the food chain in comm, also his job. As for tone, a little stormy. How hard he is to mangage. pic.twitter.com/gxCPxh8qSe

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 18, 2018

Spinning a yarn. Didn’t have to go all the way to India to do that. Visual irony of the day. @reuterspictures #Netanyahu #GandhiAshram #Ahmedabad pic.twitter.com/bGGblckmas

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 18, 2018

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS Caption: President Trump confers with White House Communications Director Hope Hicks as White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders listens during an interview with Reuters at the White House, January 17, 2018.