Boy with Hand Grenade: Our Social Media Roundup

With all the cha0s in Washington, it’s no surprise our Twitter and Instagram feeds have been dominated by the divisive one. One month into the Trump administration, it seems the forecast is for more explosiveness. Regarding a couple of Instagrams, does it seem like that Obama valentine was also a Trump parting shot? Finally, how telling was that protest sign of Trump as Arbus’s famously vexed boy with the hand grenade?

Why is Trump & wind such photo, illustrator candy? Because human tempest can’t tolerate even 1 hair out of place. #faceofdenial @bzelizer https://t.co/sHKFc7BQNM

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) February 16, 2017

#Pence out of loop?? Wonder what larger photo study in critical 1/26-2/9 period would suggest. Here in center of 1/28 Putin call. @Reuters pic.twitter.com/qTwBUCKSMp

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) February 16, 2017

Aesthetics wins out over sledge hammers, we’re afraid.#normalizing #obamacare #aca @nytmag @craigcutlerstudio via @coverjunkie pic.twitter.com/IPRlZbAuVC

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) February 14, 2017

Repackages subversion of truth and bad faith as expression of individuality. @CNN said no, @wpmagazine should have also. #normalizing pic.twitter.com/UmGwWhos5C

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) February 9, 2017

Still love Damon Winter’s pic from #Flynn RNC screed. Like troubled mind not obvious! #kryptonite #trumpfav #flynnresignation @nytimesphoto pic.twitter.com/racHZLxWqe

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) February 14, 2017

To extent @whitehouse target also American #Muslims, @Lucas_Jackson_ photo is a bull’s-eye. @reuterspictures #Yemeniprotest #nyc pic.twitter.com/LjJfZ41dTg

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) February 4, 2017

Hard to know where to start w @alexwongcw shot of #Spicer and WH briefing room. Fishiness?Hallucination? Rabbit hole? pic.twitter.com/ELok580TYE

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) February 16, 2017

Tho #Trudeau trip was warm to pt of patronizing, this (w DJT & Winston) has been getting wide play. It’s the larger symbolism. @reuters pic.twitter.com/XNZfDFLJMe

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) February 14, 2017

Anticipating #Trump era changes to education policy?

📷@robingivhan/Instagram pop-up and “drive-thru” #publicschoolnyc pic.twitter.com/ulIWzZzZTJ

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 31, 2017

NYT op-ed refers to lying, self-deceit but Janus/trophy Rorschach illo clearer: #Trump psychologically unfit to lead https://t.co/Y8f4GgqHPM pic.twitter.com/e80d14YjeK

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 29, 2017

A Darfurian detained by Australia. But @AshGilbertson “rope as gag” photo more universal now as #Trump moves toward #immigrant ban. @nytimes pic.twitter.com/Qg3hkAktSv

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 27, 2017

Imagine this was partly designed w Trump, GOP chaos in mind. @MichelleObama #instagram #valentine ❤to #Barack. … #Repost @michelleobama with @repostapp ・・・ Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life and favorite island mate, @barackobama. #valentines 💕💕

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Feb 15, 2017 at 11:45am PST

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Crowley’s photo speaks to us because Trump (and now 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) has become a hall of mirrors. ⠀ ⠀ Reposting @crowleygraph:⠀ …⠀ “Himself in the colonnade. #presidenttrump #whitehouse”⠀ ⠀ #trump #opticalillusion #strange #column #whitehouse #architecture cc @flakphoto

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Feb 4, 2017 at 2:01pm PST

Any comparison to another monument in a different harbor is strictly accidental. #Repost @nbcnews ・・・ Wrapped in blankets, Sub-Saharan #migrants look towards the coast while aboard the Golfo Azzurro rescue vessel as they are arrive at the port of Messina, in #Italy on Sunday. At least 300 migrants were rescued by Proactiva Open Arms. . Italy has been on the front line of Europe’s migration crisis, coordinating the EU #Mediterranean rescue operation and processing the migrants for asylum. While Italy has demanded the EU do more to help out, the government accepts its obligations to protect those who flee war, said Italy’s deputy foreign minister, Mario Giro. #migration #refugees

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Jan 30, 2017 at 2:37pm PST

Protest dynamic in the social media age: the sign becomes the scroll, tweet or Instagram, and the citizens, the visual editors. Another winner (as demonstrated by repost at the popular indy Flak Photo). #Repost @loistrueblue via @flakphoto ・・・ #womensmarchnyc #womensmarchonnyc #womensmarch #trump #protest #protestsigns #illustration #maturity #grownups #politics

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Jan 24, 2017 at 12:11pm PST