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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 01:30 PM Jan 2017

Lets Spend a Few Minutes with This Photo of Donald Trump, Shall We

by JOEL GOLBY



Let's talk about sex, bay-bee / let's talk about you– and –me / let's talk about every single pixel of this photo please:


For context: this is the tweet President-elect Donald J. Trump sent yesterday, which as best as I can tell had two primary objectives and one secondary objective:

Slowly put a smooth face on the first in a long, long, long, long, long line of Twitter-disseminated propaganda to be expected over the next four to eight years;
2. Launch the new official Twitter-endorsed #Inauguration emoji-hashtag, which, seeing as Donald Trump doesn't ever use hashtags – I don't think he knows how to access the deep menu on his phone for secondary symbols – and, because the text of this tweet is relatively well punctuated and un-insane, presumably means it was written, approved and sent by a member of staff, and not by DJT himself *1;

And:

3. Confirm to the world that yes, god, he is definitely working on his speech, god, shut up. Like: I used to pull this exact pose at my desk when I was supposed to have been doing homework for hours but had actually just been playing Sonic 2 on the Megadrive, and a parent or parents were checking up on me to make sure I was doing what I was supposed to be doing and not playing Sonic 2 on Megadrive, and I would hustle and rush into this exact pose, a placid simulation of working. Notebook tilt and everything. This was exactly me.

But what's going on in this photo is the question, really. Because there's a lot going on. And we are going to inhale the entire thing like a musky, complex whisky, and see what bones come out. Come. Come with me. Come with me on a journey. A journey into this photo of Donald Trump.

more

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/lets-spend-a-few-minutes-with-this-photo-of-donald-trump-shall-we?utm_source=vicefbuk&utm_campaign=global

He does make some excellent points!

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Lets Spend a Few Minutes with This Photo of Donald Trump, Shall We (Original Post) n2doc Jan 2017 OP
They moved the desk into the royal flushatorium randr Jan 2017 #1
Now we know where he tweets from at 3AM Pachamama Jan 2017 #6
My eyes! 2naSalit Jan 2017 #2
Lmao! That eagle is "super super pissed" cwydro Jan 2017 #3
Isn't that the same eagle award he was given by the mafia guy on NYE? Pachamama Jan 2017 #7
Also, plus and ultra are words usually seen on packages of toilet paper. nt pinboy3niner Jan 2017 #4
Blank note pad (brand new) and a freakin Sharpie! Cattledog Jan 2017 #5
He never has to erase IronLionZion Jan 2017 #8
Where are his eyes focused? Cracklin Charlie Jan 2017 #10
He makes my skin crawl. smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #9
First of all, he looks like Mr. Potato Head. blue neen Jan 2017 #11
Careful there with the name calling. Grammy23 Jan 2017 #12

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
6. Now we know where he tweets from at 3AM
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:14 PM
Jan 2017

His Florida Gold plated "throne" where all the shit comes out of him, from his bowels and his head and spews on twitter furiously as he insults and attacks...

They just shoved a desk in front of the same spot and said "look busy".

PS: the tiles with Latin on them is creepy if it translates to what the author suggested.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
12. Careful there with the name calling.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:57 PM
Jan 2017

You know how he gets his knickers in a twist any time someone says something about him he doesn't like. I must admit, however, that it looks like he has a giant, purple goose egg under the froth on top of his pumpkin head.

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