A giant, inflatable Trump Rat will tower over Washington
Source: WP
AT FIRST glance, you might not notice. There’s the tangerine-tinted skin. The buttercream half-bouffante. The long red tie. Everything looks like standard-issue Trump caricature — till you get to the teeth. They jut out like a rodent’s, as if for chewing up opponents or gnawing on one’s own political tail.
This, standing 15 feet tall and puffed out by hot air, is Trump Rat. And he is set to make his Washington debut come lunchtime Tuesday on the green of Dupont Circle, for a two-day engagement a short hop north of the White House.
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That creator, John Post Lee, is a New York gallery owner who was moved to help manufacture Trump Rat shortly after the president’s victory last November. “Probably,” Lee says of the timing, “when my Ambien prescription ran out.”
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Lee is a Philadelphia native who’s been a New Yorker for 35 years — long enough to be especially familiar with Trump as a public figure. “For those of us who lived through New York in the ’80s,” he says, “Trump was no more than a sleazy, mean-spirited real estate developer that we were all wise [to] . … He represented a vulgar, tawdry opulence, stylewise — the-Gilded Age dictator-in-exile eclectic modernism.”
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/08/29/a-giant-inflatable-trump-rat-will-tower-over-washington/
Lee now views Trump, after a "debacle" of an election, as a "toxic existential" threat.
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