Poor Donald. The faithful are dropping like flies these days. Why, there’s a virtual pandemic of desertion going on in the once swollen pro-Trump ranks. And just wait until Rudy Giuliani starts talking, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. It will be a veritable stampede. The Washingtonian:
New York-based artist Julian Raven became something of a right-wing celeb for his sprawling painting of Donald Trump—complete with American flag-piercing bald eagle and border wall map—and his subsequent legal battle with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to get it displayed. After the January 6 storming of the Capitol Building, however, the two-time Trump voter spoke out against his former hero, calling on him to resign. Now, the painter says the museum should not display a photo portrait of Trump destined for its presidential gallery when it reopens in the coming months.
“I believe the right thing to do would be to hang a black cloth over the photo and that no honor be given to him until he repents before God and man,” says Raven, who was the subject of a 2019 Washingtonian feature story.
Raven says he has nothing against the artwork itself; In fact, he thinks it’s a “beautiful” photo. “It reflects the best time when he was in office,” he says. But, Raven says, Trump shouldn’t be honored with a portrait until the former president “humbles himself” and takes responsibility for his actions surrounding election fraud claims and the insurrection.
“The worst part for me was all the people then and now being arrested and their lives being ruined for being duped into this pseudo-revolution. And he gets into a plane and flies off to his mansion on the beach,” Raven says. He thinks Trump should give them financial assistance during their incarceration.
Fat chance of any of it happening. Not the humility, not the repentance, and not Trump helping out any of his misguiding followers, financially. That last one is an absolute. It’s always interesting, though, to hear from a woke former Trumper. Better to wake TF up at some point, then to never wake up at all.
“And so down the road that leads to Hell,/We strode a merry band,/Sargon, Balthazar, Jezebel,/Cain with his bloody hand.”–Robert E Howard, “The Dust Dance”
Actually the Trompador reminds me more of Yeats ‘Second Coming’
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born”
I noticed in your ‘About Us’ piece below, it says you are dedicated to finding the lies and corruption in Washington, DC. I don’t know how long you have been around, but obviously your magazine has missed the mark, by a very large, large, large, large margin. The corruption in DC has been there for the Clinton, Obummer, and both Bushes, and now the biden admin. Every MSM, INCLUDING YOURS ,WOULDN’T KNOW JOURNALISM IF IT STEPPED IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSE. I have been around for 71 years and when the same ole crimes get talked about over and over, written about, over and over, videos now showing all the words coming out of the crooks own mouths, and documents with proof, IGNORED, IGNORED, BY LAW ENFORCEMENT BUDDIES, WASHED OUT OF THE HEADLINES AND BURIED, THE FOOLS LIKE YOU AND THE MSM ARE NOT WORTH A PLUG NICKLE. GET A BACKBONE AND DO THE JOB WITH SOME HONESTY AND DIGNITY AGAINST THE WORSE ADMINS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE ON A PATH TO DESTROYING THE SAME COUNTRY WE ALL LIVE IN. IT’S NOT JUST ELITES RUNNING THE BROKE PEOPLES GOVERNMENT WHO MATTER !!! WE HAVE CHILDREN THAT NEED BETTER FOR A FUTURE. FILL GITMO WITH THEIR CRIMINAL BUTTS. DO A BETTER JOB. LEARN JOURNALISM, NOT JUST FILL IN THE LINES WITH GARBAGE.
Go back to parler, moron. Your dreck belongs there, not here. And stop drinking the damned koolaid and get a brain.
You give yourself away when using kiddy nicknames for Obama.
BTW, the worst corruption in the last 30 years has been under the R presidents, particularly the most recent one.
Too bad these guys are all hit and run wonders. they never come back and see the responses. They are too afraid that someone might pierce their partisan propaganda armor.
You have a partial point. You are correct that all journalists need to be scrupulously honest brokers of information. However, your 71 years of life experience apparently did not help you reject right-wing propaganda, and the well-established fact that the most corrupt administration in the modern era has been the Trump administration. Therefore, no one is going to take your all-caps shouting seriously. Meanwhile, Biden has rolled out an ambitious agenda for providing your children with a better future.
His painting “reflects his best time in office.” Did trump have a best time in office? If he did I missed it.
It was the period while he was sick with CoViD. And we all missed it, becaus his staff could keep a secret (which he couldn’t have, but was in no condition to blab.)
When you lose a guy like this Raven person, you have really lost it
Wildhare is right – He/she is a wild hare (hair) / albeit a non thinking one. Not clear thinking at least. I am the same age as you and it seems to me that there are a lot of things you can step in in front of your nose besides journalism – I don’t scream in caps I try really hard not to react or over react to opinion pieces. You wrote “ the words coming out of the crooks own mouths, and documents with proof, IGNORED, IGNORED, BY LAW ENFORCEMENT BUDDIES, WASHED OUT OF THE HEADLINES AND BURIED”.
I disagree. Case in point Rudy Giuliani Republican who’s investigation was started under guess who ??? Uhhh the fellow who’s lies & supporting sourced documents are coming to the forefront now? The one who was impeached twice? And there are others. Nixon and watergate and others. Are you just upset because you are not (truly)bipartisan and believe and play the culture war games? Think about it please, do some inner reflection – honestly. Write down what you Don’t bring to your political party and beliefs write down what you do bring then compare your lists. Thanks