Last month, this painting appeared on the cover of Der Spiegel (here’s the international edition, in English), the most-read news magazine not just in Germany, but Europe as well. Its title is Der Feuerteufel (the firestarter), and its subtitle is Ein Präsident setzt sein Land in Brand (“a president sets fire to his country”).
To find out more about this magazine cover, see Ad Age’s article, Germany’s Leading Newsweekly Decries Trump’s Incendiary Approach.
May 20, 2020: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, toeing the Trump Administration’s line of pretending everything is fine, castigates the media for overhyping the coronavirus threat.
An excerpt from his rant:
You got a lot of people in your profession who waxed for weeks and weeks about how Florida was gonna be just like New York.
“Wait two weeks! Florida’s gonna be next! Just like Italy. Wait two weeks.” Well, hell, we’re eight weeks away from that, and it hasn’t happened.
So we’ve succeeded, and I think that people just don’t want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative, it challenges their assumption, so they gotta try to find a bogeyman. Maybe it’s that there are black helicopters circling the Department of Health. If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
Two months after the rant:
Nice going, Governor DeVirus.
Watch this video before Disney issues the takedown notice! It’s the ad for Walt Disney World re-opening, but with the audio track replaced by Blue Oyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper.
The people who made the video also added some cuts from the film based on Stephen King’s The Stand, but they’re quite unnecessary. The empty Disney World scenes with masked staff are creepy enough, as the stills below will show:
Reporter Andrew Kimmel interviewed a Trump supporter, asking an important question: What’s the line that he would have to cross in order to lose her support? Her answer: “Commit adultery on his beautiful, classy wife.”
Is there anything Trump can do to make you lose support of him?
“Commit adultery on his beautiful, classy wife.”
What about Stormy Daniels?
“That was years ago before he ever became president. Nobody is accountable for what he done when he was a lot younger.”#TrumpRallyTulsa pic.twitter.com/67OdKJXi0O
— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) June 20, 2020
Fact check: That fling with Stormy Daniels happened in 2006. Trump was a lot younger then — a mere lad at the age of (checks notes) 60.
There’s more of this interview on Twitter, and it’s a fascinating look into Trumpthink.
In case you’re not familiar with the Dead or Alive franchise, here’s a look at one of the more recent games:
[ Thanks to Ramon Grajo for the find! ]
