{"id":137326,"date":"2018-10-15T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/trumps-taste-in-white-house-art-is-i-suppose-not-surprising.html"},"modified":"2018-10-15T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:13:33","slug":"trumps-taste-in-white-house-art-is-i-suppose-not-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/trumps-taste-in-white-house-art-is-i-suppose-not-surprising.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#039;s taste in White House art is, I suppose, not surprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump, leader and cohort of Republicans, sitting as the slender, breaking-the-fourth-wall center of attention of Republican presidents of the past. Even Nixon. Even Teddy (whose progressive legacy he&#39;s unwinding). Even the Bushes (who&#39;ve made it clear they&#39;re not wowed with Donald). Even Lincoln. Even a mysterious woman-president-to-be (?) striding toward the boys club table.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#39;s a surreal painting to begin with. That Trump actually hung a copy of it up in the White House is &#8230; remarkable. Yet so predictable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/time.com\/5424453\/donald-trump-painting-andy-thomas\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/wWpE6ki0XDrKZP9t7m3tKZ21B2Dx6bF3mV88HCKOCVw25sGvcreEWNxvGglvbW-axQ5CGiN87RZfNtZISFNbgISQfcwxfpV6cQlIPOZmz5NfjBnxsojKdlrhTz960cpYMsejVRIPnviQYjSw1A=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/time.com\/5424453\/donald-trump-painting-andy-thomas\/'>Meet the Painter Whose Trump Portrait Hangs in White House<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHe&#8217;s drinking a Diet Coke with Abraham Lincoln\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/4gq15iFPfdR'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump, leader and cohort of Republicans, sitting as the slender, breaking-the-fourth-wall center of attention of Republican presidents of the past. Even Nixon. Even Teddy (whose progressive legacy he&#39;s unwinding). Even the Bushes (who&#39;ve made it clear they&#39;re not wowed with Donald). Even Lincoln. Even a mysterious woman-president-to-be (?) striding toward the boys club table. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/trumps-taste-in-white-house-art-is-i-suppose-not-surprising.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump&#039;s taste in White House art is, I suppose, not surprising&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134026,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/the-white-house-admits-trump-lied-says-lie-is-a-harsh-term.html","url_meta":{"origin":137326,"position":0},"title":"The White House admits Trump lied, says &quot;lie&quot; is a harsh term","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Aug-17 5:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, Donald Trump didn't get a personal phone call from the head of the Boy Scouts thanking him for a powerful speech he'd made at the Jamboree, as he claimed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. 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