Posted on 08/25/2023 6:44:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it.
When the camera shutter blinked inside an Atlanta jail on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former president of the United States, for the first time in history, under arrest and captured in the sort of frame more commonly associated with drug dealers or drunken drivers. The trappings of power gone, for that split second.
Left behind: an enduring image that will appear in history books long after Donald Trump is gone.
“It will be forever part of the iconography of being alive in this time,” said Marty Kaplan, a professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications.
In the photo, Trump confronts the camera in front of a bland gray backdrop, his eyes meeting the lens in an intense glare. He’s wearing a blue suit, white shirt and red tie, his shoulders squared, his head tilted slightly toward the camera. The sheriff’s logo has been digitally added above his right shoulder.
Some of the 18 others charged with him in Georgia smiled in their booking photos like they were posing for a yearbook. Not Trump. His defiance is palpable, as if he’s staring down a nemesis through the lens.
“It is not a comfortable feeling — especially when you’ve done nothing wrong,” he later told Fox News Digital about the moment.
Never mind that Trump, like all Americans, is innocent until proven guilty in court; the mug shot, and all it connotes, packs an extra emotional and cultural punch.
A mug shot is a visceral representation of the criminal justice system, a symbol of lost freedom.
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BTTT
Nah, surely he has already given birth to yet more turds.
Cooper seems to be too naive to know that the mugshot is now a symbol that proves the left are tyranical thugs! .title does Cooper know that that one photo, along with Trump’s asinine arrest will rally supporters like nothing else could!
Cooper can smirk all he likes, but his ignorance comes shining through.
What a smug looking b@st@rd!
Sarah Palin wasn’t afraid to say it out loud, and she did yesterday on Newsmax. She said what do they want, a civil war? And yes... that is exactly what they are pushing for.
Be careful what you wish for, traitors. You just might get it. Good & hard & plenty.
“The DJT mug shot, the icing on the cake that we are a full third world banana republic, while the so called opposition Republican Party stands mute.”
Complicity tends to do that. Let’s face it. The GOP stopped representing We, the People a long time ago.
At least they should provide a link in their story so I can buy some Trump merch.
MLK then, like Trump will now, went from being a hero to a rock star.
I knew that’s what it would look like - the Pissed-Off Trump meme face. Perfect.
Makes ya wanna slap the taste outta his mouth don’t it?
Saw Sarah last night on Newsmax. After she said what she said about Civil War.. I turned to the wife and said: now Sarah will be arrested for “inciting violence” and “insurrection”.
Damn glad Sarah said what needs to be said!!!
https://twitter.com/repmtg/status/1694849434062877177?s=46 ... our U.S. Rep Marjorie Taylor Green - posing for a faux mugshot in solidarity with DT. Her/our district is the top corner of GA bordering TN/AL. Very, very beautiful green rolling hills. Y’all come.
Love the poster. Can I use it? Wanna make a shirt.
Love it...
The glare from Trump in his mugshot is a clear signal of what is coming. I can’t wait.
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall NEVER SURRENDER!”
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