About an hour after tweeting a missile threat to Russian forces in Syria, the so-called president tweeted a weak request to stop the arms race with Russia.
That was just a couple of days after the FBI raided the office of one of Trump’s lawyers, the one who paid hush money to a porn star. You know, the porn star Trump cheated on his pregnant wife with but yet “evangelicals” look past that.
It’s hard to do justice to the nuttiness, incompetence and horror of the Trump maladministration in just a couple of paragraphs. There’s treason, collusion, emoluments, profiteering, trade wars.
And I’m still leaving a lot of stuff out. Go back to some random point in the past 15 months or so and you’ll find some Trump crime I haven’t even alluded to. The point is that this is not normal.
That’s the title of an art exhibit opening tonight at Riopelle. The address is 1492 Gratiot, in Detroit. It’s on the triangular corner where Gratiot Avenue and Riopelle Street intersect, and another street I can’t remember at the moment.
It’s not the first art exhibit about Trump since the unqualified idiot won Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, putting him over the threshold of 270 votes in the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote.
It’s not even the first in the metro Detroit area. But this one might be the first one that comes at it from the right angle: the ongoing horror show of the Trump maladministration must not be normalized.
The announcement in this week’s Art Detroit Now newsletter shows a Jason Voorhees mask with a Trump wig in front of a fire. A dumpster fire? Perhaps.
This Is Not Normal is an art show in the time of Trumpism hosted at the Riopelle Artist Collective. Riopelle's artists and guest artists Wayne Curtis and Shanna Merola will exhibit new works exploring their political feelings over the last year and beyond, with musical performances by Tammy Lakkis and Kes Yehna.
The opening reception is tonight, from 7:00 p.m. to midnight. I don’t know about gallery hours.
And to those people who were dead set against voting for Hillary Clinton: what was so bad about her anyway? Do you even remember what the C in those damn e-mails stood for? Classified? Confidential? Craptastic? Crucifying?
Yeah, President Hillary Clinton would be under constant investigation. But there would be no need for any Democrat to say to her what Trey Gowdy has said to Trump: if you’re innocent, act innocent.
Here’s an omission from this week’s Art Detroit Now newsletter: Guns: In the Hands of Artists opens at the Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery tomorrow, the reception goes from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The address is 33 E. Adams, in Detroit.
I try to maintain an up-to-date listing of upcoming art openings in Detroit on ArtistsofMichigan.org. The thing about this, though, is that you can see what is listed not just for this week but also next week and maybe even months down the line.
That way, if you are an artist or a gallery director and you see your opening that’s coming up in a few weeks listed on that page, you don’t have to worry that on the Thursday the week of your opening might not be listed, as is often the case with Art Detroit Now.
Of course the problem with that page is that it doesn’t have the reach of Art Detroit Now. And so, as is the case with tonight's anti-Trump exhibit, I wasn’t able to get ahead of Art Detroit Now.