A somewhat tongue in cheek analysis of the MAGA ad campaign by Hal Brown, MSW
Last night I noticed a Trump MAGA ad in the lower left on the main page of Salon.
It depicts what we know is Trump’s grandiose and belligerent narcissism. This is supposed to be a nighttime street fight as suggested by the cars and people in the background. Trump is not drawn as the sedentary fatso who can’t even walk when he plays golf. He looks like he's at the peak of fitness. In actuality Biden looks much more like he does in real life than Trump.
Remember we once had a basketball playing president and a president and vice president who actually could jog:
In the drawing Trump, to the uninitiated, looks like he may be winning but in fact Biden’s defensive stance shows not fear but rather positioning himself to land the killing blows when Trump falls flat on his ass. (Martial arts experts weigh in please, I never got beyond a white belt in undergraduate judo club.
I clicked on it so you don’ t have to. It is a link to a Trump donation page. I had no idea it would lead to post this diary. The link takes you to this donation page.
The Salon ad alternates with one showing the 6’ 3” Trump without a mask towering over the 6’ tall Biden who is wearing a mask with SLEEPY JOE written on it.
I think the little burgundy colored flag to the right is supposed to be the flag of China. I think many people will mistake it for the old hammer and sickle Soviet Union flag which makes no sense since there have been no allegations made against Joe or Hunter Biden about having dirty dealings in Russia.
I can tell you what flag it’s not. It isn’t the Ukrainian flag which is simply a blue bar over a yellow bar which most people wouldn’t recognize. That would have made more sense in an attack ad except nobody would have known what it was.
Salon of course is a liberal website and I rather doubt they will get any donations from the ad. In fact I doubt very many people will click on it even out of curiosity like I did. It says more about Trump's grandiose and belligerent self-image than mere words can describe. I have to say that I thought it would actually link to a video game.
Back to the martial arts illustration:
The drawing shows Trump wearing a black belt and Biden a red belt. If the illustrator did their homework they would have realized that in some forms of the martial arts the red belt outranks the highest degree black belt. For example the Red Belt In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu it is the highest ranking belt. In fact the average person knows that a black belt indicates expertise but has no idea what a red belt means. Biden’s wearing it will be meaningless.
A clever illustrator would have put Biden in a yellow belt which comes after the novice white belt. Yellow of course is associated with cowardice.
Reading more into this I’d suggest that having Trump’s score in green really indicates how much he envies Biden and like in Trump’s favorite pastime a high score means you are losing.
This may not be the craziest and most ridiuclous delusional depiction Trump has tried to foist off on the American public, but it ranks up there with his Rocky Balboa and his Superman photoshops. See Months after 'Rocky' image, Trump posts video of himself as Superman from February.
I should have put my laptop into incognito mode before I clicked on this. My bad. Now I have to remove the cookies doing this put on my computer.
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