Donald Trump held courtroom with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday within the Oval Workplace. The assembly was largely overshadowed by the continued DOGE shenanigans carried out by President Musk this week, although it did function the most absurdly sycophantic “journalist” query since Lisa Simpson requested Mr. Burns to elucidate why he’s so fashionable.
We additionally had a possibility to take a look at the brand new search for the White Home. It’s not Jackie Kennedy exhibiting off new drapes or something, however it’s a begin.
Then Brian Baez observed one thing late final evening…
Truthfully, I refused to imagine it regardless of trusting Baez’s work. However I fired up our Getty subscription and loaded a high-resolution picture from a special angle and…
As they may say on a type of CSI reveals… “Zoom in. ENHANCE!”
Hey protection attorneys? How excited would you be to study that your shopper framed their mugshot and hung it up within the workplace?
That’s the New York Submit cowl of August 25, 2023 that includes Trump’s mugshot when he turned himself into Fulton County, Georgia authorities. The Oval Workplace is adorned with official portraits and sculptures of presidents at their most heroic — even when they have been, actually, scumbags — and Trump’s choice is to put his mugshot outdoors the workplace as a monument to managing to name election officers to ask them to conjure up non-existent votes and endure zero penalties.
Presidents usually don’t place portraits of themselves within the White Home as a result of that’s a symptom of narcissistic psychosis. Not that there haven’t been presidents with narcissistic psychosis, however they’ve traditionally had the naked minimal of reference to actuality to not have a good time that situation.
Although if a president have been to publish up a self-portrait, you’d assume he’d choose one thing vaguely flattering. One thing, I don’t know, presidential. Not a memento from when they obtained their buddies convicted. Why would he need to have a good time that every single day and — extra to the purpose — remind each dignitary of his felonious background? The almost definitely motive is that he sees it as an accomplishment. He received. He was hauled into courtroom on critical prison fees and nothing occurred. Even when he misplaced and obtained convicted of felonies in one other case he nonetheless received as a result of nothing occurred. He in all probability desires to remind himself and everybody else that he’s the actual Teflon Don.
Look, if he posted that silly “one thing nicked my totally unblemished ear and let’s simply faux it was a bullet” image it could be infantile however no less than it helps a messianic narrative. It’s truly type of telling that he views “beating the rap in Georgia” as extra of a monument to his strongman model than “surviving a failed assassination.” A mugshot that one in every of his personal attorneys admits makes the president seem like a Batman villain highlights the gaping chasm the place a fundamental sense of decorum ought to reside.
However for those who’re the sort of man who reads nationwide safety paperwork on a gold bathroom maybe we ask an excessive amount of.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Regulation and co-host of Considering Like A Lawyer. Be happy to e mail any ideas, questions, or feedback. Comply with him on Twitter or Bluesky for those who’re considering legislation, politics, and a wholesome dose of faculty sports activities information. Joe additionally serves as a Managing Director at RPN Govt Search.
