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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLOSER
For the cover of New Yorks Election Issue, we turned to the artist Barbara Kruger, who had created such a memorable cover for the magazine the week of Eliot Spitzers resignation. She came back with this image. Editor-in-chief Adam Moss says that he and the editors, were drawn to it, in part, for the three ways in which it could be interpreted: as Trump speaking (single word epithets being his specialty); as a description of Trump; and as a call on the election result. On this latter point, who knows and we confess to being a little rattled when the Comey letter news broke just as were shipping it. But in the end we felt that the power of Krugers image transcended any one meaning you could read into it. The issue analyzes many aspects of Trumps extraordinary candidacy, and an important point is spelled out in the headline we appended to the bottom corner: Trump has already changed America, not much for the better. Which adds a fourth meaning: in that sense we are all losers too.
http://nymag.com/press/2016/10/cover-donald-trump-by-barbara-kruger-for-the-election-issue.html
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LOSER (Original Post)
demmiblue
Nov 2016
OP
raging moderate
(4,281 posts)1. Idea: this image, with the US reflected in the eyes.
I am not computer-savvy. Maybe somebody else could do this, or even something better.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)2. Great cover
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)3. Donald the Hutt
A deplorable waste of a life form.
randome
(34,845 posts)4. Trump probably wears a ton of makeup every day. This closeup shows his true appearance.
Nothing wrong with being older but his pathetic attempts to paint himself as superhuman deserve mockery.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]