The mug shot seen 'round the world: Donald Trump's forever photo
The mug shot seen ’round the world: Donald Trump’s forever photo
Once seen, the indicted former president’s jail pic is impossible to forget. It cannot be deleted from the national memory.
Perspective by Karen Heller
Staff writer
Updated August 25, 2023 at 12:19 p.m. EDT|Published August 25, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/25/trump-monetize-mugshot-campaign-2024
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A picture may be worth a thousand words. Donald Trump’s Fulton County mug shot is worth all that and 13 counts in the Georgia indictment filed last week.
Trump, 77, is known for mugging for the camera. Now, he has a mug shot, the first former president to be the subject of one. (Also, the first to earn an inmate number: P01135809.) Dominating in the polls for the 2024 GOP nomination and the subject of four separate indictments, Trump is used to playing to the cameras and by his own rules. In an age of Photoshop, AI and airbrushing, of fakery and distrust, the mug shot is authentic and frequently without mercy.
How does Trump look, dressed in a navy suit, crisp white shirt and red tie? Perturbed. Here for the business. Like the camera is his opponent on the political battlefield and in the courtroom, a stand-in for Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis. Brows slanted into acute angles; his recorded “blonde or strawberry” hair, a meringue, almost airborne, at odds with the gravity of his countenance.
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Trump’s love affair with the camera is among his most enduring and primary relationships, essential to his profound ardor of the spotlight. In his homes, he likes to surround himself with his likeness. In images, he is prone to pouting and squinting so he resembles Winston Churchill, per a 2017 New York Times report. Aides told the outlet that he is also an exacting editor of published images. (Trump also put Churchill's words' "Never Surrender" on his mug shot when he published it).
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In other news, the original of Churchill's photo was stolen in Ottawa Christmas 2021/2022:
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'the Roaring Lion' photo?
A famous photograph of Winston Churchill snapped in 1941 has gone missing from an Ottawa hotel and replaced with a fake. The photo - known as "the Roaring Lion" - was taken by Yousuf Karsh shortly after Churchill gave a wartime speech to Canada's parliament.
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We are deeply saddened by this brazen act,” Geneviève Dumas, the Chateau Laurier’s general manager, said in a news release. “The hotel is incredibly proud to house this stunning Karsh collection, which was securely installed in 1998.”
The photo of Churchill, known as ‘The Roaring Lion,’ was taken after the then-British prime minister delivered a speech about the Second World War to Canada’s Parliament.
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