Trump’s 'brittle' attempt at art propaganda is crumbling: opinion (opens in new tab)

“... [C]compared with those of his predecessors, Donald Trump’s cultural campaign is perhaps the most overt and visually distinct,” wrote The Atlantic's assistant editor Isabel Ruehl on Thursday after comparing Trump to the Soviet Communist Party and previous presidents like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon. “Memes aside—his administration’s social media has its own aesthetic—Trump’s architectural and design taste maximizes size, gilt, and jingoism, asserting the superiori...