Every now and then, someone gets a photo that's symbolic beyond its immediate circumstances. The shot of Trump standing immobilized as his staff tended to a fainting person was a recent example.
Now we have this one. Here's Benedict Donald, looking like hell. (When will he learn to blend his makeup?) Here's the American flag touching the ground. Kind of says it all for the state of the nation these days.
Some Trump fan on social media furiously assured everyone that the White House grounds crew was taking the flag down as a safety precaution due to high winds. That's possible, but it's not the point.
For the photographer to have captured this very specific moment, with the sagging flag and the shambling Trump, was not just a journalistic coup. It's more evidence that Donald's luck — his ability to survive almost anything that's thrown at him — may have just run out. (Reminder: Epstein vote in the House today.) We cats PURR.
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