Portrait of Donald Trump, As Pope Of The World's Catholics
Photo Of One of Trump's Tantrums
Francis Bacon's Study After Velazquez's Portrait Of Pope Innocent X
Catholics around the world have been mourning the death of Pope Francis, and
celebrating the installation of Pope Leo XIV. It seems difficult to believe that anyone
who holds the highest political office of any powerful nation at this time, would
want to mock the head of this religion's membership of approximately one and a
half billion people, but one president was just stupid enough to do it.
Donald Trump was in attendance at the funeral services for Pope Francis, and after
he returned to this country, an AI portrait of Donald Trump, dressed as the Pope, was
released to the world. Why would he chose to thumb his nose at the religious beliefs
of so many people? This is just further proof that Trump's gargantuan ego far outweighs
his very minuscule intelligence quotient. When he was asked about the portrait, he
pretended to know nothing about it, but I have not heard him issue any kind of statement
denouncing this image as the disgusting mockery of a religious faith that it is. He sees
this image as no different than his other portraits, dressed as comic book heroes, which
he prints and sells on his worthless trading cards.
In the early 1950's, a British artist by the name of Francis Bacon, who became known
for painting twisted and distorted images of human figures and faces, painted a series of
paintings based on Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X. The paintings became
known as his "Screaming Popes" series. Bacon claimed that the paintings were simply
his reaction to the colors in the Velazquez work; art critics praised the work for capturing
"raw emotion" in paint. If Bacon were still alive today, he would have a ready made
model for a raw emotion screamer in Donald Trump. The photo of Trump caught
having one of his tantrum screams, is an almost perfect match for that of the Screaming
Pope painting, and it is a much more honest image of Trump, than that of a saintly and
revered leader of a religious faith.
I don't know how the Catholics are feeling now, about such a repulsive image as
that of "Pope Trump". but I should think that it is stirring up plenty of "raw emotion"
for many of them.
Eugene P. McNerney
