In the wake of Donald Trump's historic election victory, it's worth a quick look back at one particularly ironic example of the media's blatant contempt for the reality TV billionaire-turned-President.
New York magazine recently enlisted artist Barbara Kruger to create a harsh, ugly extreme closeup of Trump for the cover of its October 31-November 13 election issue, branding Trump a “LOSER.”
According to the magazine's editor-in-chief Adam Moss in his explanation on the mag's website, the cover can be interpreted in different ways:
“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 … news [of FBI Director James Comey’s letter] broke just as were shipping it. But in the end we felt that the power of Kruger’s image transcended any one meaning you could read into it.”
Moss added: “The issue analyzes many aspects of Trump’s 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.”
If by "we" he means the media elites, then we agree - they are the losers of this election.
