Lincoln Portrait in West Wing Under Attack - Abuse of Art / National Treasures Trump Style

Wikipedia Commons, Old Frame
Lincoln by artist George Henry Story

I hope Pence and his White House team take better care of Coronavirus management in the U.S. than they mistreat the Lincoln Portrait, the great emancipator, by artist George Henry Story, formerly in the Oval Office, with Bush and Obama admin and replaced by one of Jackson, the de-emancipator of native peoples, with Trump. 

Looks like they replaced the original frame, a no no in the art world, and replaced it in a cheap gilt imitation frame from Michaels's. The canvas looks like the poor fit of the painting in the frame is causing stress on the painting. Too much or too little humidity in that unidentified room in the West Wing.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/02/photo-shows-pence-team-trying-to-pray-away-coronavirus/#disqus_thread


According to EurAsia Review, the official White House photo by D. Myles Cullen depicts Vice President Mike Pence meeting with the President’s Coronavirus Task Force earlier this week in the West Wing of the White House.


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Upcoming Diplomatic Visit in Fall - Putin Bringing New Fabric 4 Curtains in Oval Office (to feel more at home)

I look forward to my upcoming trip to America this Fall in time for their meager elections as a gesture of contempt for all democracy. I will sit down and tell President Roosevelt how the German Peace is the only acceptable permanent peace in Europe.

And I look forward as a vegetarian who eats no animal meat for Eleanor Roosevelt to share with me for my cook, from what I hear is a recipe for Killer Molasses Cookies.

Yum. Yum.



Я с нетерпением жду предстоящей поездки в Америку этой осенью во время их скудных выборов как жест неуважения к любой демократии. Я сяду и скажу президенту Рузвельту, что Германский мир является единственным приемлемым постоянным миром в Европе.

И я с нетерпением жду, как вегетарианец, который не ест никакого мяса животных для Элеоноры Рузвельт, чтобы поделиться со мной для моего повара, из того, что я слышу, является рецептом для куки-убийц Killer Melasses.

Yum. Yum.

George Henry Story – American Artist – 1835-1922

Young Woman Reading – circa 1880

George Henry Story also painted the Lincoln Portrait presently in the Oval Office, White House, Washington D.C..

NYT OBIT – George Henry Story, American Artist, 1835-1922

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Birther and Sedevacantist Movements - Similarities

Is the Oval Office truly empty???

Doing my hobby of researching the millions of pages of faith, Christian and otherwise, a thought occurred to me (I do have them on occasion) (and they are not all eccentric).


It struck me that the whole birther movement, in the denial of legitimacy of the 44th POTUS (a god of sorts with a small g) is not unlike the Sedevacantist (empty chair) movement in the RC church.


That aside from the Clinton campaign starting this whole birth certificate thing in 2008, the ferocity of this continued meme/myth/urban legend thing has overtones of religion all over it as much as it has coded racism.


Just looking at the flash mobs at the White House, Times Square and the Phillies/Mets game on Sunday night reminds me that the super patriotism thing is a tribal, almost secular religion thing. Every recognizable country has at the base of its identity this “we are great” “we are the only true ones” “we are first” tone of things.


As such I wish I had the time and money to follow through on this theme. I see a parallel between the Birther movement and the “Sedevacantists” in the RC church who believe that the Chair of Peter has been empty (Sede Vacante) since the death of Hitler’s pope Pius XII – the Great Appeaser.


John XXIII and his Vatican council thing ticked off a lot of traditionalists and their worship of the Latin mass thingy going in favor of the vernacular service. Modernism and democracy are both sins/depravities in the eyes of the RC dogma.


I have to wonder if the birther movement is a pure redneck populist movement. I have to wonder if big bucks behind the scenes from the likes of Mel Gibson and his more catholic than the pope Dad, along with Opus Dei justice Scalia and Sen. Santorum etc., have not been bankrolling this insane belief that the Oval Office is empty?


And all this birther religious like fervor or insanity is not being funded by church tax free money that should be otherwise taxed and put to better use?