Trump’s Instagram mug shot as a gesture of honor for his pledge to not surrender and a resolution to the heall conflict problem
Trump is a counter-programmer, a showman with a taste for political change so he understands that the images endure. Sometimes the image is used as a message. In fact, he understands it so innately that he used his mug shot as an opportunity to raise funds by posting it on X (formerly Twitter) the same night. He vowed not to surrender after he surrendered. According to Politico, the photo has raised more than $7 million since last week. This is all part of the Trump allure. The amphitheater of social media is where he excels, as meme and messiah.
Typically, mug shots are associated with shame and humiliation. His mug shot is the first ever of an American president, and so for Trump and a pocket of his fan base, it was a gesture of honor.
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“There’s nothing like the scale of what’s going on — a politician of Trump’s stature who’s using the scandal to such political benefit,” said William Howell, a political science professor at the University of Chicago.
Trump, who faces four separate indictments, took his first mug shot on Thursday after surrendering in Atlanta. He faces 13 felony counts in Georgia related to efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election result.
For most people, mug shots are taken during one of the worst days of their lives. Unless someone pays to get the images taken down, they can now last forever on the internet.
Arrest images are also used disproportionately by race. In a 2021 study, Global Strategy Group found media coverage in the U.S. used mug shots in 45% of cases involving Black defendants while only 8% of cases involving white defendants.
“If you have no power, you’re criminalized.” They don’t have much say about it. Mary Angela Bock, journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said that people with a lot of power have the ability to change that picture.
According to Bock, elected officials have the power and resources to largely be immune to the life-altering effect of mug shots. Take former Texas Gov. In 2014, Perry was booked and photographed in jail after accusations that he abused his power as governor. But the incident turned into a political rally and later, his super PAC sold T-shirts with his mug shot for $25.
“Politicians know it’s more about the moment than the picture.” According to Bock, they can change the meaning of that moment to match their needs, even if it’s just a mug shot.
Trump has long portrayed himself as an anti-hero — an outsider willing to call out the failures and corruption in Washington. To him and some of his supporters, the indictments and mug shot underscore their belief that he has been treated unfairly, according to Howell.
The narrative that he’s spinning now is that the justice system has been manipulated against him by his opponent and the government has been hijacked by people who don’t believe in the rule of law,” he said.
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That’s why he thinks Trump’s mug shot will help him during his campaign. The fake Trump mug shot is selling well for the campaign.
On Thursday, Trump posted on X, which has been in the public eye recently, for the first time in nearly two years, along with the words “NEVER SURRENDER.”
He followed suit and his supporters then posted their own fake mug shots on the social media site. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a member of the Georgia legislature.
“This is more than that they’re going to support him through fires. He believes that the fires will strengthen the bonds between them.
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Donald Trump was on my TV screen for the first time. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was Will Smith’s beloved coming-of-age comedy about class separation that ran on NBC for six seasons. In my formative years, this was how I made sense of Trump, despite the fact he appeared in it and played a relatively tame version of himself. As a real estate deal maker. As a reality TV star. And eventually 45th president of the United States. Then and now, Trump best communicates through the medium of images.
The latest transmission from his visual onslaught began making rounds on the internet last Thursday, just past the 8pm Eastern primetime hour, when Georgia’s Fulton County Jail released his mug shot to the public. It has since been described as one of the most historic images of our time. And so do we. Our visual vocabulary does not have a parallel for it. It’s a Trump original, in every way.