A picture is worth a thousand words, the old saying goes. Actually that phrase seems to be an invention of the advertising industry early in the 20th century and therefore not that old at at all. It is is sometimes falsely said to be an ancient Chinese proverb, but that is just to make it sound more venerable and respectable, in the way that if you put together a course or scam on real estate and called it Trump University it might persuade some people that it is an actual university.
If there was an ancient Chinese proverb to cover the predicament of Mitt Romney right now – paraded for the media having dinner with Trump to aid his bid to become Secretary of State in the new administration – it would probably go like this:
“Man who call future President a flake and a fraud is destined to find himself eating frog leg soup and smiling awkwardly at camera.”
They dined at a three star Michelin place on steak and soup with frogs legs. Trump is such an anti-elitist…
The image above is surely, in a remarkable year of images, the best, or the most bizarre and unsettling of the lot. The lighting makes Trump look positively demonic. Nice guy Romney looks terrified, as though he has wandered onto the set of Goodfellas and is about to be taken out the back and suspended upside down on a meat hook. It’s like the moment in Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose when Allen’s character gets talking to the Italian love interest’s uncle and he explains he’s in the cement business.
There are no words…
