The V&A’s “rapid response collecting” initiative, begun in 2014, has seen the pink knitted Pussyhat, worn at the 2017 women’s marches, acquired for the permanent collection, alongside the Jeremy Corbyn bootleg Nike T-shirt and a bright orange refugee flag with a thin black stripe, inspired by the lifejackets worn by many fleeing conflict. Nimbly pulled together since last summer, the exhibition comes at a time when museums are taking an increasing interest in the visual products of protest, frantically trying to keep up by acquiring the physical artefacts of current events. Any calculating state machine can masquerade as an army of unrelated individuals airing their personal views, and any political party can micro-target voters with fake news. Anyone with a smartphone is a designer, and anyone can now share their work instantly with a global audience.” And, as recent leaks have revealed, technology has also corrupted the medium. “Technology has really democratised the medium. “The last decade has seen a dramatic shift in how political visual material is produced and disseminated,” says the exhibition’s co-curator Margaret Cubbage. If he delivers on jobs and does really innovative stuff, if he rebuilds the infrastructure, he can be a transformational president.Impassioned pleas … the March for Our Lives gun control gathering, Washington DC, March 2018. Your government becomes infected with people who aren’t Trumpites but are party people.ĬTMIRROR: Can he shake up the Republican Party? I want to be X.” Pretty soon you’ve appointed someone to X who doesn’t share your views in that area. STONE: Yeah, well I mean you’re in the process of forming a government and you have all these supplicants, who want jobs and favors, coming to you and they say, “Oh, Mr. Stick to your agenda and you could be one of the most successful presidents this country ever had.ĬTMIRROR: Do you mean the establishment Republicans? ![]() STONE: Don’t succumb to the siren song of the establishment types, who will try to slow down or defeat your agenda. ![]() Then there are the Soros types and you have many, many nasty anti-Trump signs and anti-Trump posters…Soros politicized what was a really legitimate march for many of these women.ĬTMIRROR: What advice would you give Donald Trump? These people are not all radicals, and they don’t all hate Donald Trump. I think there were a lot of sincere women at the march. STONE: I didn’t see it so much as a protest as a march. Women have legitimate issues that they’re concerned about, and President Trump wants to take note of their concerns and their large numbers and move on. He’s very optimistic.ĬTMIRROR: How does the Women’s March play out in this crucial time for Trump? STONE: From time to time, I can reach him, but I don’t abuse it. Frankly I think he’s very involved behind the scenes with helping get a government in place.ĬTMIRROR: How often do you speak to the president? Manafort remains on excellent terms with everybody involved. Manafort remains on excellent terms with Jared and Ivanka. Manafort remains on excellent terms with the president. That story would not go away, and I think Donald was concerned and Manafort did what Corey should have done when he was accused of grabbing that girl and put the candidate first. In fact the party had a paid lobbyist in Washington… but the whole Russian meme took off. And Manafort to me is a victim of a mugging in a New York Times piece that accuses him in some ledger in a party clubhouse that showed that he got a payment of $12.5 million…and that Manafort may have lobbied on behalf of the party, which makes no sense. ![]() STONE: Democrats fastened on this Russian meme, part and parcel of that was a relentless attack on Manafort’s businesses in Eastern Europe.
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