TIL JFK’s official presidential portrait looks like a zombie silently judging you from the afterlife, and it’s because it was only painted after his death. The artist’s inspiration was a photo of Ted Kennedy mourning his brother and Jackie chose that one immediately out of all the options, partially because they were both bored with the same generic stance every president has.
I’m not really getting the thoughtful, humble vibe she intended it to have, but I do really like it
I don’t get thoughtful or humble, but if you were to put his portrait next to that of any ten presidents that survived their term and said that one was assassinated in office I’d know instantly every time even if I didn’t know the answer. It looks mournful and representative of his being dead.
And I think it’s interesting to wonder what it would’ve been like had he lived. I suspect something closer to Obama’s, something full of life
Definitely one of my favorite portraits. I just wish it was painted with the tan suit to trigger conservatives even more than it already did.
Ha, conservatives are bad at history, which is probably why they are trying to ban it ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controversy#/media/File:President_Ronald_Reagan_shaking_hands_with_Arthur_Ashe.jpg
Hot take: more of these guys should be locked up.
Oh look, 43 war criminals, Jimmy Carter, and Abraham Lincoln
It’s not a war crime if it’s against the British Empire.
Please amend “Slave Owners” to your list, ty.
Ya during those wars those presidents were totally nice to the native Americans
Did Theodore Roosevelt do any war crimes? Like maybe with the rough riders? But Im drawing blanks.
The whole panana thing was p sketchy but since it wasn’t technically an American war it isn’t a war crime.
Also war crimes weren’t really “invented” until Nuremberg so in some sense no one committed war crimes until then. Somewhat more awkwardly the nazis tried at Nuremberg were being judged by laws that weren’t really codified until after they had committed them.
Imo war crimes isn’t really a good way of phrasing it bc unlike a nations legal code which is usually fairly black and white, war crimes are international and therefore a lot more subject to politics. I’m glad they were punished but I wish it hadn’t been execution in so many cases, and it has been called something like “acts unbecoming of a human”. Something nasty but definitely not related to the legal system.
If only Obama’s was made with him in the tan suit.
