That NYT Magazine Trump Balloon Cover

by Michael Shaw

Photo: Jamie Chung. Portrait illustration: Stanley Chow. Design Director: Gail Bichler. And, a little bit more for you folks who read the credits.

Some Quick Readings

• The run-away winner of the Summer ’15 County Fair Primary.
• More crippled conventional wisdom channeling the political establishment. That he’s just going to just float away.
• Helium: an inert, gaseous element present in the sun’s atmosphere and in natural gas, and also occurring as a radioactive decomposition product, used as a substitute for flammable gases in dirigible balloons. (Dictionary.com)
• The Wizard of Oz. (More terrifying, though, is that he left the curtain open on purpose.)
• Pumping him up still further. (The near one actually looks like a condom.)
• …What the media STILL doesn’t get in singling him out for ridicule: He rises or falls on one thing, and one thing only — that the whole process is hot air.
• I could also see it as a pillow. Yeah, his campaign as pillow talk. And, after all the lies and faithlessness from the others, people actually like it when he talks dirty.

Originally published at Reading The Pictures

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