The photo above was used to illustrate a letter in the opinion section of The Washington Post disputing the accuracy of reports that the federal takeover of DC resulted in fewer people eating out. No doubt it was used because it showed four (really at least five) of these Trump SS walking in front of a restaurant.
As horrified as we should be by this utterly obvious, unnecceasry, and downright absurd display of meant to intimidate performance art, I saw three positives in the photo. Can you guess what they are?
Here they are:
None of the Trump SS are wearing masks.
One of the members of the Trump Schutzstaffel1 has his name on his uniform.
This shows interagency cooperation.
We can only guess what the four people whose faces or heads are visible are thinking.
The three that we see all look serious or oblivious. It is hard to tell which. Are they really on the alert for criminal activity or people who look like they are illegal immigrants? I’d like to believe that at least one of them is thinking “what the fuck am I doing this for?” Either that or they may be worried about how they’ll react if someone throws a sandwich at them.
We don’t know why one is looking over his shoulder. Perhaps he passed someone eating a sandwich.
There’s a fifth Schutzstaffel who we can identify because of his body armor, but all we can tell is he has massive biceps and is wearing the requisite tight t-shirt.
Apparently being buff and showing off upper body muscles by wearing tight short sleeved shirts is a Trumpian requirement. Hegseth, RFK Jr., Margorie Taylor Greene, and AI images of Trump sets the standard for this.
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Unfortunately people, like the two in this photo, will continue to be intimidated by the Trump SS for no other reason than they have black or brown skin.
Look at their faces:
Waiting under a bus shelter used to protect you from the elements like rain and snow. This one doesn't protect you from ICE and their partners. The police still have the audacity to wear the uniform of DC police (who are supposed to protect and serve everyone)
Meanwhile, Trump's next target city is supposedly going to be Chicago!
Read: ‘Your political circus isn’t welcome here’: Trump eyes federal crackdowns in more cities.
US President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago is the next city in his crosshairs for the kind of federal invasion and occupation currently underway in Washington, DC—a threat that sparked defiant pushback from officials in the Windy City and beyond.
"After we do this, we'll go to another location, and we'll make it safe also," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, referring to his federalization of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department and deployment of National Guard troops from the district and five Republican-controlled states.
"We're going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago's a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent and we'll straighten that one out probably next," the president said, referring to progressive Brandon Johnson. "That will be our next one after this. And it won't even be tough."
Hopefully it won’t happen, but it’s possible that visitors to Millennium Park will end up getting interesting, and disquieting, photos of Trump’s SS lingering around the famous Cloud Gate sculpture, otherwise knows as “the bean.”
The Britannica explains why Chicago is called The Second City.
Chicago is called the “Second City” due to a combination of historical and cultural factors, primarily stemming from its rivalry with New York City and the name of a book by A.J. Liebling, who coined the term in the 1950s.
Now it looks like it is poised to become the second city Trump unleashes his SS on.
While it may sound like the name of a German strudel Schutzstaffel was the name of the Nazi SS.
