The “Shot” heard around the world! Mug shot that is.

The former President, Donald J. Trump, sure doesn’t look worried.

He doesn’t look intimidated either.

I would say he looks pi$$ed off, and that these people should be careful what they wish for, because payback’s a b*tch.

Jonathan J. Cooper, for The Associated Press, reports, “One image, one face, one American moment: The Donald Trump mug shot.”

“A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it.”

“When the camera shutter blinked inside an Atlanta jail on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life.”

A huge inflection point, in my estimation.  

“Captured for posterity, there was a former president of the United States, for the first time in history, under arrest and captured in the sort of frame more commonly associated with drug dealers or drunken drivers. The trappings of power gone, for that split second.”

“Left behind: an enduring image that will appear in history books long after Donald Trump is gone.”

You can say that again.

‘“It will be forever part of the iconography of being alive in this time,’ said Marty Kaplan, a professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications.”

Ooookay, agreed…, but did we really need a quote from some unknown professor from some unknown school to state the obvious here?  Just sayin’.   

“In a historic moment for American history, former President Donald Trump becomes the first president to have a booking photo released, and is also the first former president to be criminally charged.”

“In the photo, Trump confronts the camera in front of a bland gray backdrop, his eyes meeting the lens in an intense glare. He’s wearing a blue suit, white shirt and red tie, his shoulders squared, his head tilted slightly toward the camera. The sheriff’s logo has been digitally added above his right shoulder.”

“Some of the 18 others charged with him in Georgia smiled in their booking photos like they were posing for a yearbook. Not Trump. His defiance is palpable, as if he’s staring down a nemesis through the lens.”

Like I said, I would say he looks pi$$ed off, and that these people should be careful what they wish for, because payback’s a b*tch.

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