The Divide

BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL! This is the new theme, for two years until the Wall is finished (under construction now), of the Republican Party. Use it and pray!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2019

Trumps parrots his theme as @realDonaldTrump. But he also claims that it is the theme of the Republican party. Due to the difficult relation between Trump and truth, you better check with @GOP how true that is.

 

@MarianKamensky1 explains the real objective of Donald Trump's toxic wall project: Divide the USA and rule.

Source: https://t.co/F217UgvZ6J

More: https://t.co/fFDEkQifmM pic.twitter.com/gZfniJL1Zp

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 24, 2019

In 2014, Trumps spin doctors chose “wall” as a mnemonic device designed to help Trump to polarize and divide US voters. Poisoning the discourse helps Trump and his party to avoid to give reason for their claims. Today Trump and the GOP play the media quite successfully with this toxic tool.

A strange interview shows how GOP communicators try to control the usage of language. The GOP communication seemingly doesn’t feel to comfortable with the term “wall” anymore. While Trump, the Republican President, is using “Wall” or “WALL” ad nauseam, Kellyanne Conway in an Orwellian attempt of speech control doesn’t want journalists to use that term.

An exchange between my colleague @abbydphillip and WH counselor Kellyanne Conway on whether to it’s okay to call the president’s wall a wall. It’s worth reading all the way through. pic.twitter.com/NORWvA7K6F

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 23, 2019


Alice-themed Brexit Caricatures

Lewis Carroll's Alice again being evoked to make sense of #Brexit by @fotoole, interpreting the Sun title page after the #MeaningfulVote "a lot of frantically anarchic running overseen by a defunct creature, the Brextinct dodo." – Not the first May Dodo! https://t.co/wHVVvrgRO6 pic.twitter.com/NibbRndPtP

— Franziska Kohlt (@frankendodo) January 18, 2019

On the occasion of the renewed #brexitchaos let me remind you of the frabjous Brexit-Jabberwocky by the fantastic @JohnMinnion https://t.co/l67KR1sM4n #AliceInWonderland #Brexitland @madeleinakay @luciendyoung pic.twitter.com/WIeH2HMVGH

— Franziska Kohlt (@frankendodo) November 15, 2018

There have in fact been a few great Alice-inspired Brexit caricatures and parodies, here's 'Alice in Sunderland', on Brexit and Nissan's super-plant plan, by Martin Rowsonhttps://t.co/VeHM2nyTNe pic.twitter.com/N9MVntqyK6

— Franziska Kohlt (@frankendodo) November 16, 2018

"Down the Brexit-Hole" was also a common theme, here by Ingram Pinn for @FT https://t.co/Vcne2eVLti pic.twitter.com/mIbu4Ig6EO

— Franziska Kohlt (@frankendodo) November 16, 2018

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